Dr. Klaus Blache, director of the Reliability & Maintainability Center at the University of Tennessee covers the past, present, and future of predictive technologies.

He also talks about how predictive technologies and condition-based maintenance are important in establishing a solid reliability process, and how they relate to continuous improvement.

Dr. Klaus Blache, director of the Reliability & Maintainability Center (RMC)

Dr. Klaus Blache is the director of the Reliability & Maintainability Center (RMC) at the University of Tennessee and a research professor at the university’s College of Engineering. He has more than 35 years of experience in various areas of manufacturing and continuous improvement (processes and people), including lean manufacturing, reliability and maintenance, competitive analysis, continuous improvement tools and techniques, new facility planning and implementation, industrial engineering, ergonomics, and change management. Dr. Blache is a past two-year chairman of SMRP (Society of Maintenance & Reliability Professionals) and helped initiate the organization. His most recent book is “The Relativity of Continuous Improvement: Learning How to Work on What Matters.”

Originally published on Accelix.com, 10/11/19