Maintenance Management Best Practices

Failure of Machines and Inspection Based Failure Analysis

Causes of Machinery Failure

• Wear Mechanisms
• Fatigue
• Fretting
• Corrosion and Electrolytics

Fundamental Machine Problems

• Balance Problems
• Alignment Problems
• Machinery Mounting Problems

Component Failure

• Plain Bearings
• Rolling Element Bearings
• Couplings
• Seals
• Gears Drives
• Belt Drives

Statistical Failure Analysis and Reliability

• Job Feedback and the Importance of History Records
• Pareto Effects
• Elementary Statistics
• Collection, Analysis, Representation and Interpretation of Statistical Data
• Reliability Models
• Maintenance Cost Optimisation

Condition Based Maintenance

The Condition Based Approach

• What to Monitor and Where
• Condition Monitoring Systems
• Trending of Monitored Data
• Frequency of Measurement
• Parameter Symptom Limits
• Remaining Life Prediction

Machinery Condition Monitoring

• General Purpose CM
• Thermal Monitoring
• Lubricant Monitoring
• The Essentials of Vibration Monitoring
• What is Vibration
• How to Measure Vibration
• Where to Measure Vibration
• How to Represent Vibration

Vibration Analysis

• Overall and Spectral Representation
• The Big Five Machine Faults
• Detecting Faults Using Vibration
• Diagnosing Faults Using Vibration