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Heinz Bloch

Heinz P. Bloch is a registered Consulting Engineer. Before retiring from Exxon in 1986 after 24 years of service, Mr. Bloch's professional career included long-term assignments as Exxon Chemical Company's Regional Machinery Specialist for the United States. He also held machinery-oriented staff and line positions with Exxon affiliates in the United States, Italy, Spain, England, the Netherlands and Japan. Troubleshooting and reliability improvements missions have taken him to affiliated companies and machinery manufacturing plants in more than a dozen additional locations worldwide. He has conducted hundreds of public and in-plant courses internationally.

Mr. Bloch is the author of over 150 technical papers and similar publications. His 12 comprehensive books on practical machinery management and oil mist lubrication have been used for lectures and consulting assignments internationally. In addition, Mr. Bloch holds five U.S. patents relating to high speed machinery improvements.

Mr. Bloch graduated from the New Jersey Institute of Technology with B.S. and M.S. degrees (cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering. He was elected to three National Honor Societies, is a member of the Vibration Institute and ASME, and maintains registration as a Professional Engineer in both New Jersey and Texas. Mr. Bloch also served as a founding member of the advisory board of Texas A&M University's International Pump Users Symposium, and is the editor/originator of Hydrocarbon Processing magazine's monthly "Reliability Page."

Welcome to Equifactor®

Have you ever wondered how successful companies consistently keep their equipment running at peak performance?

Now, a more efficient and effective way to solve equipment failure and performance problems. Equifactor® integrates troubleshooting techniques and the TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis System to identify real root causes and implement lasting fixes faster and with more reliability.

The Equifactor® 3-day courses are designed for Maintenance, Reliability and Safety professionals who want a proven method of analyzing equipment problems and failures when conducting root cause failure analysis.

Learn how to:
  • use the secrets of the "Best-In-Class" companies
  • conduct more efficient troubleshooting and failure analysis
  • spend less time analyzing and re-analyzing machinery failures
  • conduct better failure analysis to reduce repeat failures
  • improve plant performance and reduce plant downtime to increase profitability

Receive:
  • Heinz Bloch's Book, Equipment Troubleshooting and Failure Analysis
  • the TapRooT® Book
  • Equifactor® Troubleshooting software

Visit the Equifactor® Weblog Page.

Return-On-Investment

By investing a few days of your time of your time you will gain:
  • a lifetime of learning and knowledge
  • the troubleshooting tools and techniques developed by machinery reliability expert Heinz Bloch
  • the root cause analysis tools and techniques developed by performance experts System Improvements

Guarantee

We are so sure of this training that we can say: Attend this training and use Equifactor® / TapRooT® to troubleshoot your machinery problems and find their root causes. You will be more efficient and effective and can reduce failures by 20% or more when using these techniques, if not, just return the books and course materials for a full course fee refund.