Practical Machinery Management for Process Plants: Volume 2: Machinery Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting - Hardcover

Bloch, Heinz P.; Geitner, Fred K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0884156621 ISBN 13: 9780884156628

Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing, 1997

Synopsis

This newly expanded edition discusses proven approaches to defining causes of machinery failure as well as methods for analyzing and troubleshooting failures.

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From the Author

Equipment failure analysis made understandable for all!
Our revised 3rd Edition represents many decades of root cause failure analysis experience and explains successful methods with total clarity. We have included field examples dealing with equipment metallurgy and machinery configuration. We give solid guidance on optimized component geometries and zero-cost modifications that have been implemented by "Best-of-Class" performers. We show that ALL machinery failures are attributable to only 7 root cause categories, and that ANY component that ever fails will do so only because constraints imposed by one of 4 basic failure agents, Force, a Reactive Environment, Time, or Temperature ("FRETT") have been violated. Failure initiators are then determined from the observed failure modes. The text, which contains hundreds of good illustrations, has been used in teaching the subject on all six continents. Its content is short on philosophies and full of highly practical recommendations. It is certain to save the reader time and money by presenting the experience-based practices of the most resourceful practitioners of reliability engineering.

About the Author

A consulting engineer residing in Montgomery, texas, Heinz. P. Bloch has held machinery-oriented staff and line positions with Exxon affiliates in the United States, Italy, Spain, England, The Netherlands, and Japan. His career spanned several decades prior to his 1986 retirement as Exxon Chemical's regional machinery specialist for the USA. Since his retirement from Exxon, he has been in demand throughout the world as a consultant and trainer in the areas of failure avoidance, root cause failure identification, and reliability improvement. Mr. Bloch is the author/co-author of thirteen books and over 200 other publications on subjects related to machinery reliability and failure avoidance. He is the Reliability and Equipment Editor of Hydrocarbon Processing magazine and has served as chair of the annual conference program for Hydrocarbon Processing's Process Plant Reliability Conference for a number of years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0884156621
• ISBN 13: 9780884156628
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 680