Noria adds senior reliability management consultant

Noria Corporation, a premier consulting, training and publishing company in the field of industrial lubrication and equipment reliability, recently announced the addition of Marc Gilbert to the services team as senior reliability management consultant.

“Marc is a powerful addition to our growing team,” said Drew Troyer, president and chief executive officer, Noria Corporation. “He brings a depth of knowledge to our reliability management team which will help us continue to forge ahead of the competition.”

Gilbert received his mechanical engineering degree from Georgia Tech University and his MBA from Indiana University. He was commissioned in the United States Army as a captain where he served on active duty in Kuwait. Marc has extensive experience in project management with a background in manufacturing, engineering and military construction environments.

About Noria Corporation

Noria’s business model is based around knowledge dissemination regarding lubrication best practices to help propel organizations achieve and maintain world-class status in the competitive market.

Noria Publishing produces three highly regarded magazines to nearly 100,000 subscribers: Reliable Plant, Machinery Lubrication and Practicing Oil Analysis. Machinery Lubrication magazine is also currently available in Spanish and Japanese. In addition, Noria Publishing also distributes three electronic newsletters to nearly 100,000 lubrication professionals, some of which are available in Spanish, Japanese and Portuguese. These newsletters include the Lean Manufacturing Journal, Lube-tips and Reliable Plant Mail. The Lean Manufacturing Conference (LEAN) is a semiannual event held two times a year. In the fall, LEAN is held as a standalone event. In the spring, LEAN is held in conjunction with Noria’s two other conferences, Lubrication Excellence and Reliability World. All three events are called Lean, Reliable and Lubed, which will be held in Nashville on May 20-22.

Noria Reliability Solutions (NRS) is the training and consulting arm of Noria Corporation. This division instructs the world-renowned Oil Analysis and Machinery Lubrication training seminars. These courses and others were designed to help lubrication practitioners to become highly skilled professionals. The Strategic Plant Reliability Management course is a top management perspective of the strategic importance of plant reliability management for business success. NRS also provides failure investigations, general consulting, and the highly regarded Lubrication Program Design process whereby a facility is benchmarked on current lubrication practices in order to create and implement a world-class plant-wide detailed design program for proper lubrication procedures. In addition NRS is providing consulting services to improve overall plant reliability practices by providing industry with the a better understanding about plant design, operations and maintenance to develop and implement a cohesive reliability strategy that supports the client’s missions and goals.

Noria Corporation is based in Tulsa, Okla., with additional offices in Oklahoma City; San Antonio; Mobile, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.; Indianapolis; Philadelphia; Fort Atkinson, Wis.; Toronto; Vancouver, BC; Leon, Mexico; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Tokyo; and Chester, England. In addition, Noria has a network of international affiliates in the Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Bolivia and Colombia.