Dean Whittle

How to Move from Condition Monitoring to Condition Improvement

Dean Whittle is the co-founder of RMS Ltd together with Stuart Walker. Dean has many years experience in a wide range of condition monitoring applications. He shares his knowledge freely to help others in the industry.

During Dean’s more than 40+ year career he has held various roles in electro/mechanical engineering ranging from a five-year apprenticeship through various shop floor/field services roles to district manager for a world-leading supplier of reliability-based and condition-based maintenance products and services. During the past 32 years, he has been committed to implementing plant reliability and condition monitoring improvement programmes throughout  industry; covering power, paper, petro-chemical, pharmaceutical, automotive, quarries, film/plastic, food, electronic, service and engineering manufacturing industries.

Dean shares his expertise as an approved trainer for both the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT) and Mobius Institute ISO-18436 accreditation programmes, and as a speaker at a number of conferences.

Additionally, Dean is an active member in a number of accredited institutes and committees:

• British Standards Institute – BSi Technical sub-committee GME/21/5 – Mechanical vibration and shock and Condition monitoring – Vibration of machines
• British Standards Institute – BSi Technical sub-committee GME/21/7 Mechanical vibration and shock and Condition monitoring – Condition monitoring
• ISO TC108 / SC5 Condition Monitoring & Diagnostics of Machine Systems
• The British Institute of NDT Council Member
• The British Institute of NDT Condition Monitoring Technical Committee
• The British Institute of NDT Vibration Analysis, Ultrasound & Condition Monitoring Working Groups
• Mobius Institute Board of Certification (MIBoC) Technical Committee, Vibration Analysis, Ultrasound, Asset Reliability Practitioner Committees