M2K - Key Persons


David J Smith

David has over thirty-five years of experience in reliability and risk assessment and in-house training courses. He has developed FARADIP, one of the largest failure rate and failure mode data banks in the reliability profession; in addition to four unique software packages which provide reliability data, reliability calculations and optimum maintenance strategies. He has also written and updated several textbooks on the above topics and is an authority in his field having been directly concerned with reliability engineering and quality since 1978. David has written and updated numerous textbooks and remains a proactive authority in his field. His main books are:

David Thompson

David has conducted over 40 workshops in reducing inventory costs and conducted many audits for the Oil & Gas, Chemical, Beverage, Refining & Petrochemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Mining Industries. He has also developed MS Access tools to conduct auditing, cleansing of MRO Master Data and optimisation of current stocking levels. Focused areas are: MRO Spares Parts Optimisation & Inventory Cost Reduction (including Critical Spares Analysis) Auditing of CMMS MRO Spare Parts Master Data Auditing inventory control effectiveness Technical documents and guides for MRO MRO Material Management Best Practice Audits Training in above available world-wide

Kenneth Lees

Job Titles:
  • Professional Engineer
Kenny is a Professional Engineer with proven experience and expertise in Operational Reliability Improvement, Maintenance Management and Risk Analysis, primarily for the Energy Sector. He has worked with a number of multinational operating companies in the oil and gas, nuclear and pharmaceutical sectors primarily providing Risk, Reliability & Maintenance Management Consultancy and Technical Training Services. Following his co-authoring of Maintenance and Operations in Design procedure, he actively assisted several projects whose total value exceeded $1.6bn, to successfully apply Maintenance Excellence methods. Has also conducted Maintenance Management and Reliability Improvement Courses in Europe, USA and the Middle East and has written and presented many papers in his field. Areas of Expertise: Asset Register Build, Asset Data Cleansing & Restructuring, As-Built Asset Verification,