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Books
	31/1/2013 Book - Turnaround, Shutdown and Outage Management Shutdown management is project management of a special kind: managing the repair, replacement or maintenance of critical systems. More...
	31/1/2013 Book - Hydraulics and Pneumatics, 3rd Edition More...
	31/1/2013 International Case Studies in Asset Management The book presents 17 case studies which illustrate how resistant asset management is to compartmentalised thinking and actions. More...
	22/2/2010 Book - Asset Management whole-life management of physical assets For the foreseeable future, organisations, industries and whole economies which depend on the availability and condition of physical assets are going to succeed or rail on their ability to manage them efficiently and sustainably with limited or insufficient resources. More...
	21/11/2008 Book - Managing Maintenance Resources Managing Maintenance Resources shows how to reduce the complexity involved in engineering, or re-engineering, a maintenance organization. It recognises that this is a complex problem involving many inter-related decisions – such as whether or not resources should be centralized, contractor alliances be entered into or flexible working be adopted. More...
	21/11/2008 Book - Plant Maintenance Management 3 book set Set of three hardback publications, consisting of: Strategic Maintenance Planning, Managing Maintenance Resources, Maintenance Systems & Documentation More...
	20/11/2008 Book - Maintenance Systems and Documentation Maintenance Systems and Documentation addresses the main systems necessary for the successful operation of a maintenance organization, such as performance control, work control and documentation. It shows how they can be modelled, their function and operating principles, and the main problems encountered in operation. More...
	20/11/2008 Book - Strategic Maintenance Planning Strategic Maintenance Planning deals with the concepts, principles and techniques of preventive maintenance, and shows how the complexity of maintenance strategic planning can be resolved by a systematic 'Top-Down-Bottom-Up' approach. More...
	28/9/2007 Book - Maintenance Planning and Scheduling This is a hands-on reference guide for the maintenance or reliability engineer and plant manager. More...
	27/9/2007 Book - RCM - Gateway to World Class Maintenance Reliability-Centered Maintenance provides valuable insights into current preventive maintenance practices and issues, while explaining how a transition from the current "preserve equipment" to "preserve function" mindset is the key ingredient in a maintenance optimization strategy. More...
	27/9/2007 Book - TPM A Route to World Class Performance Total productive maintenance (TPM), a Japanese management protocol developed to alleviate production losses caused by machine breakdowns has moved on. More...
	27/9/2007 Book - Lean Maintenance What is "Lean?" Whether referring to manufacturing operations or maintenance, lean is about doing more with less: less effort, less space, fewer defects, less throughput time, lower volume requirements, less capital for a given level of output, etc. More...
	25/9/2007 Book - Maintenance Fundamentals No matter which industry a company is a part of, its profitability, like its products, is driven by the reliability and performance of its plant(s). The fundamentals for maintenance found in this volume are applicable to a multitude of industries: power, process, materials, manufacturing, transportation, communication, and many others. This book shows the engineer how to select, install, maintain, and troubleshoot critical plant machinery, equipment, and systems. More...
	25/9/2007 Book - Machinery Component Maintenance and Repair The names Bloch and Geitner are synonymous with machinery maintenance and reliability for process plants. They save companies like Dow and Equilon millions of dollars a year. More...
	25/9/2007 Book - Handbook of Production Management Methods This unique book provides a guide to the selection of appropriate production and manufacturing methods for postgraduate and professional manufacturing engineers. More...
	25/9/2007 Book - Glossary of Reliability and Maintenance Terms This glossary with more than 1,000 terms and definitions provides a common ground for effective communication. It is an essential reference for all reliability professionals, process engineers, plant operators, and repair and maintenance personnel. More...
	25/9/2007 Book - Maintenance Management its Auditing and Benchmarking The term 'audit' has come to mean the process of inspecting and checking a company's accounts. From time to time companies also need to audit the other aspects of their managerial activities, those concerned with production, sales, maintenance and so on. More...
	25/9/2007 Book - Lean TPM Merging the benefits of two well-known methodolgies, Lean Thinking and Total Productive Maintenance, Lean TPM shows how to secure increased manufacturing efficiency. More...

Video
	14/5/2013 Video - OptiMaint, Make Your Maintenance More Efficient Our computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) aims at optimizing breakdown maintenance, planning preventive maintenance, managing stocks and controlling budgets in a user friendly and customizable environment. More...
