Engineering for Reliability

Mark has been a reliability professional since 1998, delivering reliability improvements, as a senior manager and engineer to the automotive, rail, nuclear, construction equipment, vacuum pump, blue chip manufacturing and high technology research sectors mainly in new product Introduction.

Mark also has experience in asset management and project management as well as design and development. Problem solving is Mark's specialism at all stages of the product life cycle. Mark facilitates and trains individuals and teams in problem solving techniques as well as root cause analysis (such as FTA), FMEA and other Six Sigma techniques to improve new products and resolve field failure issues.

Mark is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the IMechE, Member of the Institute of Asset Management and Affiliate of the Chartered Management Institute.

Bob Wilson is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer having served an apprenticeship covering both mechanical and electrical engineering.  He was enrolled as a Member of the IMechE in 1971 and a Member of the Chartered Management Institute (formerly BIM/IIM) in 1986/7.

His engineering career has included research and development, design, production, applications and project management on commercial and defence programmes in both Industry and the Civil Service.

Prior to retirement in 2004, he was a Senior R&M Engineer within the Defence Logistics Organisation of the UK MoD. He supported the introduction of the reliability case and also pioneered root cause analysis as part of the MoD reliability tool kit.

He is now a general consultant operating under the business name of Tridiam Services including accident investigation and similar activities relating to safety and reliability.

In his 12 years with Conekt, and as a Chartered Engineer with Society of Environmental Engineers, Chris Macdonald-Bradley has been technical lead to several new-product development programmes which have required EMC, climatic and dynamic testing.

He is currently leading environmental testing work for two TSB programmes for advanced electric vehicle technologies, in addition to ongoing support to the EMC and Materials Testing groups. He was previously a Research Fellow in Computational Electro-magnetics, at University of Warwick.