Key Features
*Provides the tools to drastically improve machinery productivity and performance
*Bridges the gap between the theory of "reliability engineering" and the practical day-to-day measures that lead to machinery uptime
*Authoritative reference for maximizing the uptime of process equipment
Description
The authors use their decades of experience and draw upon real-world examples to demonstrate that the application of their techniques provides a basis for equipment management, uptime maximization, and reduced maintenance costs. The text explores reliability assessment techniques such as Failure Mode, Effect Analysis, and Fault Tree Analysis of commonly encountered rotating machinery. These are all highly effective techniques that the engineer can apply to maximize uptime and thereby maximize production and profitability.
Readership
Maintenance Engineers, Reliability Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Process Engineers, Technicians
Maximizing Machinery Uptime, 1st Edition
Acknowledgement
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Definitions: Reliability and Uptime
Chapter 3: Uptime as probability of success
Chapter 4: Estimating machinery reliability
Chapter 5: Is there a universal approach to predicting machinery uptime?
Chapter 6: Predicting uptime of turbomachinery
Chapter 7: Failure mode and effect analysis
Chapter 8: Fault tree analysis
Chapter 9: Machinery risk and hazard assessment
Chapter 10: Machinery system availability analysis
Chapter 11: Practical field uptime assessment
Chapter 12: Life cycle analysis
Chapter 13: Start with good specifications
Chapter 14: Good installation makes a difference
Chapter 15: Proper operation is key to machinery uptime
Chapter 16: Good maintenance is important
Chapter 17: Continuous improvement-a key to machinery uptime
Chapter 18: Review of mechanical structures and piping for machinery
Appendix A: The coin toss case
Appendix B: Safety design checklists for equipment reliability specialists
Appendix C: Machinery system completeness and uptime appraisal forms
Glossary
Index