	30/4/2013 Video - How to calibrate and trim a Foundation Fieldbus transmitter A short overview of how to calibrate and trim a Foundation Fieldbus transmitter in the Documenting Calibrator modewith a Beamex MC6 advanced field calibrator and communicator More...
	30/4/2013 Video - Beamex MC6 - Introduction to Calibrator Mode This video gives a brief introduction of the Calibrator mode of the Beamex MC6 Advanced Field Calibrator and Communicator More...
	30/4/2013 Video - Introduction to a paperless calibration system This animated video introduces the Beamex Integrated Calibration Solution made of the Beamex MC6 Advanced Field Calibrator and Communicator and the Beamex CMX Calibration Software More...
	30/4/2013 Video - How often should instruments be calibrated Most process manufacturing plants have some sort of maintenance plan in place, which ensures that all instruments used across the site are calibrated at the appropriate times. More...
	30/4/2013 Video - How to calibrate and trim a HART transmitter A short overview of how to calibrate and trim a HART transmitter in the Documenting Calibrator mode with a Beamex MC6 advanced field calibrator and communicator More...
	30/4/2013 Video - Beamex MC6 - General Introduction This video gives a short general introduction of the Beamex MC6 Advanced Field Calibrator and Communicator. More...
	24/4/2013 Video - How to use a chain wear guide This video from Renold demonstrates how easy it is to use the company's chain wear guide to measure elongation and determine when a chain is ready to be replaced. More...
	24/4/2013 Video - Portable Safety Shower from Showers & Eyebaths Services Showers & Eyebaths Services has launched a series of safety, training and product videos - helping you to keep your workforce safe and ensuring your safety drenching equipment works first time every time. This video gives you information on the Portable Safety Shower. More...
	24/4/2013 Video - Vibxpert II Data collection & Vibration Analysis This system VIBXPERT II offers a great variety of benefits for your optimum plant and increased machine availability. Data collector and vibration analyzer - intuitive, fast, ergonomic, powerful and long-lived Further information: http://www.pruftechnik.com/?id=2758 More...
	24/4/2013 Video - Emergency Mains Fed Shower from Showers & Eyebaths Services Showers & Eyebaths Services has launched a series of safety, training and product videos - helping you to keep your workforce safe and ensuring your safety drenching equipment works first time every time. This video gives you information on the Mains Fed Safety Shower. More...
	24/4/2013 Video - Rotaling Ultra iS The next Generation of Alignment Systems with a new sensor -technology offers highest precision in laser shaft alignment. Measurement and alignment of plant and machinery ROTALIGN Ultra iS. http://www.pruftechnik.com/rotalign-ultra-is.html More...
	24/4/2013 Video - Vibconnect RF Wireless Condition Monitoring VIBCONNECT RF wireless condition monitoring opens up new possibilities - high plant availability, low maintenance costs and greater safety. Vibration analysis and machine diagnosis with VIBCONNECT RF by PRÜFTECHNIK. http://www.pruftechnik.com/vibconnect... More...
	24/4/2013 Video - Emergency Tank Shower from Showers & Eyebaths Services Showers & Eyebaths Services has launched a series of safety, training and product videos - helping you to keep your workforce safe and ensuring your safety drenching equipment works first time every time. This video gives you information on the Bowser/Mobile Safety Shower. More...
	24/4/2013 Video - Bowser/Mobile Safety Shower from Showers & Eyebaths Services Showers & Eyebaths Services has launched a series of safety, training and product videos - helping you to keep your workforce safe and ensuring your safety drenching equipment works first time every time. This video gives you information on the Bowser/Mobile Safety Shower More...
	21/4/2013 Video - Replacing polymer blocks by hand This video from Renold shows how easy it is to replace the polymer blocks on Klik-Top chain by hand. More...
	21/4/2013 Video - Safety & Training Video Working in hazardous environments or when working in an environment where there is a potential to come into contact with harmful substances, health & safety standards include the requirement to install an effective drenching device whether this is for the eye, face or whole body. More...
	21/4/2013 Video - How to easily cut transmission chain This short video from Renold demonstrates how easy it is to cut a strand of its standard and Synergy chain using a Renold Pin Extractor More...
	21/4/2013 Video - Bürkert valves - 360 degree swing Popular BBC science show Bang Goes the Theory is designed to stimulate interest in technology and engineering, the show’s tag line is to ‘Discover and challenge the scientific principles that shape your world’. More...
