People.

These two experts are behind RelCode

Graham Oliver

Oliver Interactive, Inc. is a Toronto-based enterprise that is owned and operated by Graham Oliver. The company, established in the mid-80s has focused on the marketing of software packages, and in some cases, on their development as well. The applications RelCode and EXAKT are used around the world, while our RFund software (not of relevance to industrial maintenance) has been, so far, adopted just in North America.

Graham's career spans almost 6 decades beginning with some time in management positions with Du Pont of Canada. For almost 20 years he was with McGill University in Montreal — his jobs included teaching management courses at the undergraduate (B.Comm.) and graduate (MBA) levels as well as organizing executive seminars for McGill's Management Institute. One of the seminars, on maintenance and reliability, was conducted by Dr. Andrew Jardine, and Graham's association with him led to the development of software programs which he marketed through Oliver Interactive.

After re-locating to Toronto in the mid-90s Graham embarked on another software venture related to the establishment and sustainment of reserve funds for co-owned properties. This product, RFund, is currently enjoying acceptance and may be explored by going to its website.

Dr. Nicholas Hastings

Nick Hastings is the developer of our RelCode software package. He is an adjunct professor in the Centre for Integrated Engineering Asset Management, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, and a consultant and training facilitator in reliability engineering and engineering asset management.

Application areas in which he has been involved include electricity utilities; mining and mineral processing; defense; oil and gas industry; water utilities and manufacturing. His interests range from strategic organization and financial analysis for engineering assets, to reliability, maintenance and cost analysis.

He was formerly Professor of Maintenance Engineering at Queensland University of Technology, and is the author of several books and many research papers in reliability and related fields. In 2006 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Maintenance Engineering Society of Australia in recognition of his contributions to reliability and maintenance engineering and engineering asset management.