Maintenance & Reliability
Eliminate risky trends in reliability management
Follow these guidelines to improve process safety and reduce maintenance costs
HP Reliability: Update your grease compatibility know-how
We haven't made a survey as to which of the hundreds of "HPIn Reliability" columns published each month over a span of more than 17 years merit being updated. Some are "evergreen," but a few might be ..
Risk-based inspection—an efficient maintenance tool
The technique is an integral part of asset integrity management
Performance benchmarking update: expectations and reality
Here's how first-quartile companies optimize maintenance and improve 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..
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