A decade in the making. Founded by practitioners who lived the challenges, built on the belief that Africa’s industrial professionals deserve a world-class society of their own.
We pursue this mission by building a unified community of practitioners, providing access to world-class knowledge and certification pathways, and making the strategic case for our profession in every industry sector on the continent.
We envision a future in which African maintenance and reliability professionals are globally recognised, equipped with the finest knowledge and tools, and driving measurable competitive advantage for the organisations and economies they serve.
We uphold the highest standards in everything we do — from the content we publish to the events we convene and the certifications we endorse.
The most durable progress comes when practitioners share knowledge freely across borders, industries, and generations. Community is our greatest strategic asset.
We celebrate African voices, solutions, and leadership in our global profession — because the answers to Africa’s industrial challenges will come from within Africa.
Every programme, publication, and partnership translates to tangible professional and organisational value for our members and the industries they serve.
In 2016, Jonathan David made a decision that would take a decade to fully realise. Having spent years working in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector — at facilities run by Shell and later Renaissance Africa Energy — he had seen firsthand what world-class maintenance and reliability looked like, and how far the gap was between that standard and the average practice across Africa’s industrial landscape.
The question that drove him was not abstract. It was operational. Why do African plants run with lower reliability than they should? Why do African maintenance professionals lack access to the same quality of peer exchange, certification support, and technical community that practitioners in North America and Europe take for granted? And what would it take to build that infrastructure on this continent?
The Maintenance Institute Africa, which Jonathan founded, became the first answer. Through TMI Africa, he built an annual conference series — The Maintenance Summit — that grew from a small gathering in Port Harcourt to a recognised continental event attracting practitioners, industry leaders, and international speakers. He ran CMRP preparatory programmes, trained over 300 professionals across three continents, and built a community that proved there was both the hunger and the talent to support a serious professional society in Africa.
Along the way, Jonathan achieved what few professionals on the continent have managed: he became a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP), a Certified Reliability Leader (CRL), a Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB), a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants (FIMC), and a Certified Management Consultant (CMC). He delivered over $11 million in documented maintenance savings at Shell, reduced operational plant trips by 96%, and received the Senior Vice President’s Award for Digitalisation and Technology Impact in 2022.
ASMR — the African Society for Maintenance and Reliability — is the culmination of that decade of work. It is the formal professional body that the continent’s maintenance and reliability community has needed and deserved. A place to belong. A standard to aspire to. A voice that speaks for the profession in Africa, to Africa, and about Africa — on a global stage.
Jonathan serves as the Founding President of ASMR, bringing to the role not just his credentials and career, but the lived experience of building something from nothing in an environment where the default answer was always that it could not be done.
ASMR was founded from within the TMI Africa ecosystem — Africa’s leading maintenance and reliability training and events organisation, established in Port Harcourt in 2015.
TMI Africa is the operational backbone of ASMR — providing event management, training delivery, content infrastructure, and community engagement across Nigeria and beyond.