The Company's flagship product, PRO-M1, was originally developed by APT co-founders Dr. David
Worledge and Glenn Hinchcliffe for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in response
to a critical dearth of condition and environment-specific preventive maintenance information
in the market for high-end industrial equipment. The product grew out of frustration by
RCM practitioners at the lack of a readily available source of such data. The first
iteration of the product was as a set of
industry publications covering the preventive
maintenance of thirty-nine core industrial components used by the nuclear power industry.
These publications were so popular that they led directly to the creation of the PRO-M software
product, first released and installed in early 2000. Since that time the product has
been through two revisions and is currently in use at over 80 sites in two countries by over
30 different corporations in the power industry. APT has the exclusive rights to expand
the product to other industry verticals.
Dr. David Worledge, President, CEO and co-founder of APT, originally proposed the idea
for the gathering and publishing of preventive maintenance information to EPRI's Steering
Committee in 1995. In the course of creating the publications, Dr. Worledge
conceived of the idea of using mathematical models to give more flexibility and depth to
the information in the publications. He received funding to build the first version
of the PRO-M software product in 1998. The project has been continually funded by
EPRI each year since 1996 before being licensed to APT for commercialization.
In building the product for electric power facilities, Dr. Worledge and Mr. Hinchcliffe,
through their extensive experience in other market verticals, immediately saw PRO-M's
applicability to any capital-intensive industry. They have ensured that the modeling
algorithms, data gathering protocols, and core industrial components in the system were
those that were widely applicable outside of the electric power industry. Together,
Dr. Worledge and Mr. Hinchcliffe have over 45 years of combined experience in plant
maintenance and operations helping facilitate this choice of data and the strategic uses
of it in the PRO-M product.
Over 30 EPRI member companies have actively participated in the development of the PRO-M
product, and all have implemented and are using the product today. Today, the software
product is on the fourth revision (called V6.0) and is beginning to be deployed with great
success into the Fossil, Hydro-electric, and Transmission & Distribution verticals within
the EPRI membership.
EPRI, the Electric Power Research Institute, was founded in 1973 as a non-profit energy
research consortium for the benefit of utility members, their customers, and society.
Their mission is to provide science and technology-based solutions of indispensable value to
global energy customers by managing a far-reaching program of scientific research, technology
development, and product implementation.
EPRI is the only science and technology consortium serving the entire energy industry - from
energy conversion to end use - in every region of the world. With expertise in a wide
spectrum of scientific research, technology development, and product application, EPRI is able
to offer solutions that cut across traditional boundaries, taking advantage of the latest
advances in many fields. Participation in EPRI's program is open to all organizations
involved in the energy industry throughout the world.
EPRI is highly-regarded worldwide as an institution providing high-quality products and
services to the power industry and related fields.