	10/4/2013 Video - Automated Monitoring of Interceptors / Separators Alarm systems with three sensors is installed within the separator automatically monitoring the levels of oil, silt and liquid within and warning if excessive levels are reached. www.darcy.co.uk More...
	10/4/2013 Video - Compliant Removal Of Oil & Water From Bunds Low cost automatic pumping systems that monitor the contents of the bund and automatically pump rainwater containing less than 1ppm maintaining bund capacity. www.darcy.co.uk More...
	10/4/2013 Video - Contain Spills And Firewater Run-Off On Site Operated manually or triggered by means of automatic sensors Draintector isolates part or the whole of a site ensuring the retention of spillages or fire-fighting run-off on site. www.darcy.co.uk More...
	20/3/2013 VIDEO - T Cards The Proven Management Tool to help keep track, allocate and improve efficiency. Visual Planning for planned & preventative; unscheduled & reactive. Communicate between departments in a clear “at a glance” way. More...
	11/2/2013 VIDEO - The Right Steam Trap for the Job 5 questions to an expert: Paul Mayoh, Spirax Sarco's UK Product Marketing Manager, is quizzed on why it's necessary to fit the right steam trap for your application More...
	11/2/2013 VIDEO - Labfacility Labcal PRO Digital Temperature Indicator High precision digital thermometer for laboratory applications More...
	11/2/2013 VIDEO - Labfacility L200 8 Channel Digital Thermometer/Logger Accurate, versatile 8 -channel Digital thermometer for thermocouple & PRT sensors. USB PC interface More...
	11/2/2013 VIDEO - Labfacility L60 Fine Wire Thermocouple Welder Low cost, simple to use, benchtop welder for the manufacture of thermocouple junctions More...
	31/1/2013 VIDEO - Circuit Breaker Lock Instruction Video The Telemechanique GV2ME16 has a built-in lockout facility which is sometimes overlooked. This video shows how to use the lockout facility for single or dual worker isolation during maintence. More...
	10/1/2013 VIDEO - Value Driven Maintenance There is value hidden in every maintenance organization. All companies have the potential to further improve, either by reducing costs or by smart maintenance solutions that improves uptime. The question is where maintenance managers should be looking to find these areas of improvement and where they need to start. You will find the answer to this question at Mainnovation. With Value Driven Maintenance® and the matching tools like the VDM Control Panel, we will help you to discover the hidden treasure in your company. More...
	10/1/2013 VIDEO - VDM Control Panel for SAP EAM Demo Maintenance managers across industries are forced to improve their business. In the increasingly competitive market the maintenance department needs to add more value to the overall company results. Fortunately, many maintenance organizations contain a value potential that has not yet been realised. But where is this value treasure hidden and how can it be revealed? Should you focus on uptime or on cost reduction? More...
	10/1/2013 VIDEO - VDM Control Panel Demo Maintenance managers across industries are forced to improve their business. In the increasingly competitive market the maintenance department needs to add more value to the overall company results. Fortunately, many maintenance organizations contain a value potential that has not yet been realised. But where is this value treasure hidden and how can it be revealed? More...
	10/1/2013 VIDEO - VDM Control Panel for IBM Maximo Demo Maintenance managers across industries are forced to improve their business. In the increasingly competitive market the maintenance department needs to add more value to the overall company results. Fortunately, many maintenance organizations contain a value potential that has not yet been realised. But where is this value treasure hidden and how can it be revealed? Should you focus on uptime or on cost reduction? More...
	20/12/2012 VIDEO - How to commission a ACS800 Drive Welcome to Quantum Controls series of ABB Video Guides. This tutorial is a basic start up guide for the ACS800 range More...
	20/12/2012 VIDEO - How to commission a ACQ810 Drive Quantum Controls demonstrates the commissioning of a ACQ810 Drive More...
	20/12/2012 VIDEO - How to commission a ACH550 Drive Welcome to Quantum Controls series of ABB Video Guides. This tutorial is a basic start up guide for the ACH550 range More...
	20/12/2012 VIDEO - How to commission a ACS550 Drive Quantum Controls demonstrates the commissioning of a ACS550 Drive More...
	20/11/2012 VIDEO - 'How To Make It In Industry' with Caunton Engineering In EAL's 'How to make it in industry' series, Caunton Engineering’s Natalie Harris explains what it's like working as an engineering apprentice and creating huge steel structures for construction projects. More...
