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World Class Team:
Our worldwide Alliance Team Members (ATM) are all successful companies; with some being semi-competitors and many as individual sole proprietors. They make up a World Class team of professionals to help your journey toward reliability and maintenance excellence. We have no objection from you contacting them directly for support.
Today’s Best Benchmarking & Assessment Tools:
Our overall service level covers all 27 best practices from today's best benchmarking tool. The Scoreboard for Maintenance Excellence for plant maintenance. Our four other Scoreboards include: The Scoreboard for Facilities Management Excellence, The Scoreboard for Fleet Management Excellence, and The Scoreboard for Healthcare Facilities Management Excellence.
Focused & Experienced:
Our Alliance Team Process allows TMEII to build a very focused and experienced Alliance Team for not only consulting to plant and facility maintenance operation but to almost all types of maintenance. Other maintenance areas include fleet, healthcare facilities, golf courses and the "green industry".
TMEII feels strongly that there are really no competitors in the reliability and maintenance excellence consulting and training business. The reason being is that "there is so much worldwide need and so little time" with relatively few qualified resources available.
NAME DIRECTORY of CURRENT ALLIANCE TEAM MEMBERS (ATM)
ALLIANCE TEAM MEMBERS
 Ralph W. (Pete) Peters, Raleigh, NC (ATM): Ralph 'Pete' Peters is the Founder/President of The Maintenance Excellence Institute International is an author, trainer and motional speaker for the maintenance professional. His experience of over 40 years has included being a manufacturing plant manager at two sites; director of facilities management and extensive maintenance experience within the US Army. This began in Vietnam (1970) and with the US Army Corps of Engineers building what is now called, the National Highway. He consults and provides maintenance best practice training in over 30 countries, has written maintenance chapters in five handbooks as well as a book on Maximizing the Value of Your CMMS. Also he has written two major books; Maintenance Benchmarking & Best Practices for McGraw-Hill’s professional book division and Reliable Maintenance Planning, Estimating and Scheduling from Elsevier’s Gulf Publishing Division. Pete's positive approach and his experience from manufacturing plant management and consulting, allows him to be an excellent coach for today’s top leaders, maintenance leaders and craft leaders. His worldwide PRIDE-in-Maintenance initiative is highlighted in his book from Elsevier; Reliable Maintenance Planning, Estimating and Scheduling. And PRIDE-in-Maintenance focused upon and dedicated to the craft work forces is his next book in progress. Many key topics from these universal books are included in all of his worldwide TrueWorkShopsTM. (Read more).
Pete is also Co-Founder of Adventurers for Special Needs a registered non-profit organization with his youngest son Brian Peters (ATM).
 IN MEMORY: Robert E. "Bob" Gaskins - Raleigh, NC (ATM): Bob,Vice President of TMEII and President of The Vision Team, his own company. My long time friend and business partner, Robert E."Bob" Gaskins passed away peacefully on February 6, 2015 with all of his family by his bedside. For those of you that knew Bob, you saw a man with a positive commitment to maintenance, life, his family and his faith. Bob shared his faith by being a doer of good deeds for others. For example one day Bob showed up at my home with a nice handle that he installed in our bathroom so that my 101 year old mother-in-law could pull herself up much easier. (Read More)
 Franklin Takyi - Kumasi, Ghana (ATM) and VP-West Africa - (Western Countries): Franklin is an experienced and successful entrepreneur with a strong knowledge of financial management, business plan development and is recognized as a very effective and entertaining motivational speaker. He will be TMEII's primary business developer for Africa countries west of Ghana and also serve as key business developer in Ghana’s fast growing economy. Also, Franklin has experience in making and giving sound investment advice with a solid knowledge base in maintenance, manufacturing, project management and business appraisal/improvement techniques. His knowledge of insurance, governmental and trade regulations plus Ghana’s economic development and Investment opportunities make him an excellent partner to foreigners who want to invest in Ghana. TMEII is very pleased to have an Alliance Team Member in Ghana; one who has begun excellent business development activities. He can be contacted directly at: franklinowusutakyi@gmail.com or Franklin@Pride-in-Maintenance.com
 Marion Hateka - Accra, Ghana (ATM) and VP Africa - Marion serves as Director of Training for Maintenance Excellence and overall business development in Africa. She is a graduate of the Global Institute of Aviation (Aviance) and a owner of www.skyramghtravels.com and at www.facebook.com/skyramghtravels.tour. This combination of experience allows her to support TMEII conference production from start to finish with support to each attendee or in house client. Marion has also begun consulting business development in Nigeria and has an excellent practical background, sound business knowledge and personality for TMEII’s PRIDE-in-Maintenance philosophy and team-based approach. Marion can be contacted directly at: Marion.Hateka@gmail.com
 Larbi Masmoudi - Batna, Algeria (ATM) and VP North Africa: Larbi is a Mechanical Engineer graduate from the Algerian Petroleum Institute with over 19 years experience within the Oil & Gas industry.
