Pete Bratt is an Engineering Superintendent working for GCT Canada, the largest container terminal operator in Canada.  Pete’s focus is equipment reliability, helping organizations maximize the output and minimize the lifetime costs of their assets.  He has experience with equipment reliability in the military, automobile manufacturing, nuclear physics research, and material handling fields.  Pete believes that with an improved maintenance program, organizations can significantly reduce the measured and unmeasured costs associated with equipment downtime.

His tentative research proposal is to investigate the costs and benefits of implementing artificial intelligence into asset management programs.  This research aims to provide senior decision makers, engineers, and project managers with a reference point for the investments required to integrate these technologies and forecast the impacts.  Examples include optical character recognition technologies to capture information from technician service reports, remote monitoring and analytics of equipment sensors to predict maintenance intervals and failures, and algorithms to optimize automated machinery.

Pete is a licensed Professional Engineering in British Columbia, completed his bachelor’s in mechanical engineering at the University of Windsor (2014), and a master’s in business administration at Simon Fraser University (2021).