	20/11/2012 VIDEO - 'How to make it in industry' with Siemens In EAL's ‘How to make it in industry’ series, Siemens engineering apprentice Peter Usher shares what it's like building large gas turbines that generate electricity. More...
	20/11/2012 VIDEO - 'How to make it in industry' with Nestle In EAL's ‘How to make it in industry’ series, Nestle's Ed Wilson reveals what it's like being an engineering apprentice in the UK's only KitKat factory! More...
	20/11/2012 VIDEO - 'How to make it in industry' with KMF In EAL's ‘How to make it in industry’ series, KMF's Sam Dutton explains his role as a fabrication and welding engineering apprentice, using specialist machinery to produce everything from medical equipment to aerospace components. More...
	13/11/2012 VIDEO - Fronius transSteel Robotics Main benefits: - Steel Transfer Technology - FSC (Fronius System Connector) - Seamless integration with hollow-arm robots - Small wire-feed unit (movable for changing liners and hosepacks) - Same components for conventional and PAP robots - EasyJob -save power, dynamic and correction at the push of a button More...
	13/11/2012 VIDEO - OptiMaint CMMS Based on year's of experience, Apisoft International says it understands the needs of maintenance deprtments and has developed the CMMS OptiMaint adapted to any sector of activity and any size of company. More...
	13/11/2012 VIDEO - Fronius Contec The constant contact relationship between Contec and the filler material means that the geometry of the resulting weld seam also remains constant and the quality issues otherwise associated with the contact tube disappear. The striking increase in service life increases the system availability and productivity of the whole process, reducing both energy and production costs at the same time. More...
	13/11/2012 VIDEO - Steel Transfer Technology - Electrode Welding A rugged and reliable partner with easy operation that is digitally controlled and primed with the expert knowledge package, "Steel Transfer Technology", specifically put together for the steel market, ensuring the very greatest precision in the welding process. More...
	10/10/2012 VIDEO - CorDEX Instruments - IR Windows, Intelligent Infrared Windows The New IR Windows IW Series Infrared Window is the latest generation of Intelligent IR Windows from CorDEX Instruments. The IR Windows IW Series Infrared Windows are NFPA 70E safety compliant. More...
	10/10/2012 VIDEO - Who Is Already Using Lobo System? by Robert Bokros The LOBO System is a new approach to platform technology that is modular in design and doesn't require a single specialist tool to assemble, due to its patented clamp design. The system is truly unique. More...
	10/10/2012 VIDEO - CompAir Quantima Compressor in action at Jaguar CompAir helps Jaguar drive through energy savings with Quantima compressors More...
	10/10/2012 VIDEO - How LOBO System Is Different to Regular Platforms and Scaffolding? by Robert Bokros The LOBO System is a new approach to platform technology that is modular in design and doesn't require a single specialist tool to assemble, due to its patented clamp design. The system is truly unique. More...
	10/10/2012 VIDEO - What is LOBO SYSTEM? by Robert Bokros The LOBO System is a new approach to platform technology that is modular in design and doesn't require a single specialist tool to assemble, due to its patented clamp design. The system is truly unique. More...
	10/10/2012 VIDEO - How Does LOBO System Work? by Robert Bokros The LOBO System is a new approach to platform technology that is modular in design and doesn't require a single specialist tool to assemble, due to its patented clamp design. The system is truly unique. More...
	10/10/2012 VIDEO - What Are LOBO System's Applications? by Robert Bokros The LOBO System is a new approach to platform technology that is modular in design and doesn't require a single specialist tool to assemble, due to its patented clamp design. The system is truly unique. More...
	10/10/2012 VIDEO - Miller Oils Research The new Research and Development lab is now fully operational and is speeding up the launch of new and innovative oils for industrial applications, passenger cars, motorsport, commercial vehicles. The fully equipped lab offers customers an oil analysis service – helping keep their cutting fluids in good condition. More...
	10/10/2012 VIDEO - CorDEX Instruments - ToughPIX 2300XP Series - Explosion Proof Digital Camera ToughPIX 2300XP Series explosion proof digital camera informational video. More...
	10/10/2012 VIDEO - LOBO System and Health and Safety Concerns by Robert Bokros The LOBO System is a new approach to platform technology that is modular in design and doesn't require a single specialist tool to assemble, due to its patented clamp design. The system is truly unique. More...
