Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers

Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers

Author: Ricky Smith

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Published: 2011-03-31

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0080552072

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Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers will give the engineer the "have to have information. It will help instill knowledge on a daily basis, to do his or her job and to maintain and assure reliable equipment to help reduce costs. This book will be an easy reference for engineers and managers needing immediate solutions to everyday problems. Most civil, mechanical, and electrical engineers will face issues relating to maintenance and reliability, at some point in their jobs. This will become their "go to book. Not an oversized handbook or a theoretical treatise, but a handy collection of graphs, charts, calculations, tables, curves, and explanations, basic "rules of thumb that any engineer working with equipment will need for basic maintenance and reliability of that equipment.• Access to quick information which will help in day to day and long term engineering solutions in reliability and maintenance • Listing of short articles to help assist engineers in resolving problems they face • Written by two of the top experts in the country


Plant Maintenance And Reliability Engineering

Plant Maintenance And Reliability Engineering

Author: Raju

Publisher: Cengage Learning India

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9788131514696

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Plant Maintenance and Reliability Engineering provides both theoretical and practical knowledge together with the latest technological concepts and research in the field. The topics covered in this book are an integral part of the syllabi in most of the universities in India and meet the requirements of the course plant maintenance and reliability engineering taught in mechanical engineering and all allied branches.This book aims at providing the readers an insight into the working and maintenance of plant equipment and machinery. The text substantially deals with the emerging issues faced by plant engineers on a day-to-day basis and discusses the measures to address such issues. This book emphasises on the safety of workplace and workers and discusses the increasing role of plant managers in the corporate management. This text is precise, systematic, and uses an easy-to-understand language and is enriched with several illustrative examples.


Plant Equipment & Maintenance Engineering Handbook

Plant Equipment & Maintenance Engineering Handbook

Author: Duncan Richardson

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2013-07-22

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 0071809902

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The Best On-the-Job Guide to Industrial Plant Equipment and Systems This practical, one-of-a-kind field manual explains how equipment in industrial facilities operates and covers all aspects of commissioning relevant to engineers and project managers. Plant Equipment and Maintenance Engineering Handbook contains a data log of all major industrial and power plant components, describes how they function, and includes rules of thumb for operation. Hundreds of handy reference materials, such as calculations and tables, plus a comprehensive listing of electrical parts with common supplier nomenclature are also included in this time-saving resource. FEATURES DETAILED COVERAGE OF: Compressors * Air conditioning * Ash handling * Bearings and lubrication * Boilers * Chemical cleaning and Flushing * Condensers and circulating water systems * Controls * Conveyor systems * Cooling towers * Corrosion Deaerators * Diesel and gas turbines * Electrical * Fans * Fire protection * Fuels and combustion * Piping * Pumps Turbines * Vibration * Water treatment


Maintenance, Replacement, and Reliability

Maintenance, Replacement, and Reliability

Author: Andrew K.S. Jardine

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2013-05-28

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 146655486X

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A completely revised and updated edition of a bestseller, Maintenance, Replacement, and Reliability: Theory and Applications, Second Edition supplies the tools needed for making data-driven physical asset management decisions. The well-received first edition quickly became a mainstay for professors, students, and professionals, with its clear prese


100 Years in Maintenance and Reliability

100 Years in Maintenance and Reliability

Author: V. Narayan

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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Describes 42 real-life events and/or situations in the careers of the three authors from which they gained insights into the applicable best practices in maintenance and reliability.


Improving Maintenance and Reliability Through Cultural Change

Improving Maintenance and Reliability Through Cultural Change

Author: Stephen J. Thomas

Publisher: Industrial Press Inc.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780831131906

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This unique and innovative book explains how to improve your maintenance and reliability performance at the plant level by changing the organizations culture. It is specifically intended for middle managers in the manufacturing and process industries. This book demystifies the concept of organizational culture and links it with the eight elements of change: leadership, work process, structure, group learning, technology, communication, interrelationships, and rewards. If you want to break the cycle of failed improvement programs and instead use cultural change to help make significant and lasting improvements in plant performance, this book will show you how. Features Explains in-depth the eight elements of change and how they relate to cultural change. Discusses cultural change with a reliability focus.Includes a PowerPoint presentation with audio on the enclosed CD-ROM, together with a web survey model, the Web of Organizational Change.