His experience as a maintenance and reliability professional has been with Sonatrach, the National Oil & Gas Company of Algeria as a mechanical engineer and head of the mechanical maintenance and with the SonaHess Company (J.V between Sonatrach & Hess Ltd) as a head of planning. Also he served with ENI Gas (Libya) as a planning and scheduling engineer and with Offshore Design Limited (ODL) to upgrade and rebuild CMMS (MAXIMO). He has led successful implementation of MAXIMO versions 4.1 & 5.2 and then 6.0 with a wide range of maintenance best practice knowledge.
Larbi has been one to explore and evaluate innovative technologies, technical methods and good maintenance practices and to real solutions to management for implementation and measurement of results.
 Stephen Matthews: An Alliance Team Member, is a bilingual (English, French) lean manufacturing, operations, maintenance & reliability process improvement specialist based in Montreal. He has over 38 years of professional experience and has worked in a wide variety of industries in Canada, USA and Russia, in engineering, supervisory, management, training, facilitating and consulting roles. He has extensive experience with asset intensive industries including forest products, pulp and paper, railroad, metal & mining. His experience has included Operations, Maintenance & Reliability improvement projects in: forest products, pulp & paper, packaging & printing (Tembec, Kruger, Neenah Paper, RockTenn, Quebecor); open pit & U/G mining (Ekati, Diavik, Teck, Rio Tinto, Goldcorp, Arcelor Mittal, Taseko, Potash Corp, Vale); rail equipment (CN Rail, Via Rail, Amtrak); beverage & cosmetics (Tyler Mountain Water, Esteè Lauder). He has worked with on consulting projects with Pöyry, Fluid Life, SKF, Arms Reliability, Idcon and Hitachi, Argo and BCG). He has worked as Director of projects & supply chain management at Stuart Energy. Director of planning at former CN Rail Maintenance Repair Shops, Director of ERP system implementation at Cogicom, and in Engineering and Manufacturing with roles with General Electric, Dominion Engineering, Kvaerner Hymac, Oerlikon Aerospace and SR Telecom. He has a Bachelor of Engineering Science from Western University and a Diploma in Advanced Production and Inventory Management Dawson College. He can be contacted directly at 514-229-4055.
 Murray Wiseman - Montreal Canada (ATM): An Alliance Team Member that innovates in maintenance engineering, management, and consulting, with particular focus on using maintenance and operational data to achieve reliability. He founded and operated the world's first web expert system based commercial oil analysis laboratory. As a principal consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers' Centre of Excellence in Physical Asset Management he specialized in condition-based maintenance optimization. He is a RCM practitioner. He leads projects in condition-based maintenance optimization that achieve cost effective, safe increased equipment availability. He developed, in collaboration with Carbones de Cerrejón, the groundbreaking Living RCM (LRCM) process designed to achieve reliability from data. He is President of LivingReliability Inc., a software and consulting company dedicated to strategic reliability information and knowledge management. Murray holds a B. Eng. Mech. degree from McGill University. Murray's articles and videos can be seen at www.livingreliability.com/en. His company can be contacted directly at 438-792-3756.
 Livingston N.C. Obasi - Lagos, Nigeria (ATM) and VP-West Africa (Eastern Countries):
He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Transport and Logistics (Fleet Management) from Institute of Transport Administration (IoTA) Nigeria obtained in 2013. He also holds another Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration obtained in 2008 from Lagos State University, Ojo Lagos Nigeria. His interests are in Facilities and Fleet Management, Transport & Logistics and is happily married with children. He worked with Continental Shipyard Limited Apapa Dockyard Lagos Nigeria for 10 years as a Human Resources Officer before resigning to pursue greener pastures. He worked with Trans-Nationwide Express Plc, Lagos, Nigeria as the Admin & Facility Coordinator, where he garnered more practical experience in Facilities management within the built environment. Presently he holds membership affiliations with; Institute of Transport and Administration (IoTA) Nigeria, Certified Institute of Shipping Nigeria, Nigerian Institute of Training and Development (NITAD), Petroleum products Marketing Professionals of Nigeria, and Nigerian Institute of Management.
