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Canada
M. G. Currie helps companies to optimize investments in productive assets and in the technologies that support them. With over 25 years experience, Michael has led business units at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Matrikon and Finning Canada. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and a regular contributor of articles on subjects concerning asset management, technology and human resource strategy. Michael has a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of British Columbia and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario. He lives in Kelowna, British Columbia.
Dan is a Maintenance Management Consultant with over 18 years of experience in maintenance management, planning and scheduling, CMMS implementation, design engineering, and project management. Dan specializes in optimizing maintenance departments by using tools such as CMMS systems to improve their planning and scheduling practices. Working up the ranks from the shop floor to the management office he brings an extensive hands on approach with 21st century methodologies. Understanding the thinking of the trades he is able to make maintenance departments evolve from a style of fire fighting maintenance strategies to a proactive predictive approach.
Leonard has over 30 years of professional experience in maintenance, engineering, and project management. His strong technical background and analytic capabilities combined with a business degree provides a broad perspective of physical asset management issues and solutions to support the organizational objectives. He has in-depth knowledge of performance measures and benchmarking; project management, governance and project evaluation and selection including cost benefit analysis; work management; reliability-centred maintenance and asset strategy supporting organizational goals.
Marek is a Manufacturing Consultant specializing in improving overall operational efficiencies through the effective implementation of Lean Manufacturing - Toyota Production System.
Marek’s initial knowledge and expertise of Lean Manufacturing tools, methodologies and practices comes from working for Toyota Motor Manufacturing in Canada. Since 1994 he has worked with numerous manufacturing plants in North America and Europe where he has a proven track record of successful implementation of Lean Manufacturing. His clients include companies specializing in automotive products, appliances, furniture, medical devices, consumer goods, packaging, plastic, glass, rubber, personal computers and electronics.
In his work he has proven that Lean is not a trend or a movement. Lean is a collection of tools, methodologies, techniques and processes, that when implemented correctly and in the right sequence, will generate measurable results, help companies reduce costs and improve overall operational efficiency. Any company venturing into a Lean Journey must consider not only changes to their manufacturing and material management practices, but also a review and modifications to their organizational structure. Marek emphasizes the organizational development and training process to achieve the business objectives and benefits that are requisite of the above improvement processes.
Marek graduated from Systems Design Engineering from University of Waterloo, Ontario in 1977. He is a member of John Shook’s TWI Network and a Faculty Associate of Jim Womack’s Lean Enterprise Institute. He resides in Toronto.
James Reyes-Picknell is co-founder and President of Conscious Group Inc. He is a published author, teacher / trainer, speaker and a respected professional advisor (subject matter expert) in his field. He has over 29 years of hands-on experience in engineering, operations, maintenance and reliability management and business consulting. He has an in-depth knowledge of business systems and the management of physical, process and human factors within organizations. James teaches and provides expert advice to clients on strategy, processes, process improvement, human and business transformation. His most recent book, "Uptime - Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management" (2nd edition) is rapidly becoming one of the premier references for maintenance managers world wide. It is already in use at several universities around the world as a text book in Maintenance Management. James specializes in strategy, reliability and organizational change. James' clients include: Agrium, Aladon, Alberta Pacific, Atco Electric, Bonneville Power Authority, Canadian Coast Guard, Canbra Foods, Chevron Shipping, Copperleaf, Davies Consulting Inc., EarthTech, Electric Utilities Cost Group (EUCG), EnCana Corporation, Greater Vancouver Regional District, Ivara, Luscar, New Dimension Solutions, PT International Nickel (PT Inco), Sejoong Consulting Co., Ltd., Toronto Hydro, Toronto Transit Commission and TransCanada. To learn more about James view his profile at the CAMC members directory or on LinkedIn.
Dr. Ali Zuashkiani has both practical and theoretical expertise in optimizing maintenance decisions including preventive maintenance intervals, inspection frequencies, condition based maintenance, spare parts inventories, maintenance crew size and resources, retiring age of capital equipment and machinery based on Life Cycle Costing (LCC). He also has a deep familiarity with methodologies that use experts' knowledge in dealing with the above problems when there is no historical data available. Ali obtained his PhD from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto in the area of reliability and maintainability management. He is now a Post Doctoral Associate working with the Condition Based Maintenance Laboratory at the University of Toronto on the topic of maintenance performance management.
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