	10/10/2012 VIDEO - CorDEX Instruments - UT5000 Key Features UT5000 Ultrasonic thickness gauge Key Features More...
	10/10/2012 VIDEO - NEW: Fluke Ti100 Series Thermal Cameras! We Introduced 5 NEW models - Fluke Ti100, Fluke Ti110, Fluke TiR110, Fluke TiR125, Fluke Ti125 NEW Thermal Camera Features IR-OptiFlex focus system, IR-Fusion technology, Multi-mode video recording, Streaming video output, Electronic compass, IR-PhotoNotes annotation system, Built rugged, Voice annotation, Laser pointer/torch, One-hand operation More...
	10/10/2012 VIDEO - Air Control Industries (ACI) - Company Overview Since its inception in 1969, Air Control Industries has been supplying most industries throughout the World with its range of industrial air movement products which includes centrifugal, radial and axial fans; airknife drying systems and personnel de-dusting equipment. More...
	10/10/2012 VIDEO - CompAir compressors in action at Astrum The new compressed air system will reduce Astrum's compressed air energy demand by 1,255,000 kWh and save it over £80,000 per annum. Two variable speed compressors from CompAir have helped Astrum to cut its compressed air energy costs by more than a half and increase productivity. More...

Editorial
	30/4/2013 Value Driven Maintenance® ’What is actually the added value of maintenance?’ is a frequently heard question in boardrooms the world over. Even though maintenance is often critically important, few maintenance managers are able to answer the question convincingly, especially when they are asked to express the benefits in terms of economic value added or shareholder value - the language increasingly being spoken in boardrooms all over the world. More...
	11/1/2013 OBL Plunger and Diaphragm Metering Pumps Introduced by AxFlow AxFlow has announced that it is to start distributing the OBL range of metering pumps from January 2013. The OBL range consists of spring and full motion, positive return mechanisms, with wet ends available in plunger, mechanical diaphragm, single and double hydraulic diaphragm designs. More...
	11/1/2013 T-Cards System Now On-Line - Gives Global Multi-User Access T-Cards Direct has taken the concept of its renowned manual work-flow monitoring system and developed an OnLine version that provides an opportunity to manage workflow in real-time using the simple drag-and-drop technique, moving cards around the board to reflect current status. More...
	10/1/2013 Materials Handling at the Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology Consultants at The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology have been dealing with materials handling problems since 1973, when the group was set up to research problems associated with pneumatic conveying of powders and granular solid material in pipelines. More...
	21/12/2012 Play the Verder Ski Challenge Online Game to win fantastic prizes! Do you have nerves of steel? Can you defy death? Put your skills to the test on the Ski-Run Challenge and win up to 150 Pounds for any online sports shop! More...
	21/12/2012 New Pump Application Report: Handling Malt Mash in the Brewing Industry The Document examines the process issues that Brewmasters and plant engineers must consider when handling malt mash and the pumping solution: A Verderhus screw-channel pump. More...
	21/12/2012 Reduce Wear, Extend Machinery Life with Molylube Open Gear Lubricants and Mill Gear Grease New Ultra Heavy and Extra Heavy grade offerings round out the Molylube SF100 Semi-Synthetic Open Gear Lubricant line, meeting open gear and multiservice lubricant requirements in temperatures as low as 50 below zero 58 below zero F More...
	21/12/2012 New Multi-Purpose Dry Film Lubricant Approved for Use in "Clean Industry" Applications Bel-Ray No-Tox Food Grade Dry PTFE Spray - a new multi-purpose, dry film lubricant in a convenient aerosol form -has been NSF-H1 approved for use in "clean industry" applications. More...
	21/12/2012 Bel-Ray New and Reinstated Industrial and Mining Products to Launch in January 2013 With these new and reinstated products, Bel-Ray provides additional opportunities to optimize performance, reduce maintenance and increase equipment and component life. More...
	20/12/2012 Hospital Makes Emergency Call To King's Boiler Hire When Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge recently had a major failure on one of their main 35,000lb/hr steam boilers they contacted King's Boiler Hire Ltd. King's, whose Mildenhall branch is close to Cambridge, were asked to urgently provide a temporary boiler to help cover the hospital's steam demand. More...
	9/10/2012 If I remember correctly it was a sunny afternoon when the phone rang and a worried voice asked... If I remember correctly it was a sunny afternoon when the phone rang and a worried voice asked for some advice. This would have been as at least 25 years ago but I remember the unfortunate chain of events with embarrassing clarity. More...
