Mr. Marscher is President & Technical Director of MSI. He has spent his career of over 30 years involved in the design, development, and troubleshooting of compressors, turbines, pumps, and other turbomachinery. His capabilities and experience include finite element analysis, rotordynamic analysis, vibration testing, predictive maintenance, and mechanical design, including the design of advanced (including magnetic) bearings and seals. In the experimental area, Mr. Marscher is known for his approach of combining advanced test techniques with computer analysis to solve mechanical problems in rotating machinery. His innovative vibration test procedures won the $5000 Dresser Creativity Award in 1986. His turbine blade rub analysis method won the ASLE Hodson Award in 1983.

Mr. Marscher also pioneered the use of finite element analysis in the prediction of casing stress and split flange leakage, and the mechanical effects of piping nozzle loads. He has developed computer programs which automatically set up finite element models for complicated centrifugal machinery components, such as double suction casings, impellers, and entire vertical pump assemblies. Mr. Marscher is the originator of the “time-averaged pulse” (TAPTM) vibration test procedure, which has led to the solution of pump, compressor, turbine, and motor problems in over 200 Power Plant, Water, Wastewater, Chemical, and API installations.

For ASME, Mr. Marscher retired this year as Chair of the Predictive Maintenance committee, was Organizing and Presiding Chair of the 1995 ASME/STLE Tribology Conference, and was Organizing and Presiding Chair of the 1993 RoCon rotating machinery conference. For the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers STLE he is a Fellow, was the 1998/1999 President, is past Chair of their Annual Meeting, Awards, and Wear Committees, is Associate Editor of the Tribology Transactions and Tribology & Lube Technology magazines, was Chair of the Oil Monitoring Analysis committee, and Chair of the Seals Technical Committee. For ASTM, for 25 years he has been on the standards voting committees for wear and erosion, and for metal fatigue. Currently, he is a voting member of ISO/ANSI standards committee S2/TC108, which creates all new and revised ISO specifications concerning reliability and vibration/ acoustic monitoring for compressors, turbines, pumps, and other rotating machinery.