The RELIABILITY Conference 2018 | Reliabilityweb | 23 April 2018 | South Point Hotel, Casino and Spa, 9777 Las Vegas Blvd S Las Vegas, Nevada 89183 USA

The RELIABILITY® Conference Featuring Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things for Asset Management is produced by Reliabilityweb.com® and Uptime® Magazine, names you trust to bring you the best information available.

Innovation in asset management, reliability and condition monitoring is happening at a breakneck pace. As an asset manager, reliability leader or condition monitoring professional, you have to be well-informed to maintain your organization as a viable market competitor.

The Reliabilityweb team travels the world to meet the best subject-matter experts, practitioners and best-selling authors to ensure your time is spent productively.

WHY ATTEND?
.Earn PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION
.Learn how to translate the ASSET MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK into business process
.Learn the new UPTIMEREG; ELEMENTS™ VIBRATION DIAGNOSTIC FRAMEWORK
.Learn how your data can reveal reliability insights using ANALYTICS SOFTWARE
.Learn DEFECT ELIMINATION with the Manufacturing Game®
.Plan new ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS to meet your objectives
.Discover new ideas to ADVANCE RELIABILITY
.Participate in the Women in Reliability and Asset Management ROUNDTABLE DINNER
.Discover new innovation and products at the SOLUTION AWARDS CEREMONY.

RELIABILITY FOR EVERYONE
Anyone with an interest in...

.Asset Management
.Reliability
.Leadership
.Condition Monitoring
.Internet of Things
.Developing a proactive culture
.Change management
.Problem solving

2018 Speakers

Maura Abad
Director of the Reliability Leadership Institute and the Global Relationship Manager for Reliabilityweb.com

Laith Alfaqih
Extensive experience in strategic asset management, reliability, front-end planning, risk management, decision making, business case evaluations, root cause analysis, sustainability, lifecycle costing / total cost of ownership, and information management systems.

Yousef Alshaheen
Rotating equipment Engineer at the National Methanol Company (IBN SINA)

Dan Ambre
Mechanical Engineer and founder of Full Spectrum Diagnostics, PLLC a Full Service Predictive Maintenance Consulting company.

Rajiv Anand
Founder and CEO of Quartic.

David Anderson
Director of Score Diagnostics Limited

Joe Anderson
Associate Director of Asset Management at B. Braun Medical

David Armstrong
Service Director, Reliability and Integrity Management at Bentley Systems

Kehinde Babatunde
Inspection Superintendent and Reliability Manager for Notore Chemical Industries Ltd, Onne – Nigeria

Béchir Badri (Ph.D; M.Ing)
Cofounder of BETAVIB

Jason Ballentine
Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional

Mark Barnes
Vice President of the Des-Case Lubrication Transformation Services team

Frederic Baudart
Lead Product Specialist for Fluke Corp.

Aaron Beazley
Engineering professional with over 25 years experience in industrial maintenance and reliability engineering

Joe Belland
Isograph’s technical lead for support and training in North America

Noah Bethel
Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional

Matthew Bollom
Product Manager for NI InsightCM™ and monitoring at National Instruments

Michael Brind
Experienced Engineer, qualified to HNC Mechanical Engineering, Full Tech Motor Vehicle Engineering and ISO 18436 Category 3 Condition Monitoring PCN no 300971

Mike Brooks
Sr. Business Consultant at AspenTech; an expert on Asset Performance Management

Brian Burns
Asset Manager and Open Market Director / Manager of Industrial equipment at Evraz NA

Randy Carlisle
Certifications/Specialization:
AMP Certified Reliability Leader
Taproot RCFA Leader
ISO Internal Auditor

Jim Carrel
Certified Reliability Leader and a Category III Vibration Analyst

Carles CG
Data Scientist at Reliable Dynamics

Dave Corelli
Director of Application Engineering for PCB Piezotronics (IMI Sensors Division)

Pierre de Lamberterie
Works for the Emerson, International Center of Excellence in Santiago - Chile

Gabriel Delgado
Senior Technical Instructor responsible for the implementation and development of five Apprenticeships and Career Development training programs in maintenance.

Alan Dellinger
Formerly speaker for the ExxonMobil Maintenance Symposiums.

Grant Dennler
Working with PRUFTECHNIK’s laser alignment systems since 1994 when he joined WildCAT Precision Measurements, a sales partner for PRUFTECHNIK’s Canadian Distributor.

