Donald G. Dunn of WS Nelson

All end-users within heavy industry focus on improving ‘Safety’ and some also work on improving ‘Operations Excellence,’ but there are only a few end-users who spend equally as much time on ‘Reliability.’  Unfortunately, in industry, we continue to see significant incidents with loss of life even with this enhanced focus on safety and operations excellence.  A three-legged stool is inherently stable, but a stool with less than three legs cannot stand. The missing leg of this stool is reliability, which has not been a focus area of but a few end-users.  In the companies that view reliability (all failures are preventable) on par with safety (all incidents are preventable), equipment failure is addressed proactively to prevent the ‘catastrophic failures’ that have led to significant incidents in facilities.  This presentation will provide a context of the methods for developing a world-class reliability-centric organization.

Biography:

Mr. Dunn is a Senior Consultant with WS Nelson providing services to the Refining, Chemical, and various other industries. He has held engineering and management positions at several major refining and chemical companies during his over 25-year career.  He is currently a Fellow member of the IEEE and the ISA.  He is a member of the IEEE, ISA, NFPA, API, and IEC standards development organizations.  He co-chairs ISA18, chairs IEEE 841 & 841.1 and is the convener of IEC62682.  Mr. Dunn served as the IEEE Houston Section chairman in 2001, 2002, 2006, 2011-2012, Vice President for the ISA Standards and Practices Board in 2011-2012, chairman of the IEEE IAS Petroleum and Chemical Industry Committee (PCIC) 2012-2014 and chairman of the API Subcommittee on Electrical Equipment 2012-2015.  In 2015, he was elected to serve a three-year term on the ISA Board of Directors and is the past chairman of the PCIC A&A subcommittee.