The purpose of this book is to serve as a reference text for the maintenance engineer and technician who is working with condition monitoring and predictive machinery maintenance technology. Broadly speaking, the subject is the principles of vibration theory and analysis as they apply to the determination of machine operating characteristics and deficiencies. The first chapter underscores the importance of vibration analysis in the field of predictive maintenance and root cause failure analysis. The chapters on vibration theory and frequency analysis lay the groundwork for the chapter on machine fault diagnostics based on vibration measurement and analysis. A systematic approach is used here to guide the reader through a logical sequence of steps to determine a machine's condition by detailed examination of vibration signatures.

Introduction to Machine Vibration

Glenn D. White

Reliabilityweb.com Press

This book was written based on the knowledge that most companies cannot and do not perform an effective failure identification, analysis, and corrective action system and thus spend a lot of time and money chasing what they consider "bad actors." FRACAS is the best method for continuous improvement of your maintenance strategy through the use of good failure data, accurate analysis, and implementation of an effective corrective action. The corrective action could come in the form of a maintenance strategy adjustment or redesign. Most people do not understand the power of FRACAS, and in this book we will unlock this awesome tool and change the way you view failures. This book can help any company be successful at failure elimination. The only ingredient you will need to add will be "discipline" to ensure everyone follows the program so that the full benefits can be found in lower cost, higher availability, lower replacement cost, and fewer chances of an unknown failure. Contents:Chapter 1: What is FRACAS and Failure Reporting? Chapter 2: The Basics of Failures Chapter 3: Eliminating Failures (Can it be done?) Chapter 4: Understanding FRACAS in Simple Terms Chapter 5: Failure Reports Chapter 6: Weibull Analysis (Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask) Chapter 7: Steps to Implementing an Effective FRACAS Chapter 8: The Cost of Unreliability Chapter 9: Managing Change in a Failure Elimination Organization

FRACAS; Failure Reporting, Analysis, Corrective Action System, Revised Edition

Ricky Smith

Billy Keeter

This book represents a significant step towards improving the knowledge of, and communications between, members of the Maintenance and Reliability Profession. With more than 3000 entries, the compilation reflects a virtual explosion of commonly practiced concepts, ideas, methodologies and various approaches to maintenance and reliability improvements. An additional directory of maintenance and reliability acronyms is included. Maintenance and reliability involves many different people in many different roles. If we are expected to work efficiently, productively, and harmoniously on tasks and projects, there is need for a common language for communication. It is the goal of The Professional's Guide to Maintenance and Reliability Terminology to provide this basis. Robert Baldwin, Ramesh Gulati, and Jerry Kahn, have served the maintenance and reliability profession in many capacities for decades. Together, they have over 100 years of experience working in this field. All are Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (CMRPs).

The Professional’s Guide to Maintenance and Reliability Terminology

Ramesh Gulati

Jerry Kahn

Robert Baldwin

When you implement a new Computerized Maintenance Management or Enterprise Asset Management System, what you are really hoping for is an improvement in productivity. The same holds true when you create a maintenance planning and scheduling program. Performing PM Optimization is often driven by the business desire to increase the productivity of the maintenance workforce. You could make this point about almost any maintenance reliability improvement initiative. Increased productivity is perceived as a business value and that is what most maintenance reliability professionals work to achieve. Increasing productivity and reliability are usually highly desirable goals for most organizations. But how can you be sure your improvement are actually adding business value? At last, a book that will encourage maintenance reliability professionals to measure the success (or failure) of their improvement efforts. With this work, Stephen Thomas has created a simple guide to measuring improvement that is easy to understand, easy to use, and easy to implement. Based on years of practical experience, Thomas has created a low-cost/no-cost measurement process that not only tracks business value but engages the workforce being measured at the same time. This process can be scaled to virtually any size organization. Use this book to ensure that your projects are effective and to get buy-in from stakeholders from the plant floor, accounting, and executive management.

Measuring Maintenance Workforce Productivity - Made Simple

Stephen J. Thomas

Ricky Smith and Jerry Wilson have produced a third edition of this quick, easy read for any organization looking for a number of focused, easily implemented actions which can be expected to produce big improvements in effectiveness. They lay out those critical aspects of Planning & Scheduling without which any Planning and Scheduling system will fail to produce the desired results. Each chapter contains high-lighted Key Principles; which quickly summarize important points. Buy a copy for every manager, supervisor, planner and scheduler! Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: What Is Planning And Scheduling Chapter 2: Planning And Scheduling Objectives Chapter 3: How To Plan And Schedule Chapter 4: Know How To Focus Your Efforts Chapter 5: Guiding Principles For Planning and Scheduling Glossary

