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South America

David A de Castro (Brazil)

David A. de Castro is a president of Brasman Engenharia, Brazil.  He is a registered consulting engineer with an MSc degree in mechanical engineering.  David has over 25 years of experience in maintenance and reliability engineering with large corporations and on-the-job training in Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and USA.  He has authored over than 20 technical papers on maintenance engineering and MRO materials.  For the past 10 years, David has specialized in scientific inventory control of MRO materials and spare parts.  The work has involved developing and implementing innovative best practices and analytical tools to process facilities all over Brazil.  David is a lecturer of post-graduation at the University of Salvador, Unifacs, Salvador, Brazil.

Reinaldo Quintero, Eng. (Venezuela)

Reinaldo Quintero is a Material Engineer graduated from Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela.  He has postgraduate studies in Finance, Physical Asset and Project Management from the University of Toronto and 23 years of experience in Predictive Maintenance Technologies.   Reinaldo is a certified Level to III Vibration Analysis, Non Destructive Testing (Infrared, UV, ,Ultrasound, Eddy Current, X-Ray, Gamma Ray), Destructive Testing and Fracture failures analysis for several Industries such as Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Paper, Power Generation, Mining, Steel and Non Ferrous process metal working, Automobile and food Processing.

As a supplier and consultant his activities have included successful project and technology implementation on:

  • PdM and PM programs
  • Maintenance Processes
  • Integrated Condition Monitoring
  • RCA
  • RCM
  • TPM
  • PAM
  • HAZOP
  • DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Eng. Reinaldo Quintero is certified as a Rockwell ICM Division Solution Provider including IRD Balancing.  He provides seminars and training in those technologies.

Gabriel Rodriguez (Chile)