Is My Machine OK?: A Field Guide to Assessing Process Machinery - Hardcover

Perez, Robert; Conkey, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0831134402 ISBN 13: 9780831134402

Verlag: Industrial Press, Inc., 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Are you responsible for your plant's industrial machines? Is My Machine OK? is a compact and handy reference on the potential risks of machine failure and safe machinery operation. Authors Robert Perez and Andre Conkey, aided by several contributors, provide 225 pages in this hardcover guide. It foms a solid basis for reliable and safe machine operations. The authors employ their extensive background to combine the most commonly used assessment tools in a single source.  

Developed specifically to be taken into the field by machine operators, plant supervisors and maintenance technicians, the guide will also help reliability professionals make informed decisions about factory and process equipment.

Features

This book is made up of four sections subdivided into 12 chapters and two appendices:

• Evaluating Process Machines, which contains basic instruction and practical advice on evaluating the condition of machines
• Equipment Specific Assessments, which covers the evaluation of centrifugal pumps, steam turbines, electric motors, and piping
• General Assessment Guidelines, which contains field assessment methods, limits, and advice commonly employed to evaluate process machinery
• Improvement Ideas. Throughout the book there are many relevant examples that will help you better understand the proper application of the various assessment methodologies presented. 

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Robert X Perez has more than 30 years of rotating equipment experience in the petrochemical industry and holds a BSME from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; an MSME degree from the University of Texas, Austin, and is a licensed P.E. in the state of Texas. He is a co-founder of PumpCalcs.com, a web-based site for pump-related calculations, and is the author of Operator's Guide to Centrifugal Pumps.

Andrew P. Conkey is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He has been a member of the Vibration Institute for over 15 years and has conducted research on the application of fiber optic interferometers for machinery rresponse measurements. He earned a BSME degree from Texas A&I University, and MSME and Ph.D. degrees from Texas A&M.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Industrial Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0831134402
• ISBN 13: 9780831134402
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: preigu; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; 49078; Deutschland