Planning & Scheduling Made Simple - 3rd Edition

Jerry, Wilson

This 500 page book covers how to set up MAXIMO for maintenance and Business Performance Management enterprise wide, how to administrate it, and most importantly, how to use it to focus your organization on your core purpose! The book discusses how to avoid common pitfalls in the application of MAXIMO to common Maintenance and Reliability topics and how to obtain the final goal of a MAXIMO Implementation Informed Employee s. The book begins with a strong focus on the topics of Key Performance Indicators, Business Performance Monitors and Balanced Score Cards. There are maintenance and reliability examples throughout the book to support how to develop a blueprint for your process, and what to focus on. The book covers using a blueprint tool for the development of a balanced scorecard for use across your organization or at least your current span of control , and will introduce the concept of a Data Integrity Strategy Map . The latter chapters focus in great detail on getting data out of MAXIMO using little known standard reports, combined with some custom reporting, and add on integration tools. These add to the ability to provide actionable intelligence at all levels of the organization and supports an empowered workforce. Chapters include: CREATING THE VISION PERFORMANCE DASHBOARD S 101 KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS MAXIMO AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT THREE LAYERS OF KPI FUNCTIONALITY KPI APPLICATION FEATURES THE BALANCED SCORECARD IN MAXIMO THE BALANCED SCORECARD WITH KPI AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE MONITORING DASHBOARDS BALANCING THE SCORECARD INTRODUCTION TO BSC IMPLEMENTATION IMPORTANCE OF DATA INFORMATION AND DATA IN ASSET MANAGEMENT MANAGING MAINTENANCE WITH MAXIMO CAPTURING DATA IN MAXIMO ASSET MANAGEMENT THROUGH KPIS AND METRICS REPORTS IN MAXIMO THE HIDDEN SECRETS

The MAXIMO Manager's Guide to Business Performance Management

Richard Taggs

Philip Sage

Monica Osana

Dante Tepora

John Mark de Asis

At last, a book written by and for Infrared Thermographers. Although this book does cover most popular applications for Infrared Thermography, it provides deeper learning by explaining the physics and theory of this technology. Readers will be empowered to discover anomalies that could shut down your organization or worse, cause a serious accident or injury. Read this book to begin your journey to becoming a professional infrared thermographer or to refresh your knowledge if you already have some experience with infrared thermography. This book includes: Table of Figures Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Physics Chapter 3: Infrared Thermography, Thermal Analysis, and Temperature Chapter 4: Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer Chapter 5: Electromagnetic Radiation Basics Chapter 6: Infrared Radiation Physics Chapter 7: Real-World Infrared Radiation Chapter 8: The Infrared Image Chapter 9: Infrared Lenses Chapter 10: Infrared Windows Chapter 11: Applications Conclusion

Basic Infrared Thermography Principles

Wayne Ruddock

Business & Money

This is a book about common sense. It is also about doing the right thing. It s about making more with less and each of us doing our part to make our manufacturing companies more reliable, energy-efficient, cost-effective, and competitive. It is also about being a steward to God s earth, knowing that what we leave behind we leave to our children and to their children. This is a book about being smart, being responsible, and being successful. The book includes a comprehensive array of testing techniques and manufacturing systems that can be used by company owners, executives, managers, engineers, supervisors, technicians, mechanics, electricians, and operators. Chapters 1 and 2 are overviews of precision alignment/balancing and ultrasonic leak detection, respectively. Chapters 3 through 10 are discussions of reliability issues associated with the following specific systems: electric motors, HVAC/exhaust, air/gas conveyance, compressed air, refrigeration, hydraulic, electric power, and steam and condensates. Chapter 11 is a presentation of two actual case studies, and Chapter 12 is a description of the industry expert and leader in reliability engineering. The authors write about some common systems and technologies where if businesses focused some time and effort, they would see a quick return on investment and an improvement in reliability. Read, study, apply, and become more competitive. Reliability concepts work!

Clean, Green and Reliable

Doug Plucknette

Chris Colson

This book describes several of the more common and popular methods, including case studies, being used by manufacturing companies to improve their business. Even before we cover these tools and strategies, we cover several fundamental issues-if present, almost any tool will be effective, but if absent, almost not tool will work, i.e., the need for leadership and several models thereto for creating an environment that brings out the best in people, the need for innovation throughout the organization, including what I call "big innovation" - R&amp;D and new product/process development, but also "little innovation"- using the proper tools in a disciplined way to lower our costs and improve quality so that we have higher margins to pay for the big innovation. We will also cover the use of cross-functional teams in applying these methods, and a process for managing change, as well as a model for measuring performance and demonstrating that operational and business goals have been achieved. Finally, we will review a process that I call business level failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) for identifying the right projects for improvement, and for selecting the right tools for that projects. Ron Moore s 2nd edition of What Tool? When? A Management Guide For Selecting The Right Improvement Tool takes a quantum leap over the 1st edition with a new chapter on using Weibull Analysis methods to quickly and easily separate operations-controlled losses versus maintenance-controlled losses. The new edition also includes additional data on the poor success rate related to implementation of the improvement tools as well as additonal information on organizational alignment. It provides additional information on managing cultural change, and particularly that the best way to change and sustain an organizational culture is by first changing management behavior. It also adds additional clarity and data to specific tools such as TPM, RCM, PDM, and lubricating practices. This book reviews the following: *Lean manufacturing *Kaizen, including 5S, Kanban, quick changeover, and standardization *Total productive maintenance *Six Sigma *Supply chain management *Reliability-centered maintenance *Predictive maintenance (or condition monitoring) *Root cause analysis Additional information will be provided in the appendices regarding: *Planning and scheduling *Performance measurement *Other improvement tools

What Tool? When? A Management Guide for Selecting the Right Improvement Tools, Updated 2nd Edition

Ron Moore

The first volume in this series begins by detailing the importance of preventive maintenance to an overall maintenance strategy. The text clearly illustrates how the components of any maintenance strategy are interlinked with dependencies and the performance measures necessary to properly manage the preventive maintenance program. A process flow diagram details the steps of developing the preventive maintenance program, and the appendixes contain numerous examples of preventive maintenance inspections for the reader to begin applying to their program immediately.

Maintenance Strategy Series Volume 1 - Preventive Maintenance

Terry Wireman

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