About Stuart Walker
Director – Reliability Maintenance Solutions Ltd
Stuart has worked in the Condition Monitoring and Reliability sector for the last 23 years. He started his career working for Dupont as a Mechanical and Production Technician after completing a four year apprenticeship. It was here he was introduced to Condition Based Maintenance and setup a successful program at one of DuPont’s UK sites. He utilized technology’s such as Vibration analysis, Oil Analysis and IR Thermography moving the site from a time based maintenance strategy to a predictive and proactive one. Stuart then worked for a Reliability Consultant company for a number of years implementing and running a number of other successful CBM programs across the UK.
In 1999 he setup Reliability Maintenance Solutions Ltd with his colleague Dean Whittle. Together they have successfully grown the company over the last 20 years. RMS provides reliability consultancy, training, service, and products to a number blue chip companies across the UK, Europe and Middle East. Stuart has worked in many industry sectors including Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Power and Paper. He is currently working on projects introducing and implementing the new Motion Amplification Technology within RMS and across a wide range of Industries at home and abroad.
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Case Study: Flue Gas Recycle Fan
Flue Gas Recycle Fan: Introduction The Flue Gas Recycle Fan is part of the COGA unit. The fan increases the efficiency of the COGA unit by recycling a proportion of the incinerated gases from the COGA stack. The fan is critical in sustaining high rates of operation on the plant, catastrophic failure of this fan […]
Arlanxeo wins BEMAS Asset Performance Award
Arlanxeo Performance Elastomers, Belgium, win a BEMAS Asset Performance Award; from all at RMS Reliability, many congratulations on this well-deserved achievement. In the category ‘Best Improvement in Maintenance & Asset Management’, Christophe Van de Maele and Kristof Van Den Berghe of Arlanxeo were allowed to take the trophy home. The four case examples in which […]
Motion Amplification helps diagnose machine soft foot issues
How can Motion Amplification help with Soft foot? 30-Second Summary Motion amplification proves to be ideal for visualization of structural issues and resonance problems in machines. Vibration problem at 100Hz which is electrically related should be visualized using an MA camera. Machine frame distortion is usually known as soft foot, as it often prevents the […]
Are you inspecting bearing defects to identify root cause?
How can Vibration Analysis help detect bearing faults? 30-Second Summary Vibration analysis can help detect bearing defects, but can’t do much to enhance plant reliability. Detecting the root cause of the bearing defect is equally important when it comes to ensuring that the same problem doesn’t occur in the future. RMS offers Online, Public, and […]
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Services: Vibration Analysis | Wireless Sensors | Motion Amplification | Ultrasound Analysis | Criticality Analysis | Oil Analysis | Thermography | Drone Inspections; Products: AMS Wireless | AMS 2140 | AMS Machinery Manager | Kappa X | Motion Amplification IRIS M | SDT Ultrasound | CRYSOUND Acoustic Imager | CM Oil Pod | Vibration Analysis Wall Chart; Training: VCAT-I | VCAT-II | VCAT-III | VCAT-IV | ARP Advocate | ARP Engineer | ARP Leader | Ultrasound CAT I | CBM | iLearnReliability CM; Team: Dean Whittle | Stuart Walker | Wendy Whittle | Steven Whittle | Paul Simbeck-Hampson | Andrew Loder | Craig Brawn | Graham Williams | James Sylvester | Tom Murphy | Nigel Taylor | Micky Jackson | George Elia