Dr. David Forrester has more than 35 years experience in machine condition monitoring, vibration analysis, machine dynamics, data acquisition, digital signal processing, computer programming and design of vibration analysis systems. He has over 50 publications including 3 book chapters. In 1998 he was awarded a Defence Research Fellowship to undertake research at the Institute of Sound & Vibration Research (University of Southampton) in the UK. He pioneered the use of time-frequency analysis for machinery fault diagnosis and developed epicyclic planet gear separation techniques which have been patented in Australia, the USA and Europe. He managed DSTO tasks in Advanced Condition Assessment Technologies, the commercial technology transfer of DSTO’s Advanced Gearbox Vibration to Honeywell, USA and the application of Vibration PHM technology to the multi-national Joint Strike Fighter (F-35).
