- Lock the Mechanical Seal locking collar screws after completing the shaft axial displacement adjustments, shaft alignment procedure. It helps to keep the seal faces from getting damaged.

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Asset Management

Plant Failures from an Insurance Perspective

From an asset management perspective, it is necessary to understand the root cause of plant failure in order establish effective condition monitoring and asset management strategies. AIG andand 4.

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Asset Management

Excess Capacity / Underutilized Assets

With the current economic recession, most companies are not running their assets at full capacity. This is highlighted by the US government report on industrial utilization. It says: 'In July

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) Definition

MTBF is the arithmetical mean of the time between a number of failures of a single system or device, or all failures of a population of similar systems or devices. There are a variety of ways

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Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

RCM as Risk Management

RCM is mainly used in industry to develop a list of maintenance task or maintenance strategy. The maintenance tasks developed using RCM are based on the reliability of a system, equipment or

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Leadership for Reliability

Lack of Integrated Missions, Plans and Incentives

All units of the organization share guilt for existing entrenchment of the reactive culture:

Upper management espouses reliability but fails to budget and staff accordingly. Cost reduction is

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Why Do RCM Implementations Fail?

RCM Implementations don't fail, believe me if you understand what your getting into upfront, use a proven process to select your asset for analysis AND you commit the resources, your

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Work Execution Management

The No. 1 PM Law You Should Know

The number one law of economics you need to know is based on a principle discovered over 200 years ago. You've probably heard of it - it's called the Law of Diminishing Returns.

As any good MBA

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Asset Condition Management

How Fast is the Data Collection Speed of Your Vibration Data Collector?

How fast is the data collection speed of your vibration data collector? You may feel that this is not an important characteristic. Does it really matter if a data collector is one or two seconds ...

Asset Condition Management

Visual Inspection Checklist

Visual inspection of an operating machine while vibration testing is important, for valuable clues to machinery condition can often be uncovered. RPM and discharge pressure etc..., should be

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Asset Condition Management

Reflection and Emissivity

Thermographers continually have to deal with the issues presented by reflection and emissivity. Electrical cabinets are full of different materials of varying emissivity, they can range from .95

Asset Management

Reliability Growth or Degradation

Once a production line is installed and commissioned and the optimum maintenance program instituted, the stage is set for attaining maximum reliability possible at anytime in the life cycle of ...

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