 Dr. Arkady Cherepanov - Moscow, Russia, (ATM): Dr. Arkady brings a diverse professional background of technical experience to TMEII. And he has a very practical solutions based approach to challenging technical problems. He has an extensive background in construction, commissioning and reconstruction of chemical, food manufacturing and power plants as a project manager. With Wimm-Bill Dann/Pepsico, he has served as Maintenance and Utilities Manager in Moscow, a dairy and beverages company with 37 plants for the execution of Supply Chain Excellence in Maintenance and Utilities area for all company plants. He has been Chief Engineer for other large operations such as Heineken Russia’s ten breweries.
Engineering infrastructure projects have included construction of electrical substations; 110 kV in the center of Saint Petersburg, 10 kV in Novosibirsk, steam power boilers in TEC-7 (SPb) and in Amur-Pivo Brewery, Patra Brewery, PIT Kaliningrad Brewery and the construction of a water treatment plant in Khabarovsk and waste water plants for Henkel in Leningrad region, for PIT Brewery in Novotroitsk and for Heineken Brewery in Ekaterinburg. In addition, he has managed numerous other projects with experience in repair and maintenance and contracting of maintenance for Lenenergo power plants and transmission networks.
Arkady has more than 30 published articles and patents that deal with energy and other resources conservation in chemical manufacturing and practical experience in management SHE systems in Heineken, Henkel and other companies. His career includes practical experience in managing technical engineering services in large multi-plant operations.
He received his PhD from the Research Institute of Rubber Industry (Moscow) and post graduate Chemical Engineering degree from Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technology and his Marketing Management Degree from University of Fine Mechanic and Optic (Saint-Petersburg). He holds the Professional Project Manager Certification from the Project Management Institute (Moscow charter).
 Dennis Delsanter Inc. - The Villages, Florida (ATM): Dennis provides over 25 years experience in the design and implementation of reliability maintenance and manufacturing process work management systems. Some examples: With client participation Dennis has led the development of management systems for warehousing, preventive/predictive maintenance, operator based maintenance, planning, estimating, scheduling, and asset management. Dennis also provides the necessary skills training and management development to ensure sustainability. This requires establishing relationship of trust with those who will be the most affected by change. Typical assignments, resulting in increased reliability, work efficiency and profitability, have included: Exxon Mobil, Ashland Marathon, Koch Industries, Hercules Chemical, American Cyanamid, Beliot Manufacturing plus other companies in the paper making, food processing, steel, pharmaceutical and automotive sectors. Prior to his current career as a consultant, Dennis spent 20 years in all levels of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing. He has experience is in both human and veterinary products. Held positions in quality control, research, and manufacturing. His last position was Director of Operations for a mid-western pharmaceutical company.
Bob Doby - Infrared Testing Services Inc., Raleigh, NC (ATM): ITS provides the highest quality thermographic services utilizing the best resolution infrared cameras operated by certified thermographers at competitive prices. For selected Scoreboard assessments TMEII will include a free site thermo survey. The ITS level of personalized service is like having this important predictive maintenance technology right inside your own shop space.
 Dr. Diego Galar - Spain and Luela, Sweden (ATM): Prof. Diego Galar has a Msc in Telecommunications and a PhD degree in Manufacturing from the University of Saragossa. He has been Professor in several universities, including the University of Saragossa or the European University of Madrid, a researcher in the department of design and manufacturing engineering from the University of Saragossa, a researcher in I3A, Institute for engineering research in Aragon, director of academic innovation and subsequently pro-vice-chancellor. He has also been visiting Professor in the University of Valencia, Polytechnic of Braganza (Portugal), Valley University (Mexico) and NIU (USA).
In industry, he has been also technological director and CBM manager. He has authored more than hundred journal and conference papers, books and technical reports in the field of maintenance.
Currently, he is working in the Division of Operation and Maintenance in LTU, Luleå University of Technology, where he is coordinating several EU-FP7 projects related to different maintenance aspects and is also involved in the SKF UTC centre located in Lulea focused in SMART bearings.
