Meet Our Expert – Robert Scott
Robert (Bob) Scott has more than 35 years of technical experience with lubricants, lubrication and related machinery, almost twenty of which include owning and operating his own lubrication consulting firm. Prior to operating his own business, Bob spent almost 20 years with Shell Canada Products Ltd. where he gained laboratory and field experience in the development of lubricants, technical marketing, industrial lubricants and fuel sales.
Bob has written and presented technical papers to lubricant technical societies and lubrication conferences. He has contributed significantly to the STLE Alberta section Basic Handbook of Lubrication published in 2003 and 2011, and is the principle author of the Practical Handbook of Machinery Lubrication, Fourth Edition (2012).
Bob holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He has been certified as a Certified Lubrication Specialist (CLS) and Oil Monitoring Analyst (OMA) Level II by the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE). Bob is also certified as a Machinery Lubrication Technician (MLT) Level II, Machinery Lubricant Analyst (MLA) Level III and Laboratory Lubricant Analysis (LLA) Level II by the International Council for Machinery Lubrication (ICML).