Ian Glendinning
MBA, BSc(Eng), CEng, MIMechE, MWeldI, ACGI, DIC
Engineering & Information Management Consultant & Founder at Glenco IS Ltd
Ian is a professionally qualified engineer and manager, with over 40 years process plant systems engineering.
This covers the full life-cycle from requirements & functional schematic development, through design, materials, welded fabrication, construction, assurance & handover to operators & authorities. This includes containment system integrity, trouble-shooting, revamp & turnaround experience on operating facilities in oil & gas, LNG, refining, energy, chemical & pharma assets.
With that first-hand perspective of the real engineering life-cycle, Ian has been active in recent decades in leading the implementation of information-standards-based interoperability and handovers, for EPC & O&M customers and software solution providers, extending to collaboration & digital transformation projects for an even wider range of industries, in infrastructure, nuclear, transport, aerospace, as well as oil and gas.
In that period Ian has been instrumental in the evolution of reference data architectures for flexible & future-proof industrial standards for lifecycle-information ontologies.
Apart from football, sailing, hiking and gardening, most of Ian’s spare time is taken up by a hobby researching epistemology, asking “What, Why & How do we Know?” applied to decision-making and change in human organisations.
However, Ian remains first and foremost an engineer specialising in information management at plant facilities business interfaces that maintain system & information integrity across the full life-cycle and is flexible about contract and/or employment terms that enable client engagement towards useful solutions.
Tools & Technologies come and go, but Lifecycle Information lives on forever.