Randy Doucet
Chairman of the SRS Predictive Maintenance Technology group (PdMTG)

Glenn Eyler
Certificates and Achievements:
Certified Professional Maintenance Manager (CPMM)
-NASA Group Achievement Award for SHUTTLE OPERATION SUPPORT
-NASA Extra Mile Award
-Siemens Maser Operator Certification
-Vibration Institute IMV/BMV
-EDI/IBM Maximo 7.5 Implementation
-EDI/IBM Maximo 7.5 Foundations

Rick Fadeley
Filmwerks International’s UPS Product Manager based in Rocky Point, North Carolina

Blair Fraser
Certified Reliability Leader (CRL) and Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP)

Carlos Garza
LATAM Business Development Manager

Mark Galley
Founder ThinkReliability in Houston in 2000.

Marie Getsug
Program Manager in the Asset Management Group (AMG) with Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc.

Glenn Giesregen
Plant Engineering Manager at the 3M Menomonie, WI plant.

Stuart Gillen
Director of Business Development at SparkCognition.

Will Goetz
Business development and marketing leader for Emerson’ Reliability Consulting.

Ramesh Gulati
A world-renowned leader in the maintenance, reliability, and asset management field and the author of more than four books, including the award-winning Maintenance & Reliability Best Practices.

Wekianos Hailu
Senior Engineer at Clark County water Reclamation District.

Jim Hall
Executive director at The Ultrasound Institute (TUI)

Jeff Hay
CEO of RDI Technologies which he founded in 2013.

Rene Hernandez
Regional Vice President for Region - 6 of the Association for Facilities Engineering (AFE).
President of AFE Chapter 38 (Orange County, CA).

Michael Holloway
Manager of Strategic Accounts and External Training for ALS Tribology.

Anthony Honaker
Vice President of Product Strategy and Development

Paul Hughes
Director, Water Solutions for PinnacleART

David Jahnig
Senior Advisor for Capital Projects focusing on Resources customers (Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Natural Resources, and Utilities).

Nick Jize
Co-founder of JMS Software, a company that produces RCM software solutions.

Robert Jones
Certifications:
-Vibration Analyst Level II
-ASNT Certified Acoustic Emissions, Level II
-Commercial pilot, multi-engine, instrument. Certificate #2183124

Shayne Jones
O&M manager, maintenance of a large coal fired power plant which has operated in the top quartile of comparable plants the past two decades.

Robert Kalwarowsky
Joined Fluid Life in the spring of 2014 and currently focuses on failure analyses, the oil analysis expert system & various reliability engineering projects, including the impact of Tier 4 Diesel Engine design on oil samples.

Tony Kashani
Senior executive with over 20 years of experience in regulated industries, life sciences sectors.

Randy Keener
President of Torq Engineering located in Denver Colorado.

Abhinav Khushraj
Head of product and engineering function at Petasense.

Andrey Kostyukov
Publisher of leading magazines such as "Oil & Gas Journal Russia“, “Eurasia Processing”.

Peter Kung
President of QPS Photronics Inc

John Langskov
Maintenance leader in nuclear power generation.

Bob Lees
Certified adult instructor, a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP), a Certified Reliability Leader (CRL), a Red Seal Millwright, Class 3 stationary steam engineer, Cat III vibration analyst, and a Level 2 certified ultrasound inspector.

Dave McCarthy
Senior Director of Products at Bsquare Corporation

Vestanna McGuigan
Reliability Engineer with a strong passion for reducing maintenance losses using proven technical tools to develop maintenance strategies.

Robert McKenna
Maintenance Technical Supervisor for Dana Holding Corporation, Light Vehicle Division.

Lee McKinley
Head of Engineering and Projects at the Moses Lake Carbon Fiber Facility.

Scotty McLean
Certified Reliability Leader, a Certified RCM2 Facilitator with the Aladon network and holds a CMRP certification from the Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (SMRP).

Sean Mullan
Certified Reliability Leader, a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional, and has an MBA with a concentration in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the University of St. Thomas.

Sean O'Connor
Reliability Engineer for JLL, a commercial real estate company.

Terrence O'Hanlon
Asset management leader specializing in reliability and operational excellence.

Mohamed Okasha
Assistant manager, Asset integrity planning in EgyptianLNG (Liquified natural gas plant in Egypt).

Greg Perry
​Certified​ ​Reliability​ ​Leader​ ​and​ ​seasoned CMMS​ ​practitioner

Pedro Portillo
Experience for 11 years on projects such as Goldcorp, Coeur, Frisco in areas of Reliability, Planning and Scheduling maintenance both mobile equipment, and process completion and mineral processing, classification, thickening, transportation by caterpillars or bands, vibration systems , screening, pumps and rotating equipment, hydraulic systems and electric train, gears and wear systems, handling maintenance plans in the short and long term, project management and development stages.

Shivnath Ram
Head of Asset Reliability and Asset Management (ARAM) of a 6 MTPA integrated Steel Plant responsible for enhancing Plant Capacity Utilization through Reliable Performance of Plant Machinery and production facilities.

