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Honeywell To Supply Control Systems For New Process Plants at Russian Refinery

Experion PKS to be Deployed in Third Construction Stage of Antipinsky Oil Refinery
Refinery Doubles Capacity to Help Meet Demand for Clean Fuels, Oil Products
Selection Result of Honeywell’s Focus on High-Growth Regions
Follows Opening of New Honeywell Office in Tyumen, Russia, Serving Oil and Gas Customers in Western Siberia

Reliability Engineering For Maintenance - Where Does It Fit In My Overall Asset Management Program?

In this webinar, Terrence O'Hanlon, CEO and Publisher, Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine and Ramesh Gulati, Author, Maintenance Reliability Best Practices discuss the importance of Reliability Engineering for Maintenance in your organization's overall asset reliability program.

Model predicts risk of women engineers leaving profession

The loss of skilled women from engineering remains a concern as the profession continues to be male dominated. However, new and developing research has identified some of the key factors and indicators that could help predict and prevent those women most at risk of leaving the engineering profession.

Predictive Service Strengthens Service Delivery Capabilities in Europe, Middle East, and Africa

Predictive Service has announced the strategic acquisition of the infrared testing division of Techmadex S.A., a Poland-based purveyor of maintenance services and industrial automation systems integration. This new partnership gives Predictive Service a stronger presence in Europe, reinforcing the company’s long-standing commitment to delivering a full range of services to clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Napoleon Engineering Services Announces Worldwide Partnership with Embassy Global, LLC

March 13, 2013, Olean, New York, USA - Napoleon Engineering Services (NES) (www.nesbearings.com), an AS9100C certified custom bearing manufacturing, inspection and testing facility, has announced a 2013 worldwide strategic business development partnership with Embassy Global, LLC (www.embassyglobalpr.com).

Valve Shipments to Grow 3% in 2013; Continued Growth Bodes Well for Economy

(March 25, 2013-Washington, D.C.) Shipments for the U.S. industrial valve industry will grow 3% in 2013, increasing to nearly $4.3 billion, according to figures released by the Valve Manufacturers Association (VMA) as part of its annual market forecast. The increase marks the fourth consecutive year of growth following the recession, and exceeds the industry’s previous 10-year peak in 2008.

SDP/SI Announces the Donation of Drive Components for NASA Lunar Rover Challenge Contest

(New Hyde Park, NY; March 2013)—Stock Drive Products / Sterling Instrument (SDP/SI) announces the donation of components to Team SpacePRIDE for the NASA Lunar Rover Challenge 2013, enabling the team to better compete by improving robotic and automation technology for space applications.

Where is the Leprechaun? Root cause analysis of a planetary drive train

by Marcel Bélanger

The goal of this article is to explain the process of oil selection after gear failure of a planetary gearbox. Some mechanical failures show little sign of degradation. A good understanding of gear dynamics and failure stages allows for the selection of a different oil grade for this specific application. This will reduce the fatigue wear on the low speed sun gear.

ISA publishes New Book That Reveals Proven Ways to Protect National Infrastructure

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA (11 February 2013) – The International Society of Automation (ISA) announces that it has published a new book that outlines clear and proven security principles, practices and standards that, when properly applied, can safeguard nations’ critical infrastructure, defense establishment, and production capabilities from the risks of cyberattack.

Asset Management

Management Resources Group, Inc. (MRG) announces Houston Reliability Engineering Center

SANDY HOOK, CT: Management Resources Group, Inc. (MRG), the leader in reliability engineering and enterprise asset management services, announced the opening of the Houston Reliability Engineering Center in Houston, Texas.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Maximize Intrinsic Reliability Through Focus in Early Project Phases

by Mohammad Naseer Uddin

Inspired by the June 2012 article by Robert DiStefano in Uptime^® magazine on the importance of implementing a reliability program in the early lifecycle of a project, I would like to share a few examples from real-life scenarios. My contention is by having a proper reliability program in place, many of these avoidable defects could have been eliminated during the early phases of the project, thereby delivering higher asset reliability at a lower lifecycle cost (LCC).

reliability engineering for maintenance

Hidden Failure Q&A - Henry Ellmann

Uptime Magazine's Steve Thomas (left) recently caught up with Henry Ellmann (right) to discuss his keynote address at IMC-2012 in Bonita Springs, Florida, December 4-7th.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Improving the Reliability of a Turbofan Jet Engine

By Larry Tyson

Part 1 of this article appeared in the June/July 2011 issue of Uptime Magazine

This is a follow-up article to one published in the June/July 2011 issue of Uptime magazine.¹ Our component of interest was the fuel control (FC), with a failure mode (FM) of "flameout," where one of two engines shut down in flight. This is called in-flight abort (IFA) and has a direct "safety of flight" impact on aircraft and aircraft missions, as well as the crew, and, of course, is a very undesired consequence.

Two Honeywell Process Solutions Achieve ISASecure Embedded Device Security Assurance Certification

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA - The ISA Security Compliance Institute (ISCI) announced that two additional Honeywell Process Solutions have earned ISASecure Embedded Device Security Assurance (EDSA) certification. Honeywell’s latest demonstration of cybersecurity assurance comes on the heels of having earned, in the fall of 2011, its first EDSA certification for the company’s embedded Safety Manager device, which delivers safety assurance for operators who oversee industrial processes.

Case: Weibull-based Method for Failure Mode Characterization & Remaining Life Expectancy Estimat

Jorge Kalocai

1. Situation

Figure 1 shows a couple of process equipment, in order, a secondary reformer and a heat exchanger (heat recovery HPS boiler). Due to the shelling of the internal refractory wall surface into the reformer (in which hot output gases are used as hot draught at the heat exchanger), the heat exchange efficiency on the boiler was affected. Considering the existence of an internal bypass valve (final element of a PID output temperature controller) that regulates the hot draught bypass proportion, its progressive positioning to no bypass condition (to compensate for the heat exchanger efficiency loss) was considered a symptom of the failure mode degradation ("fouling" increasing).

This approach was failure mode based, so even when the potential failure mechanism was suspected, it dealt with it from a black box perspective.