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An interview with Johan Luycx, product technical support specialist for Chevron is presented. Luycx said that after my military service in the Belgian Army, stationed in Germany, I started to look for a job and was recruited by Texaco in October 1988. I obtained a bachelor of science degree in industrial chemistry at Hogeschool Gent in Belgium, where petrochemistry was part of the lesson package. Some of my schoolmates were already working at the Texaco Research Centre in Ghent, and I was invited in early October 1988 for a job interview. There are still many jobs available in the lubricants industry, but I only can speak about how I came into this industry. It does not really matter what degree you obtained--the real learning process starts when you are in the job. Preferably, you should start working in the laboratory to understand all aspects of the specification tests, then move on to product development or a technical support function.
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An interview with Ron Yungk, lubricants chief at Eastman Chemical Co is presented. Yungk said that I often describe my current multi-disciplinary role as a dream job providing the privilege of interacting with airline mechanics and engineers to understand lubricant performance and its challenges in the real world. This inevitably leads to partnering with aviation engine and other component designers to determine root causes and their solutions. This conduit lays the foundation for collaboration on future design improvements that include expanding the design envelope in an informed manner, developing improved service relevant tests and seeding new design model tools with oil property related parameters. It was an extremely rewarding experience to work with my peers at competing engine manufacturers across the globe as well as many aviation regulatory authorities to institute such a well-conceived and robust oil specification. The SAE AS5780 specification now embedded within the design community also facilitates a traceable management of change process to validate new raw materials used in fixed qualified oil formulations.
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An interview with Mike Damiani, CEO of Radco Industries, is presented. Among other things, Damiani discusses his career in the lubricants industry, how he got involved with STLE and his goals as ILMA president.
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An interview with Dirk Drees, CEO of Falex Tribology, talks about his career in engineering and research and how he got into tribology is presented. He said as with many of us, he stumbled into the tribology world almost by accident. He graduated as a materials engineer from the University of Leuven in Belgium, and got the opportunity to temporarily replace a researcher who was working on the wear and friction of vacuum-deposited titanium nitride coatings. This researcher was doing his military service, so, in a sense, the Belgian Army was the catalyst. He had done his master's thesis on surface analyses techniques, so the jump didn't seem so big. He added that tribology is indeed a big world, and as we like to call it, "multidisciplinary." It may cover many scales of forces: teratribology of earthquakes, friction and wear in huge machines, in smaller components down to micromachines.
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An interview with Ken Nakano, a professor at Yokohama National University, is presented. Among other things, Nakano talks about his 30 years of service in the field of tribology research.
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An interview with Kian Kun Yap and Manoj Murali, doctorate students from Imperial College London, is presented. Among other things, Yap and Murali discuss their research on PPE-induced skin injuries among healthcare workers.
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An interview with Bill Tuszynski, a partner at The Unami Group LLC, is presented. Among other things, Tuszynski discusses his STLE volunteer work and how he became involved in the lubricants industry.
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An interview with STLE member Dr. Hannes Grillenberger is presented. Among other things, he discusses how he got into the field of tribology, the key challenges in the rolling bearing industry, and the incorporation of sustainability in the industrial design of bearings.
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An interview with Georee Plint, director for Phoenix Tribology Ltd is presented.
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Personally, my basement flooded, a tornado hit my town, my air conditioner stopped working during the hottest week of the year, and my brother had COVID-19 (he's doing fine now). There were articles on hot topics such as wind turbines and electric vehicles. Things will still look different around the world next year, but TLT will maintain the same high quality, high-level information geared toward the technical professional.
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An interview with Marc Masen, associate professor at Imperial College London, is presented. Among other things, masen talks about the mechanical behavior of soft materials.