Maintenance & Reliability
Case 17: Wreck of a centrifugal pump
Understanding the entire flow system is important when determining the cause of a failure
Applications for multifunction pressure instruments
Case histories show how these devices can improve reliability and lower costs
Management’s role in achieving and sustaining reliability focus
This column has been published for over 13 years and although its content was, and still is, primarily targeting the reliability professional, many of its musings contained messages tha..
Top of line corrosion in industrial wastewater pipelines
Here are the causes and the solution
HP Reliability: Organizing to be reliability-focused
This column has often mentioned the need for industry to abandon its repair focus and to move toward becoming almost exclusively reliability-focused. There are many ways to reach this g..
Case 16: A piping failure due to water hammer
System upsets can develop high piping loads
HP Reliability: Auditing vertical pump mechanical reliability
Vertical pumps are important for major process plants. Available in numerous configurations, they excel in such areas as ease of multistaging, virtually unlimited installation depth bel..
Dealing with deceptive failure modes
Chemical failure mechanisms can disguise themselves as mechanical and vice versa
HP Reliability: Ask manufacturers to upgrade component life
Chances are you are working with some equipment and component suppliers that see no reason to offer you upgraded components. As an example, your seal vendor may be among those that are ..
Case 15: The thermally bowed shaft
Just a slight rub can self-generate more heat
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