All mechanical equipment in motion generates a vibration profile, or signature, that reflects its operating condition. This is true regardless of speed or whether the mode of operation is rotation, reciprocation, or linear motion. Vibration analysis is applicable to all mechanical equipment, although a common—yet invalid—assumption is that it is limited to simple rotating machinery with run…
The profitability of any industry, in any technological sector-power, process, manufacturing, mineral extraction, transport, communication-will be profoundly influenced by the reliability and performance of the plant which it uses. It is therefore vital that all possible measures are taken to maximize the productivity in use, and to minimize the maintenance costs and the downtime, of that plant…
This “Maintenance Engineering Handbook” is written, almost exclusively, by those people who have had to face the acute never-ending problems of equipment failures, repairs, and upkeep, day by day, hour by hour, midnight shift by midnight shift. They understand better than most the extraordinary demands that every maintenance manager, planner, and craftsperson must face and overcome to me…