Maintenance & Reliability
HP Reliability: Consider axial thrust monitoring
Centrifugal pumps and most other dynamic fluid machines incorporate impellers and similar rotating elements that generate axial thrust. This thrust must be taken up by a suitably dimens..
HP Reliability: Purposeful specifications will save you money . . .
. . . As if you needed to be reminded, you might say. Nevertheless, industry continues to experience equipment and component failures that could have been avoided by simple root-cause a..
Case 12: A compressor rod failure
Sometimes a troubleshooter has to be a detective
Achieve world-class maintenance turnarounds Table 1
  Table 1. Turnaround management process phases ..
Achieve world-class maintenance turnarounds
Incorporate these work processes and key elements
HP Reliability: Grease lubrication controversies resolved
An electric power producer was understandably puzzled when, about a year ago, it received a memorandum from one of the premier manufacturers of rolling element bearings stating, in effe..
Integrated approach to materials management: a case study
Business process re-engineering provided a substantial improvement to this function
Integrated approach to materials management: a case study Table 3
  Table 3. Total improvement   ..
Prevent fires in thermal oil heat transfer systems
Follow these selection, installation and maintenance guidelines
Improve estimations for dynamic pressure waves from an explosion
Using a polar coordinate system, engineers can estimate risks on buildings and structures during the design phase
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