Robert Perez is a mechanical engineer with more than 40 years of rotating equipment experience in the petrochemical industry. He has worked in petroleum refineries, chemical facilities, and gas processing plants. He earned a BSME degree from Texas A&M University at College Station, an MSME degree from the University of Texas at Austin and holds a Texas PE license. Mr. Perez has written numerous technical articles for magazines and conferences proceedings and has contributed to many books about machinery reliability. His latest book, Troubleshooting Centrifugal Pump Field Problems, is now available for purchase at Amazon.com. (To order this book follow this link: https://a.co/d/1bDkKtx)