100 Years of Maintenance & Reliability: Practical Lessons from Three Lifetimes at Process Plants
V. Narayan has a mechanical engineering degree from the  University of Pune in India. He retired from a major multinational Oil &  Gas group of companies in 2002, after a distinguished career in maintenance  and project engineering. With a broad range of work in industries,  including e.g., the upstream and downstream Oil and Gas Industry sectors to  the Automobile, Light Engineering and Pharmaceutical Industries, in several  countries and cultures, including India, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, The  Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, he has deep and broad experience in  the field. As a consultant or trainer to companies in many countries in the  Middle-East, Far-East, Africa and Europe he has seen and experienced  cultural differences. He managed the Oil & Gas company's Centre of  Excellence in Maintenance and Reliability Engineering and represented it in  a Joint Industry Project (OREDA) for the collection of reliability data.Jim Wardhaugh graduated from the University of Liverpool and is a  Chartered Engineer. In a 30 year career in a major multinational Oil & Gas  group of companies he demonstrated success in many different roles  (projects, construction, maintenance, technical, inspection, warehousing,  transport, quality, and training) in a number of different countries.  Within this Oil & Gas company's Technical Head Office he guided refineries  worldwide on best maintenance practices and on "Computerized Management and  Information Systems". He was a founder member of their consultancy group  responsible for reliability improvements in the refineries. He now provides  consultancy services targeting performance improvement, particularly in the  fields of asset management, operations, and maintenance.Mahen Das is a chartered mechanical engineer, retired from a major  multinational Oil & Gas group of companies in 2002 after 42 years of work  in optimization of maintenance and operational reliability of petroleum  refineries and gas plants. His learning and experience has been drawn from  hands-on work, at all levels of asset management, at 40 sites in 22  countries. After working for 32 years in the "field", during the last 10  years of his career were spent in transferring knowledge to refineries, gas  plants and production facilities in the group of companies as well as to  third party clients in the form of consultancy services. During this period  he helped establish the consultancy group responsible for reliability  improvements in the refineries. As a leader of this team, Mahen visited and  reviewed the business processes of more than 30 operating plants, and  helped them make significant improvements in their maintenance and  reliability performance.