	4/10/2012 British Public Invited to See the Sites at Construction's First Ever Open Doors Weekend This autumn, the public is being offered an exclusive opportunity to have a look behind the scenes at some of Britain's most exciting construction sites. More...
	31/5/2012 Latest Analytical Technology Ensures Biogas Efficiency Anaerobic Digestion (AD) relies on the ability of specific micro-organisms to convert organic material into a gas that can be used to generate electricity. More...
	31/5/2012 Expansion of UTCs a Step in the Right Direction The Institution of Engineering and Technology has welcomed the announcement that 15 new University Technical Colleges (UTCs) will be created to train 20,000 young people as the engineers and scientists of the future. More...
	4/5/2012 Webtec announces facelift for range of 700 bar hydraulic control valves Webtec Products Ltd, of St Ives, Cambridgeshire, UK has updated the design of the 180 series of high pressure oil-hydraulic directional control valves, due to be available from June 2012. More...
	9/2/2012 Sterling-SIHI Demonstrates Energy Saving Potential at Tate & Lyle Sugars Sterling-SIHI performed an energy audit at Tate & Lyle Sugars, London, which demonstrated the potential to save 90% of energy costs associated with the assessed pumping system. More...
	4/10/2011 Setting The Right Standards in Asset Management The continuing growth of international interest, debate and activity in the subject of asset management is very encouraging. However, there is still plenty of confusion around. More...
	4/10/2011 Reliability and Ruggedness Are Their Hallmarks Andy Anthony, Managing Director of Monitran, outlines why the popularity of Linear Variable Differential Transformers (LVDTs) for displacement and position measurement remains so strong. More...
	26/8/2011 Karcher Announces the Professional Cleaning Roadshow in September 2011 Kärcher, the world leader in the design and manufacture of cleaning machines, has announced a series of roadshow events to take place at various UK locations in September. The Kärcher Professional Cleaning Roadshow will be used as a launch pad for several new Kärcher products from its pressure washer, vacuum, floorcare, sweeper and industrial ranges. More...
	1/4/2011 News - Compact, low cost In-line Particle Monitor available from MP Filtri The ICM automatically measures and displays particulate contamination, moisture and temperature levels in various hydraulic fluids. More...
	30/9/2010 Talking Shop Like many of us, I woke up shocked to hear about the imminent collapse of social housing maintenance company Connaught earlier this month and the inevitable confirmation that the company had been placed into administration. Once again the largely ‘out of sight, out of mind’ world of maintenance was thrust into the mainstream media. More...
	26/5/2010 New Spiral Welder launched Dr Robert John, Director of The Welding Institute, Cambridge, recently officiated at the launch of Rewinds & J Windsor’s new purpose built spiral welder for the reclamation of shafts and other components. February 17th saw the company welcoming members of the local press, engineering media, customers, staff and friends to their Regent Road facility in Liverpool. More...
	26/5/2010 What if you could predict sudden asset failure? As soon as you plug in a piece of equipment, it starts using energy. If an asset begins to consume more energy than necessary to operate, it is a clear indicator that there is a problem More...
	25/5/2010 ABB launches drives and motors swappage scheme by offering to pay your VAT ABB launches its drives and motors swappage scheme, allowing companies to trade in their old products from any manufacturer for new ABB drives and motors More...
	22/5/2010 Latest European counterfeit spares seizure prompts warning to UK industry from Brammer Brammer, the UK’s leading supplier of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) products and services, has issued a stark warning to UK manufacturers about the dangers of buying through unauthorised sources following a further major discovery of counterfeit parts in Europe. More...
	22/5/2010 AMBASSADOR PROGRAMME IS REALLY HIP, SAY STUDENTS! Students at Ridgewood School – a Specialist Engineering School in Doncaster - were given a completely different take on the engineering industry when they were introduced to Sheffield-based JRI, through the AEM (Advanced Engineering Manufacturing) Ambassador Programme, run by NAMTEC (National Metals Technology Centre), based in Rotherham. More...
	22/5/2010 Global survey investigates the future of measurement technology HBM is giving engineers from around the world a chance to air their views on the future of measurement technology in an on-line survey. The survey comprises 15 technical questions, including questions about acquired physical parameters, interfaces used and the importance of expandability in a measurement data acquisition system. The questionnaire is available in both English and German. More...
