Maximizing machinery uptime
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 Mod...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam Boston
Elsevier Gulf Professional Pub.
c2006
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| Series: | Practical machinery management for process plants
v. 5 |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
Table of Contents:
- Maximizing Machinery Uptime
- Contents
- Acknowledgement
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Definitions: Reliability and Uptime
- Or: The meaning of reliability
- 3 Uptime as probability of success
- 4 Estimating machinery reliability
- 5 Is there a universal approach to predicting machinery uptime?
- 6 Predicting uptime of turbomachinery
- 7 Failure mode and effect analysis
- 8 Fault tree analysis
- 9 Machinery risk and hazard assessment
- 10 Machinery system availability analysis
- 11 Practical field uptime assessment
- 12 Life cycle analysis
- 13 Start with good specifications
- 14 Good installation makes a difference
- 15 Proper operation is key to machinery uptime
- 16 Good maintenance is important
- 17 Continuous improvement-a key to machinery uptime
- 18 Review of mechanical structures and piping for machinery
