Machinery Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting
Practical Machinery Management for Process Plants
By- Heinz P. Bloch, Consulting Engineer, Montgomery, TX, USA
- Fred K. Geitner, Professional Engineer, Ontario, Canada.
Solve the machinery failure problems costing you time and money with this classic, comprehensive guide to analysis and troubleshooting
- Provides detailed, complete and accurate information on anticipating risk of component failure and avoiding equipment downtime
- Includes numerous photographs of failed parts to ensure you are familiar with the visual evidence you need to recognize
- Covers proven approaches to failure definition and offers failure identification and analysis methods that can be applied to virtually all problem situations
- Demonstrates with examples how the progress and results of failure analysis and troubleshooting efforts can be documented and monitored
Audience
Engineers involved with the design, maintenance, and reliability of production machinery. Equipment Engineers, Reliability Engineers and Mechanical Engineers who have responsibility for improving equipment performance.
Hardbound, 760 Pages
Published: August 2012
Imprint: Butterworth Heinemann
ISBN: 978-0-12-386045-3
Contents
The Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting System
Metallurgical Failure Analysis
Machinery Component Failure Analysis
Machinery Troubleshooting
Vibration Analysis
Generalized Machinery Problem-Solving Sequence
Statistical Approaches in Machinery Problem Solving
Sneak Analysis
Formalized Failure Reporting as a Teaching Tool
The Seven-Cause Category Approach to Root-Cause Failure Analysis
Knowledge-Based Systems for Machinery Failure Diagnosis
Training and Organizing for Successful Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting
Appendices
Index