Thermal Power Plant Performance Analysis

Thermal Power Plant Performance Analysis

Author: Gilberto Francisco Martha de Souza

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-01-04

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1447123093

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The analysis of the reliability and availability of power plants is frequently based on simple indexes that do not take into account the criticality of some failures used for availability analysis. This criticality should be evaluated based on concepts of reliability which consider the effect of a component failure on the performance of the entire plant. System reliability analysis tools provide a root-cause analysis leading to the improvement of the plant maintenance plan. Taking in view that the power plant performance can be evaluated not only based on thermodynamic related indexes, such as heat-rate, Thermal Power Plant Performance Analysis focuses on the presentation of reliability-based tools used to define performance of complex systems and introduces the basic concepts of reliability, maintainability and risk analysis aiming at their application as tools for power plant performance improvement, including: · selection of critical equipment and components, · definition of maintenance plans, mainly for auxiliary systems, and · execution of decision analysis based on risk concepts. The comprehensive presentation of each analysis allows future application of the methodology making Thermal Power Plant Performance Analysis a key resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in mechanical and nuclear engineering.


Engineering Systems Reliability, Safety, and Maintenance

Engineering Systems Reliability, Safety, and Maintenance

Author: B.S. Dhillon

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-04-21

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1351662708

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Today, engineering systems are an important element of the world economy and each year billions of dollars are spent to develop, manufacture, operate, and maintain various types of engineering systems around the globe. Many of these systems are highly sophisticated and contain millions of parts. For example, a Boeing jumbo 747 is made up of approximately 4.5 million parts including fasteners. Needless to say, reliability, safety, and maintenance of systems such as this have become more important than ever before. Global competition and other factors are forcing manufacturers to produce highly reliable, safe, and maintainable engineering products. Therefore, there is a definite need for the reliability, safety, and maintenance professionals to work closely during design and other phases. Engineering Systems Reliability, Safety, and Maintenance: An Integrated Approach eliminates the need to consult many different and diverse sources in the hunt for the information required to design better engineering systems.


Maintenance and Operational Reliability

Maintenance and Operational Reliability

Author: Donald H. Nyman

Publisher: Industrial Press

Published: 2021-09

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780831136611

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The quest for reliability is long overdue! In the case of many operations, realization of sustained reliability is still a work in progress. Very few organizations have completed the journey to world-class reliability. The vast majority still operate within a reactive culture, allowing response to repetitive failures to consume an excessive proportion of already limited maintenance resources, and leaving too few for performance of any proactive activities. In today's competitive international environment, enterprise survival is a battle of the fittest. To survive, organizations must achieve "world-class" stature, characterized by wellness, readiness, and application required for a company to successfully compete globally. That's why Maintenance and Operational Reliability is so important. This work is organized by the foundation and 5 Pillars of Maintenance/Reliability Excellence, plus 24 Building Blocks, as depicted throughout the book. This pillar graphic shows the functions, management techniques, systems, information sources and performance management vital to the maintenance and reliability process, and also serves as an important visual aid for the education of the entire organization. So, how is the ultimate, but challenging reliability goal to be achieved? Are you prepared to manage, support, process, and interpret the magnitude of information in real time, critical to making the right business decisions to achieve a competitive advantage? The authors, two veteran maintenance and reliability experts, have collected all the essentials leading to reliability here, in one practical resource, connecting and sequencing the integral pieces for world-class reliability. Features Guides readers through the journey from classic reactive repair upon failure to reliable, proactive maintenance, engineered to preclude failure and, ultimately, to sustain reliability. Clarifies roles and responsibilities of involved functions while explaining control tools to be deployed by each position. Provides the overriding business justification required to gain senior management commitment.


Reliability-centered Maintenance

Reliability-centered Maintenance

Author: John Moubray

Publisher: Industrial Press Inc.

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780831131463

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Completely reorganised and comprehensively rewritten for its second edition, this guide to reliability-centred maintenance develops techniques which are practised by over 250 affiliated organisations worldwide.