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.

Kevin is Chair of the IMechE’s Engineering for Reliability Work Group and Network Rail’s Subject Matter Expert in Design For Reliability. He is an IMechE Fellow who gained his passion for continuous improvement at Ford Motor Company, where he was Quality Supervisor for Dagenham Body and Assembly Plant. His MSc in Advanced Automotive Engineering gained him a patent for an intelligent system which identified squeak and rattle issues using frequency finger-printing in 1996. As part of Ford’s world class Engineering Quality Improvement Programme, he trained and supported engineers and managers in Total Quality Management tools such as Statistical Process Control, Design of Experiments, Potential Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Problem Solving, Quality Function Deployment and Robustness. This allowed him to build an extensive portfolio of successful projects, including winning Ford’s prestigious President’s Customer Driven Quality Award twice. Kevin was on the first waves of Ford’s Six Sigma Black Belt and Master Black Belt training and then headed up and deployed Six Sigma into foundries, V-Engine plants, Automatic Transmission Design and Diesel Engineering.

After spending time as the Quality and Reliability Supervisor for European Diesel Engines fitted into Jaguar vehicles, Kevin joined Network Rail to deliver their Maintenance Six Sigma Programme leading to very significant signed-off savings. A role as Reliability Improvement Manager for Signalling, led him to identify the need, write and gain stakeholder approval for Network Rail’s mandated Design for Reliability Standard, integrating reliability tools into the design process. He has briefed and taught this to Network Rail, suppliers and European Infrastructure Management companies. Kevin received a Network Rail Technical Fellowships, for experience and knowledge in the fields of quality and reliability. He won Kepner Tregoe’s combined technologies 2022 Global Excellence Award for his work on Design For Reliability and recognised at the 2022 National Rail Awards for his Outstanding Personal Contribution to Rail. Kevin has written a regular article on reliability for ‘Rail Infrastructure Magazine’ since July 2022.

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.

Jim is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with IMechE and a Fellow of Engineers Ireland. Jim has 30 years’ experience in operations, maintenance, utilities, asset management and project management. Jim is based in Cork, Ireland. Jim worked in the power generation and petrochemical industries for 10 years, from 1991-2001, in Operations and Maintenance roles.

Jim joined Janssen Pharmaceutical in 2002, as maintenance engineer before moving to maintenance and utilities manager in 2003. In 2005 he moved to the green field Janssen Biologics Cork start-up, building and setting up the maintenance, utilities and facilities team. In 2012, he led a global reliability improvement initiative in Janssen pharmaceutical plants. In 2014 Jim became the Global Director for Asset Management in the Facilities Management Centre of Excellence; building a series of asset management programmes and processes to improve and standardise the management of facilities assets. Jim oversaw the transformation of asset management in Johnson & Johnson commercial sites to Integrated Facility Management service providers, as well as leading standardisation of facility condition assessments and capital spending. Jim then worked in the Engineering and Design group, leading the Industry 4.0 programme for Facilities Management. Jim is currently a Project Director on a large Biotech capital project, leading the Commissioning and Qualification team, the Engineering Handover Documentation team, acting as Utilities system owner and Maintenance system user.

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.

Chris has a BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wolverhampton coupled with 25+ years of engineering experience. After various manufacturing roles, Chris went on to become a Safety and Reliability Engineer for civil and defence products in the air, at sea and ground vehicles. He is the host of the ReliaCast podcast series and an Application Engineer for ReliaSoft software. He supports industry and university customers with reliability software solutions and best practices in reliability engineering.

Here at IMechE Chris sits on the WG1 committee of the Safety and Reliability Group (SRG). The SRG group promotes the development of safety and reliability requirements for products, systems or services.