The COMADIT Prize

Award criteria

Purpose: The COMADIT Prize is awarded annually by the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing to recognise a significant contribution over a period of at least 5-10 years through research and development in any branch of condition monitoring to the benefit of industry or society.
 
Details of the award: The prize will be in the form of a certificate and will be backed by a cash sum of £350. Invitations to sponsor the prize will be issued each year to all Corporate members of the Institute. When more than one organisation desires to be the sponsor, the selection shall be by lot. The sponsor’s name will be prominently mentioned in all publicity associated with the prize for the year in question and will be featured on the Honours Board at the Institute HQ.

Eligibility: The prize may be won by any research worker or group. 

This is intended to recognise contributions over a period of at least 5-10 years.

The proposer of the award should be a voting member of the Institute. If they are not, they will need to ensure the application is endorsed by an Institute voting member.

Frequency: The prize will be awarded annually and will only be issued if suitable nominations are received.

Nomination arrangements: Nominations should be submitted by email to: karen.cambridge@bindt.org

Nominations for the award will be reviewed by the CM Technical Committee (CMTC). If there is only one nomination, then the CMTC should vote to confirm whether the nomination is eligible and, if so, to approve the award. 

If there is more than one nomination, then the entries should be sent for judging by a panel set up for the purpose. Four members of the panel are to be appointed by the CMTC. Each judge will be invited to score the entries on a point scale of 0 to 3 and send the scores to Karen Cambridge, who will total the scores, and the entry receiving the most points will be declared the winner.  

Awarding arrangements: The prize will normally be presented at the CM Annual Conference during the Conference Dinner by the Chair of the CMTC.

Committee: CM Technical Committee.

Winners

The COMADIT Prize for 2021 is awarded to David Manning-Ohren, who is an expert in his field of implementing condition monitoring (CM) to major plant and assets, enabling cost-effective monitoring to be carried out.

A time-served electrical technician, David Manning-Ohren has been a leader in the development of reliability services within ERIKS, not only for condition monitoring techniques but also for the integration of ERIKS engineering services to dove-tail with the company’s offering. He is involved full-time with the technical management of the smart asset management and is an active participant in BINDT condition monitoring competence development, as well as assisting the British Standards Institution (BSI) in the development of condition monitoring standards.

Outside of work, David is a triathlete of almost 20 years, has raced for Great Britain at age-group level and has completed 16 Iron distance races. He also coaches the sport and two of the athletes he has coached represented England and Wales at this year’s Commonwealth Games.

Past winners:		Sponsors:
2008	Prof A D Hope	Laser Optical Engineering Ltd
2009	Dr T Holroyd	J R Technology and RMS Ltd
2010	Mr C Pearson	Staffordshire University
2011	Dr M Walters	RMS Ltd
2012	Mr S Mills and Mr D Whittle	SpectraQuest Inc
2013	Mr S Greenfield and Mr D Shorten	Ardrox Engineering
2014	Dr J Twiddle and Dr S Muthuraman	PCN Working Groups
2015	Mr K Seaborne and Dr J H Yebra	PCN Working Groups
2016	Professor Len Gelman	PCN Working Groups
2017	Professor Ling Wang	PCN Working Groups
2018	Professor Andrew Starr	PCN Working Groups
2019	Professor Siamak Noroozi	PCN Working Groups
2020	Professor Andrew Ball	PCN Working Groups