	22/5/2010 Energy now as big a risk as health and safety, say businesses Energy now presents the same level of risk to businesses as health and safety and security. This is among the findings of npower’s Business Energy Index (nBEI), an annual survey tracking business opinion on energy use and carbon emissions, released today. More...
	22/5/2010 Dyson doubles number of UK engineers Dyson is doubling its UK engineering team from 350 to 700. Bucking the trend, Dyson is increasing research and development investment and recruiting during recession. The new engineers, many from university, will work at Dyson’s Wiltshire laboratories, where machines are conceived, researched and designed. New positions include graduate design engineers, mechanical engineers and acoustic engineers. More...
	27/4/2010 SNCF Information and Telecommunication Systems Department (DSIT) The SNCF Group is France’s biggest transport group after Air France-KLM, and the fourth largest group in Europe after Deutsche Post, Die Bahn and Air France-KLM, employing 238,000 people grouped around 4 enterprise divisions: Freight, France Europe Travellers, Public Transport and Infrastructure. Infrastructure, which accounts for over one third of employees and over 60 professional fields, maintains and manages the network, while also pro-actively developing it. More...
	10/12/2008 Two International Companies benefit from innovative Spi-VR cost effective CM system More...
	1/12/2008 PAS 55:2008 - the standard for integrated, life cycle optimised asset management There is, at last, a consensus-developed, clear definition of good asset management and what needs to be done to maximize asset life cycle value-for-money. More...
	1/10/2008 Delivering Year-on-Year Performance Improvement More...
	29/9/2008 The Alarming Truth About Fire Prevention According to the latest Government Fire Statistics for the UK published in May 2008 which relate to 2006, retail distribution saw 4,200 fires with industrial premises outside of construction seeing 2,400 fires. More...
	29/9/2008 Putting Energy Firmly On The Agenda "Since the inception of the CCL (Climate Change Levy) in 2001, the UK Government has kept a brisk pace on developing the UK’s long term strategy for reducing carbon emissions. As such the recent draft Climate Change Bill put forward in March 2007 is well on its way to receiving Royal Assent by summer 2008. More...
	29/9/2008 Invaluable or Worthless - are power protection warranties worth the paper they are written on? A key weapon in the armoury of many companies selling power protection equipment is the so-called ‘protection guarantee’. More...
	29/9/2008 Fit for Purpose Morgan Advanced Ceramics (MAC), a subsidiary of the Morgan Crucible Company that supplies world-class technical ceramics products to the medical, aerospace and laser industries faced just this problem. More...
	29/9/2008 Machines talk and it pays to listen Modern acoustic emission technology is a very versatile, non-invasive way to gather information about a material or structure and was originally developed as a means of non-destructive testing and quality control. More...
	29/9/2008 Vibration Accelerometers - Sheer vs Compression Designs The implementation of industrial vibration monitoring sensors and associated signal conditioning as an integral part of industrial predictive maintenance programs has proven to be an effective strategy for reducing downtime and improving machinery health. More...
	29/9/2008 Getting Lean Many companies are adopting ‘Lean Manufacturing’ techniques in order to successfully compete in the global economy, but what is ‘getting lean’ and how does it affect maintenance operations? More...
	29/9/2008 Chip tuning for pumps Software can change the performance curves of pumps, aiming them at specific tasks with greater precision than ever. More...
	29/9/2008 easyFairs MAINTEC Broadens Industry Appeal And next year’s expo (17-19 March 2009 at Birmingham’s NEC) is expected to break visitor attendance records as the show reaches out to new audiences and introduces innovative show elements. More...
	29/9/2008 Hazardous Waste from your Compressed Air System: regulations and compliance “Of course I comply I have a licence” or “what registration to get rid of waste?” are two of the typical responses we hear when we ask companies how they handle the removal and disposal of Hazardous Waste from their Compressed Air system - but the plain fact is that ignorance of the law is no defence. More...
	29/9/2008 Volvo Cars has high expectations of Value Driven Maintenance (VDM) Volvo makes cars and engines at production centres in Belgium (one site) and Sweden (four sites). More...
