Martin Williamson is a graduate Mechanical Engineer from the University of Cape Town and began his maintenance career working in the mining industry. This experience included condition monitoring with a focus on oil analysis and Tribology. In 1994, Martin joined Pall Filtration in the UK and provided technical support on their contamination monitoring instruments to clients in a variety of industries. He later joined Entek IRD to work in product management of their oil analysis tools and software, as well as providing a technical support role including training on oil analysis to international clients. For the last 25 years, he has been presenting training classes and undertaking consulting projects on an international level on behalf of Noria Corp and other key clients such as BP, Dow Corning, Marathon Oil and Cargill. He attained his CMRP (Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional) status with SMRP (Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals) and has been involved with ICML (International Council for Machinery Lubrication) being MLE, MLAIII and MLTII certified, as well as working on various related ISO working groups. Martin is currently managing director of KEW Engineering Ltd (established in 2005) and a co-Director of Uptime1O1 Pte. Ltd (established in 2020).
