My first contact with CBM was in 1964, and moved through manual analysers into FFTs, etc. as they became available. I never thought then that I would follow 28 years in power generation with 14 years so far at Monash University, nor write 2 books. Grew up in Melbourne, but have lived 100 miles east in the Latrobe Valley since 1966 (less 2 years in the UK and a year in Darwin). Come and visit: see how water is burnt to make power. (Lignite up to 70% wet!)

Following 40 years uniformed service in Scouting, now District Treasurer and Bulletin publisher. Also in Rotary since 1993.

Married to Barbara, a keen golfer for whom I caddy when pressed. 3 adult kids - first one to get married this December.
Mr ray.beebe@eng.monash.edu

I've been working around this industry for about 17 years now, 45 years old. Started with one of the "big three" PdM companies, based here in Knoxville, TN (God's country).

Worked as an applications engineer, sales, sales management, and now am President of a small online monitoring systems manufacturer (has it been 9 years already?)

I think that I've read every PdM book available now, some I liked much better than others.

Hobbies: Boating (there is a pontoon boat on Douglas Lake that needs driving each weekend). I'm lucky enough to have a 12 year old boy and a 7 year old girl, both of whom are waterdogs and waterski every chance they get.

I also referee basketball in the winter for exercise, and enjoy flying a Cessna 172.

Right now I am renovating a lake house we purchased last September, got it stripped out to the stud walls...hope to have it ready for next year. As I'm doing most of the destruction/construction myself, you can imagine the project I've gotten myself into with this...ugh! But it will be worth it!

Buddy Lee
President
MAARS, Inc.

Criag Staub age 31 years. I too answered this thread and many others on the old board. From memory there was about 450 or so reply's on this topic alone.
I live in Australia about 2 hours north of Sydney. We have some of the best pieces of the country within 1 hour of my house, Mountians, Vineyards, Beaches,and some of the best darn coal mines in the world.

My wife and two kids think my favourite past time is work some weeks but I can assure you they come first.

Music is a great thing to help me relax even when my 2 year old and 4 year old try to dance and perform for me while I have a beer or two.

i have been doing the vibration work for about 8 years but have been in the mining and industrial fields for about 15 years.

I live in Melbourne Australia, east side of Port Phillip bay.
Been in the Condition monitoring feild for 7 years, before that a fitter and turner (i think this is what the USA call a Millwright).

Enjoy getitng out and having a game of Hit& Giggle (golf) and time walking and enjoying the australian beaches

David

For the sake of keeping it going ...

I'm Chris Olsen, president of Sixteen-Eleven, Inc. a service firm that performs vibration analysis, balancing and alignment.

I've been married 17 years, been doing vibration for 15 years and have a daughter 13 years old. I'm blessed threefold!

If you look at a map of Ohio, there is a "puddle" between Toledo and Cincinnati. I live near Grand Lake St. Marys with 55 miles of shore line! (Ohio's largest inland lake and also man-made).

I lurked around the old boards for a long time and encourage any of the non-registered users to jump into the fray and enjoy! This forum grows from the questions and answers, please join in.

For those that contributed to the old "Who Are We" site, I must apoligize for not maintaining it properly. But in my defense, I was trying to start a business at the time

I'm Richard Spring. I'm 34 and I live outside of Canton, MS and work for an inside contractor in a nearby automobile assembly facility. I was "drafted" into the vibration program about a year ago and enjoy it thoroughly although I confess that sometimes I feel dumb as a post. In my "spare" time I am a licensed practical nurse, chef, licensed master electrician and plumber, and independent baptist preacher. I share my 20 acre farm with my wonderful wife Rhonda, my four teenage boys.(The two oldest are now enrolling(on scholarship!) in Mississippi State University, in Mechanical Engineering and International Business). I have goats, a couple of sheep, exotic laying hens and too many Black Labradors. God has truly blessed me beyond measure.

I was referred to this board by Bill Kilbey at CSI in Knoxville and I am glad that I found it. There isn't much I can contribute, but I am constantly dropping in to read and learn from you old smart guys. I appreciate you much. I plan to check in as often as possible.

Guess I might as well jump in here with all you young pups! My friends call me Papa Bear, but my mother called me Vernon. I later shortened it to Vern. After 40 years in the machinery and vibration business, I'm encouraged to see so many dedicated people enjoying what they do for a living. I'm 68 and retired, but this stuff still turns me on. I'll probably work a bit to keep up with the business, but I would just as soon sit on my dech in Galveston and sip a cold one. If I get real energetic, I'll fish a little. You guys are now the keepers of the flame, so keep it burning bright. As the Hawaiians say, "E Malama Pono" (take care of the real you that is in your heart).

Enjoy,
Vern Maddox
vmaddox1@houston.rr.com

41 years old, divorced, 2 kids. Like East Texas, also started out doing PM's on F-4's in the Air Force right out of high school. Been doing PM work for a corn proccessing plant in S.W. Minnesota for about 10 years. Also have been playing guitar since tech school at Lowry AFB in 1982. You'd think I'd get better after 23 years.

Well, I am not as old as Papa Bear, but close. 65 years old and working as a reliability engineer for the last 25 years. Before that I was a Maintenance Officer in the Navy (fighter squadrons and Shore maintenance departments). I got involved in various parts of condition monitoring: Oil analysis - 1971, Infrared Thermography - 1972, Vibration Analysis - 1978, Airborne Ultrasonics - 1994, Electrical Signature Analysis - 1995. I am a charter member of TC108/SC5, Condition Monitoring and Diagnostics of Machines. If any of you want a truly stimulating experience, check with me off line and I will try to hook you up with your national standards group. I read this board at least weekly, and have learned so much it is unreal. I recently relocated from Northern California to Dalton Georgia, Carpet capital of the world. Still living with the lady I was lucky enough to marry 39 years ago. I truly enjoy this field. It is great fun to see the light go on in the eyes of a new practicioner when they "get it".

