Maintenance & Reliability
HP Reliability: Justification for machine condition monitoring
Continuous operational condition monitoring implies that machine condition data are collected and evaluated in real time. Of special interest here are data that could rapidly change and are tell-tale ..
Noise pollution in refineries
This often overlooked problem is manageable
Plan to improve plant reliability
Here's how to attain world-class operation that will result in large economic benefits
HP Reliability: Lubricating slow-speed rolling element bearings
A sales engineer visited a customer with different pieces of processing equipment that included an oven. The customer asked a lubrication-related question and received an answer from the sales enginee..
Optimizing preventive maintenance by combining discrete event simulation and genetic algorithms
Cost and benefit criteria are applied to a multi-equipment system
HP Reliability: Counting interventions instead of MTBF
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to meet a very experienced machinery reliability professional at a refinery in the UK. Among his many tasks was tracking mean-time-between-failures (MTBFs) of..
Case 40: Troubleshooting gear face damage
A simple analysis can help in determining the root cause of the failure
Reliable sealing technologies reduce maintenance demands
The latest connection and sealing options offer zero-leak integrity and minimized maintenance
HP Reliability: Improvements in floating-ring compressor seals
As is so often the case, compressor components undergo design changes as experience accumulates. Over the years, improved floating-ring shaft seals have become key elements in the uptime improvement ..
Maintaining instruments used to determine biodiesel quality
Using these necessary steps will assure proper analysis of B100

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