Dave Hendrickson - Anaheim, CA (ATM): Dave brings expert knowledge for MRO warehouse modernization from a "green field" to a modernization of an existing storeroom site. He also brings expert knowledge about RFID, bar coding, materials handling/storage equipment and warehouse, inventory management systems and the art and science of layout planning. His implementations have generated real return on investments for many large and small organizations within the public and private sectors.
 Khaled Kamal - Sky Tech, Cairo, Egypt (ATM): Khaled is the Owner and Managing Director of Sky Tech- Operation & Maintenance Technology Resource Center. Sky Tech’s mission is to provide industries with the latest in physical asset management solutions, industrial management courses, consulting services, and technology tools to help optimize and efficiently manage their physical assets. Khaled Kamal brings over 20 years of multi-faceted technical and managerial experience in implementing technology consulting, project management, business process development, structure re-engineering, and optimization, automation engineering and technical services with knowledge of business objectives, work-flow and processes for operations, IT projects, engineering, procurements, financial, administration, operation & maintenance materials. Extensive experience with successful implementation of CMMS/EAM during the past 20 years throughout the Middle East.
 Paul Klein, BSc., Met. Eng, MBA and Elia Schwartz, Ph.D., ME, PSE Chairman and Chief Technology Officer - Toronto, Canada (ATMs): Paul Klein is the CEO of Predictive Systems Engineering, LTD; Toronto, Canada. Paul takes part in 34 groups of professional associations in different aspects of industrial maintenance. He has been associated with Predictive Systems Engineering for the past 8 years and contributed to its development. Early on in the development of PSE he recognized the essential need for advanced online automated diagnostics and prognostics.
Mr. Klein received a BSc degree, first class in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand and an MBA from the University of South Africa in Pretoria.
Remy Kolb - RMK Maintenance Innovations, LLC., Charlotte, NC (ATM): Remy has over 30 years of practical maintenance, engineering and operations management responsibilities for large operations in both the maintenance and manufacturing fields. He has helped numerous operations achieve success in plant, fleet and facilities maintenance operations. He is currently on contract to assist a major brick manufacturer with their maintenance improvement plan which entails infrared inspections for 15 plants and performing connected horsepower surveys. He has a Level I certificate from Snell Infrared and has performed certified maintenance and overhaul on a wide range of air craft around the world.
 Joel Leonard & SkillTV.net - Chicago, IL & Asheboro, NC (ATM): We are pleased to have Joel Leonard both as a Recommended Resource and as a formal Alliance Team Member. Joel Leonard nicknamed ‘Maintenance Evangelist’, is Chairman of the National Defense Manufacturing Workforce Committee in the US. He also works with SkillTV. A former vice-president of the Association for Facilities Engineering, Joel is taking the lead internationally in identifying, explaining and helping to solve the problem. His creative strategies to build awareness have included holding job fairs specific to the maintenance industry, writing articles, and public speaking from major conventions to high school classes, writing songs, developing an on-line TV network, and now writing books. As a result of his efforts, Joel was appointed to the United States Council on Competitiveness, a national think-tank whose purpose is to work with legislators and the White House to inform policy decisions that lead to effective strategies for economic development. Internationally, corporate and governmental leaders are seeking Joel's advice and he has been interviewed on National Public Radio and CNBC. He works in the trenches to build pipelines of qualified skilled technicians, by consulting with community colleges and workforce development boards Visit SkillTV.net and see how professionals are solving the maintenance skills shortage. Watch videos, listen to podcasts, and read articles that reveal the depth of this crisis ... and what you can do about it.
In order to thrive in the hyper-competitive global marketplace, countries have to upgrade their manufacturing sector and build strong, agile, smart talent pool pipelines. If you haven't already noticed, the maintenance industry is fast losing its most qualified and reliable workers – through retirement and attrition – and is not replacing them as quickly as required to avert a full-on maintenance crisis. Joel Leonard is one of the few people who have made it a personal mission to turn industry recruitment around. His zeal has earned him the nickname ‘maintenance evangelist’, and he plans to make all media outlets his pulpit for improving the image of this shrinking industry. If New Zealand embraces and develops strong, deep skilled maintenance technician talent pools, he strongly believes that will provide New Zealand a competitive advantage. You are invited to contact Joel at Joel@SkillTV.net anytime. And as Joel often says, “It is Better to Prepare and Prevent than to Repair and Repent.”