Ken Culverson
Reliability Engineer
Shaw Inustries, Inc.
Dalton, GA
706-275-3305
kenc1_at_ix_dot_netcom_dot_com

I live in a small town in east texas, 41 years old. Married 15 years, three kids. Have worked in a recycle papermill since 1982 doing maintenance.
For the last 2 years i have been doing vibration and just love what i do.
Most of my hobbies pertain to being with my wife and kids.

Presently, I live in Old Saybrook, CT... when I am actually there. I am 38, I think? I have been in some form of rotating machinery and industrial PdM, CBM and reliability since I was 16 (oil analysis on machines for Amoco Labs, Naperville, IL). Joined the US Navy in '84 and ran the electric motor repair shop for four years on the Theodore Roosevelt (aircraft carrier). I then worked as a motor rewinder, machinist, pump/motor mechanic then engineer for Dreisilker Electric Motors in Chicago for three years, then as the Reliability and R&D manager for 4 years, including developing motor management programs and being directly involved in the development of US DOE industrial best-practices tools (MotorMaster Plus, manuals, best practices, etc). Worked on my Ph.D. in engineering, Chaired the Chicago Section of IEEE, etc., then taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago (electrical, mechanical and industrial engineering) and performed field maintenance, reliability, energy, production and waste-stream surveys and research as part of the UIC Energy Resources Center as a Senior Research Engineer and Adjunct Professor.

At the end of 1999, I joined ALL-TEST Pro (electrical motor diagnostics manufacturer, a division of BJM Pumps, a submersible pump manufacturer) as the General Manager. Researched motor diagnostics methods, electric motor time to failure estimation research, MCA/ESA data interpretation, etc. Provided electrical reliability consultation for the US Coast Guard and several military consultants.

In January of this year, I joined one of the military consultants, T-Solutions, Inc. in order to continue my military work, but also to bring them into the civilian world. As such, I have completed the NAVSEA RCM training and certification program (classical RCM) and have developed a civilianized methodology for assisting in the development of Motor Management programs. I am also on the TC108/SC5 committee and chair/edit/assist a number of IEEE standards on machinery analysis and testing that will be available shortly (in the voting stages for some). I am also one of the founding members of the Institute of Electrical Motor Diagnostics and serve as the Executive Director.

I am a trained, and certified, electric motor repair journeyman, infrared, vibration, ultrasonics, etc. and have developed training programs around MCA/ESA and other rotating machinery system technologies. Member AIST, Vibration Institute, IEEE, MENSA, IEMD, and a few others.

My job is my hobby (I have no life), and I enjoy sharing knowledge. Fairly well published both in articles and books.

My direct clients include the US Coast Guard Engineering Logistics group, I am the maintenance and reliability 'subject matter expert' to the General Motors World-Wide Facilities UAW/GM Joint Task Force, the energy and reliability consultant to Morton Salt corporate and a few others.

And, I love to brag.

Enjoy seeing a number of names and faces that I recognize here.

Howard W Penrose, Ph.D.
Cell: 860 575-3087
Email: howard@motordiagnostics.com

33yrs old from Jamaica. Been involved in Vibration Analysis since university (10yrs ago). I've had my time dragging the IRD 880 around. Hobies; model aeroplanes, jogging, watching a good movie, fishing and travelling (none of which I have time to do now due to work load). This board is part of what the internet is all about.

Gary Buckles from sunny Palatka, FL. where it has rained all but 3 days this month. Have survived for 53 years so far. Started as millwright at a papermill in 1971, moved into pump repair shop until joining the vibration analysis group in 1985. Last year, they made me a Maintenance Engineer where I still do bearing autopsies, RCFAs, teach precision maintenance techniques to our maintenance force, machinery inspection and acceptance, and so on.

My wife of 34 years and I have 3 kids. One daughter starts her PhD program next week, other daughter just passed her certification for Physical Therapist, and a son that is trying to just get his bachelor's degree so he can get out of school. Florida gator by default ($100,000+ invested)

Like traveling to art shows around the country showing and selling leaded stained glass item Faye and I create, mowing 10 acres of weeds and fighting off mosquitos.

What a life!!

Gary B

Greg Gorham 54 next week. Started working in the electric motor shops in the 70 until the spoted owl and samon problems closed a lot of saw mills.
Could not understand why the saw mills just let motors fail. Got started with Vibration Analysis and was hooked. Vibration Analysis is the most rewarding job that I have done.
I think about it even when not working trying to find better way to do my job. And you guys have been a big help. I have know one to talk to at work about Vibration and need to keep visiting this page.
I'm amaized at how many problems I have had or are having that you guys are having.
Thanks for all the help, you are more help than I have been.
nwpm@eoni.com
Greg Gorham in Oregon.

Gouda, Netherlands. Age 42. Married, two children. Independent vibration consultant/troubleshooter/teacher since 1996.

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Arild Femtegjeld. Moss, Norway. Age 46. I have worked with predictive maintenance since 1981, vibration analysis since 1986. Currently working in maintenance in a pulp and paperplant.

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Arild,

Were all the big bikes taken?

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Originally posted by Danny Harvey:
Arild,

Were all the big bikes taken?

Yes I have to drive around on this little moped until I can afford a real bike

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Jumping in:
I live in the tropical island of Puerto Rico, which is a very great place to live: hot sun, beautiful beaches, pharmaceuticals manufacturing plants from all over the world, rich culture mix with blend of Spain, African, taino natives (extinted but words, arts, and fosils survived), and one hundred something years ago: northamericans.

Maintenance Systems Engineer in a major pharmaceutical company with two plants in the island.

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