Episode #14
Khashayar Hajiahmad
In this episode of Beyond the Blend, Steve Knapp is joined by Khashayar Hajiahmad, a machinery lubrication and reliability specialist whose career has taken him from a young mechanical engineer in Iran to SKF, Oman, EPT Clean Oil and now a new chapter in training and consultancy. Khash shares the story behind his relentless curiosity and appetite for learning, including the mentors who helped shape him, the professional qualifications he sees as a “driving licence” for lubrication, and why experience, knowledge and relationships must work together. He also explains why lubrication is still too often treated as a consumable rather than an asset, and why technical expertise only creates value when it can be translated into something people can understand and act upon. We also explore the more personal side of Khash: his extraordinary commitment to sharing knowledge, losing a LinkedIn community of 55,000 followers and starting again, the global WhatsApp communities he has built, and why he is already teaching his young son about viscosity, grease and reliability. It is a conversation about far more than lubrication. It is about curiosity, generosity, resilience and the responsibility that comes with knowing something worth sharing.