 IN MEMORY:Roland Newhouse - Newhouse Associates, Athens, GA (ATM): A long time personal friend, coworker from Tompkins Associates Inc. and one of TMEII’s first Alliance Team Members passed away. Roland Newhouse who lived in Athens, Georgia put up a great battle when diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas and was given only four months to live. But he fought the good fight and passed away October 7, 2013 at home surrounded by his loving wife Kay, son Donald and daughter Andrea. He will sincerely be missed by TMEII and his many friends and relatives.
Tom Rhyne - Rhyne & Associates, Apex, NC (ATM): Tom has had a professional career of 25+ years, began specializing in procurement and materials management for a large manufacturing operation. He expanded his professional skills base by serving in materials management positions involving large scale purchasing, inventory management, warehousing, accounting, special projects and management. Experience includes large and small power plants, electrical and steam plant generation, fleet maintenance operations, university and state government purchasing and warehousing. Tom also has broad CMMS experience beginning at defining functionality needs through successful implementations. He has integrated material identification, nomenclature standards, storeroom best practices and MRO warehousing modernization to generate well documented savings and regulatory compliance of MRO materials in NC’s largest nuclear power plant.
 Sergio Rossi - RP4M>, Mansfield, TX (ATM): Sergio founded RPM4M in 2000, after having worked as a plant engineer, a maintenance manager, a corporate reliability manager and a senior engineer in the food, plastics, and aerospace industries.
He learned, hands-on, how to implement Continuous Improvement Processes such as TPM, RCM, OBM, and PdM. After experiencing these implementations, he saw the need to simplify, adapt, and improve existing approaches while creating new processes exclusively developed for solving all machine related issues.
His vision was to become a complete and single provider of an integrated maintenance, reliability, and performance solution for minimizing reactive maintenance losses in machine-critical manufacturing industries. Finite Element Manufacturing (FEMsm), a process proven to minimize downtime, was the final result of his development efforts.
Sergio holds a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado, several patents, and speaks fluent Spanish. If you would like to contact Sergio directly he can be reached by phone at 817-937-8205 or via email at sergio@rp4m.com.
 Elia Schwartz,Ph.D., ME, and Paul Klein,BSc., Met. Eng, MBA; Toronto, Canada (ATMs): Elia Schwartz is PSE Chairman and Chief Technology officer for Predictive Systems Engineering, LTD. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and has taught at different colleges of the prestigious Technion University in Haifa. Israel. Elia has published 15 papers and holds several patents. For the last twenty years he was engaged in Israeli High Tech Industry. He served as a General Manager and Project Leader in Binam Systems, an Israeli industrial control company. He is a cofounder of Predictive Systems Engineering Ltd., and coauthor of PSE’s patents. His research interest involves the signal processing, artificial intelligence, compressor dynamics and real time measurement of rotating and machinery parameters. His industrial and academic activity gives him a unique insight into the relationship between mechanical components in rotating machinery. The last 20 years of R&D and consulting have provided Elia with expertise in the field of smart diagnostics sensors, interpretation of machine health signatures and prognostics of machine remained life cycle. Elia’s specialty is automation of the diagnostics and prognostics of industrial and commercial equipment. He spent the last ten years developing the software and hardware Internet platform for automated remote diagnostics & prognostics monitoring of equipment, which makes it possible to cost effectively maintain equipment only as required. Elia is the leader of a team of talented and experienced scientists and engineers that works together to convert these ideas into commercial reality.
 Thomas Stuenkel - Bratislava, Slovakia & Panama City, Republic of Panama (ATM): Thomas brings outstanding knowledge to support our Effective Shutdown, Turnaround, Outage Management (STO) session with over 20 years of work experience in commissioning and start-up in different industries.
He works as a commissioning engineer and commissioning manager in water treatment plants, polypropylene plants, propane dehydrogenation plants, sulfuric acid plants, coal fired power stations and solar-grade silicon production facilities.
Thomas has as well extensive knowledge in document management; in material management, in project management and many different control systems.
As an Alliance Team Member, Thomas provides you with an excellent commissioning & start-up training, at the place of your choice, worldwide. His business as The Commissioning Coach and his company Commissioning Coaching Consulting, Inc. brings great practical experience to this new course for TMEII. Thomas holds a degree in industrial electronics from the University of Applied Science in Eisleben, Germany.
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