The recent Innovation Summit was held in the green Pacific Northwest, but it also had a tinge of orange thanks to UT’s Dr. Klaus Blache.
Blache, director of UT’s Reliability and Maintainability Center (RMC), was a guest of Fluke Corporation and presented the keynote address at the May 2015 event on Technology Adaption in Industry.
Wes Pringle, president of Fluke, presided over the meeting, which was attended by global technology experts and reliability leaders from industry.
Blache also took the opportunity to spend time with other leading companies in the Seattle area such as Boeing and Weyerhaeuser.
As a leader in research and best practices related to reliability, Blache and others with the RMC have developed some of the most respected courses and techniques in the sector. The center’s summer courses alone—ranging from fundamentals to analysis—have proved especially popular with businesses, with many of them selling out well in advance.
Additionally, the group has more than fifty members, each of whom have agreements with the center for year-round feedback and problem solving.
Fluke Corporation, which sponsored the event, is the world leader in the manufacture, distribution and service of electronic test tools, precision measurement and software, all of which play key roles in reliability studies.