EPERNESTO PRIMERA
ERNESTO PRIMERA / INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Share experience.
Build technical judgment.

More than fifteen years of international technical education, university teaching and professional participation.

Instructor

From theory to the
real plant problem.

Training connects engineering fundamentals with real cases in oil and gas, refining, petrochemicals, mining, power generation, manufacturing and food production.

Vibration Analysis · Categories I, II & III

SPM Academy

Technical education grounded in vibration concepts, diagnostics and industrial cases.

Pumping System Assessment (PSA) / Pumping System Optimization (PSO)

Hydraulic Institute

Instructor/facilitator in pumping system assessment, efficiency, reliability and optimization.

PROACT® RCA / EasyRCA

Reliability Center

Root cause analysis, forensic component failure analysis and use of EasyRCA.

Authorized instructor · machinery and reliability

ASME Learning & Development

Centrifugal compressors, pumps, gas turbines, mechanical seals, couplings, turbine reliability and pumping system reliability.

Bearings: Applications and Failure Analysis

ASTM International

Bearings, applications and failure analysis.

University teaching

Industrial practice
enters the classroom.

UNED · Spain

University Expert Diploma in Mechanical Equipment Reliability and 4.0 Technologies. School of Industrial Engineering.

Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Continuing Education Master’s in Reliability, Maintainability and Risk Engineering (MICRO).

Universidad Tecnológica Nacional · Argentina

Specialization in Maintenance Engineering. Córdoba Regional Faculty.

Universidad Continental · Peru

Master’s in Maintenance Management. Graduate School.

Professional leadership

Participation that builds
a technical community.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

His principal professional society connection combines professional participation, technical education, standards and international leadership. He served as President of the Venezuela Professional Section and participates as an instructor and in the Speakers Bureau.

SecretaryVice ChairChair

Leadership in ASME Fluids Engineering: Secretary (2021–2022), Vice Chair (2023–2024) and Chair (2024–2026).

Participation in ASME B73.1 / B73.2 / B73.3 and IGTI, in monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics. Conference Chair for the ASME Fluids Engineering Division conferences in 2027 and 2028.

Ernesto Primera presenting at a Hydraulic Institute conference
Knowledge transfer to the international technical community.

ESReDA

Participation in Digital Maintenance and Asset Digitalization (DMAD), connecting data, AI, models and digital twins with maintenance and asset management.

Hydraulic Institute

Industry Partner and instructor/facilitator. Plant experience applied to pump knowledge, system assessment and optimization.

Society of Reliability Engineers

Lifetime Member, connected with the Alabama chapter. Contributions in wireless vibration monitoring, prognostics and pump reliability.