John Reeve
Frequent speaker at asset management venues; has numerous articles published in trade magazines; and has a soon-to-be-released book called, Failure Modes to Failure Codes.

Nancy Regan
Founder and president of The Force, Inc., a firm specializing in the application of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM).

Dave Reiber
Leader in Enterprise Asset Management and Asset Condition Monitoring as the former Global Training Lead for Enterprise Asset Management & Predictive Maintenance Business Lead for General Motors.

Rosa Reissmann
COO for Reissco Corp, software and consulting company based on Orlando, Florida.

Chuck Requet
Sr. Mechanical Engineer at LGandE and KU Energy, LLC.

Timothy Rice
His interests lay in Asset Management processes with a focus on Defect Elimination, and Asset Tactics Development.

Tim Rohrer
Founder and President of Exiscan LLC -- manufacturer of industrial electrical safety products including infrared windows, visual inspection windows and ultrasound ports.

Carmen Romero
Has been in the pharmaceutical industry for over 20 years, in Maintenance Operations, Project Management, Reliability Excellence, and Lean Manufacturing.

Alan Ross
Vice President of Reliability at SD Myers, Inc. in Tallmadge, Ohio.

Gerry Roston
CEO of Civionics, Inc., a University of Michigan startup whose wireless Percēv IIoT System helps manufacturers minimize downtime; and as an Executive‐in‐Residence at TechTown Detroit, where he helps entrepreneurs transition their ideas into sustainable businesses.

Walter Sanford
Vice President of Solutions for Pinnacle Advanced Reliability Technologies (PinnacleART).

Joel Sendra
Certified Reliability Leader
Role with AssetAnalytix: Principal Consultant

Stan Shoun
Vice President of Workforce Development and Continuing Education at Central Virginia Community College (CVCC) in Lynchburg, Va.

David Siegel
Predictronics’ Chief Technology Officer

Jeff Smith
Senior advisor for the Association for Maintenance Professionals (AMP) and served on the USA tag for ISO 55000.

Jeff Smith
Corporate IoT Business Development Manager at Parker-Hannifin.

Ed Spence
Independent Sales Representative and Consultant for CBM products and services, and evangelist for MEMS Accelerometer technology for CBM.

Bhanu Srilla
Director of Product Marketing at Grace Engineered Products, Inc.

Keith Staton
Reliability Director for Weyerhaeuser Wood Products.

Goran Surina
leader for the group of people who are in charge of developing maintenance reliability in our refineries and petrochemical companies.

Gregory Thompson
Principal Electrical Engineer & Senior Logistics Engineer-ANDROMEDA SYSTEMS, INC.

Robin Thompson
Chief Executive Officer of North Carolina-based Sensei Solutions LLC.

Luis Alberto Tilleria
Certified as Maintenance and Reliability Professional CMRP
Certified as Six Sigma Green Belt; Member of the Institute of Asset Management IAM.

Sergio Tuberquia
Founder & CEO of Equipcast Inc.

Joseph Uwoajega
Field Service Engineer/Team Lead for Nigerian Agip Oil Company for the past three years with production capacity of 75,000 bbl of crude oil and 475 mmscf of gas production per day.

Dries Van Loon
Application engineer involving high-end troubleshooting using on and offline vibration measurements.

Lucas Vann
Manager of Bioprocess Engineering and Automation at the Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center at North Carolina State University.

Pablo Vera
Software Engineer and Data Scientist on International Center of Excellence for Emerson Electric (CEI)

Xiaozhou Wang
Chief Data Scientist & Co-Founder of Quartic.

David Wilbur
Fighter pilot and commanding officer in the U.S. Marine Corp.

Bill Wilder
Founder and director of the Life Cycle Institute.

George Williams
Director of Asset Management for B Braun Medical US.

Rudy Wodrich
Electrical Engineer whose career has revolved around designing electrical distribution systems for industrial, commercial and power generation applications for both high efficiency and reliability.

Shane Yount
Author, speaker and President of Competitive Solutions, Inc.

Alain Naets
General manager of PRUFTECHNIK NV in Antwerpen and Rotterdam.

2018 Sponsors

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• ARMS Reliability

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Acuren
• Allied Reliability
• Bentley
• CTC Technologies
• Des-Case
• Emerson
• eMaint/Fluke
• Pruftechnik

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Asset Analytix
• Cohesive Solutions
• Dynamics Scientific Production Center USA, Inc•
• IRISS
• JMS Software
• Lubrication Engineers
• Ludeca
• RDI Technologies
• SD Myers
• SEC
• SKF
• Technical Associates Charlotte
• Triad Unlimited

STANDARD SPONSORS:
• Aladon
• Exiscan
• Grace Egineered Products
• IMI Sensors
• ITT Gould Pumps
• National Instruments
• PdMA
• Semeq
• Vibration Institute