Please join University of Tennessee and Reliabilityweb.com for a sneak peak of a very special keynote address by Peter G. Martin.

Kim Kallstrom, Technical Program Chair for MARCON-2009 and Terrence O'Hanlon, Publisher, Uptime Magazine and Reliabilityweb.com caught up with Dr. Martin for a brief conversion that will provide a glimpse into the insights he will share during his MARCON Keynote address.

Dr. Martin is VP of Strategic Ventures for IPS. He joined The Foxboro Company in the 1970’s and has worked in a variety of positions in training, engineering, product planning, marketing and strategic planning. He left Foxboro to become Vice President at Intech Controls and also at Automation Research Corporation before returning to Invensys in 1996. Since his return he has held positions as VP of Marketing for Foxboro and Chief Marketing Officer for Invensys Manufacturing and Process Systems prior to moving into his current position.

Dr. Martin is an acknowledged leader in the fields of real time performance measurement and management and holds multiple patents in these fields.

Dr. Martin has led the movement toward converging real time accounting measures with operational KPIs to be the basis for driving measureable bottom line performance improvements.

Dr. Martin holds multiple patents including the patent for Dynamic Performance Measures, Real-Time Activity-Based Costing, Closed-loop business control, and Asset and Resource Modeling, which are the basis for Fortune recently naming him a Hero of U.S. Manufacturing. He was also recently named as one of the 50 Most Influential Innovators of All Time by the Instrument, Systems and Automation Society (ISA)