	26/9/2008 Viewing Assets from an ROI perspective While most of us have been taking more notice of our energy bills over the past year, Grahame Done has been doing it for years. As Infor’s EMEA Director for Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and with 15 years experience in Asset Management, he’s been helping engineering and manufacturing companies take more notice of theirs. More importantly, he’s been helping them to reduce their energy consumption as part of an integrated Asset Management strategy making use of the latest EAM software solutions. His starting point is that you can’t save what you don’t measure and his industry experience suggests that savings of 20% on utilities are typical when companies practice continuous monitoring and auditing. With energy costs soaring, he’s clearly a man worth listening to. More...
	26/9/2008 First Steps in Moving from Fire-Fighting to a More Planned Environment Maintenance departments have historically embraced a “fire-fighting” or reactive management style. In some facilities, Operations was to blame for their reluctance to give up equipment capacity in order to keep product moving out the door. Furthermore, Marketing made constant changes to schedules as a knee-jerk reaction to fluctuating customer demand, resulting in delays to delivery schedules and production inefficiencies. This cycle fuelled a fire-fighting mentality on the shop floor. More...
	26/9/2008 The Business IMPACT of Enterprise Asset Management We are continuing the serialisation of the new Enterprise Asset Management book from IBM. More...
	19/9/2008 When it comes to gaskets, looks aren't everything Replacing a Plate Heat Exchanger (PHE) gasket requires slightly more technical expertise than re-sealing a double-glazed window or a car windscreen. With gaskets, you get what you pay for. Pay less and the chances are that you will end up with a less than premium re-gasketting job. More...
	14/7/2008 The world of work is changing and the bar is being raised Few can argue with the impact and importance of training when it comes to succeeding in the workplace. Michelle Roberts has 20 years experience not just in training, but in ensuring people are getting the right training. This path has led her to becoming the Director of the Skills Development Network for the Learning Skills Council (LSC). More...
	3/7/2008 EAM Strategies: Creating social and financial value by going Green What is Green? Thousands of years ago, Egyptian farmers understood the business value of optimizing their key processes and making the most of their resources. By controlling the Nile’s floodwaters and reclaiming the fertile silt left behind, for example, these agriculturalists were able to extend their growing season and increase their crop production and wealth, even in one of the most arid climates on Earth. More...

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	3/6/2013 Ezine - The Skills Show Calls For Volunteers From The Engineering Industry The Skills Show, the UK's largest skills and careers event, is calling for businesses within the engineering sector to encourage their employees to volunteer at its 2013 event, which will be held in Birmingham at the NEC from the 14-16 November 2013. More...
	31/5/2013 Ezine - Clear and compact displays with 25% off Endress+Hauser’s display indicators RIA15 and RIA45 offer clear information at a glance. More...
	31/5/2013 Ezine - New Verderflex Peristaltic Pump Brochure Verderflex peristaltic pumps are highly engineered units designed to pump media through a tube or hose using a rotary mechanism to ‘push’ the media through. More...
	31/5/2013 Ezine - New White Paper... A new White Paper from Spirax Sarco shows how steam users can save money and prevent a wide range of potential problems with an effective water treatment regime. More...
	31/5/2013 Ezine - The Ultimate Machinery Protection System Sentry G3 from Sensonics is a high-performance sensor conditioning and monitoring system which offers market leading functions and features. More...
	31/5/2013 Ezine - Asset Management Call for Papers Conference UK The IET/ IAM Asset Management conference is annually attended by over 250 asset management professionals from around the world representing a wide range of asset intensive industry, public and academic sectors. More...
	31/5/2013 Ezine - Smooth 'Crevice-Free' Valves Eliminating areas which might increase the potential for bacteria growth such as traps and crevices is an important design requirement for control valves used in aseptic applications, such as food processing and pharmaceutical production. More...
	30/4/2013 Ezine - Train your Operators, Technicians and Engineers with MCP New Reading, Berkshire venue and new courses! More...
	30/4/2013 Ezine - Five Facts Manufacturers Need to Know about Renewable Energy We are seeing a surge of interest in renewable energy by manufacturers. Progressive, innovative companies are realising that energy is a security issue hitting the bottom line and beyond. With incentives delivering short payback times, great quality products, and prices at a record low level, now is the time to build extra income streams into your business as an insurance against rising fuel costs. More...
	30/4/2013 Ezine - Web-Based CMMS – Free Review Pack RAM’s flexible and easy to use asset maintenance software controls all aspects of planned and reactive maintenance. More...
	29/4/2013 Ezine - Pumping Food Waste Slurry in AD & Biogas Production Reducing the cost of food waste disposal into landfill is a key performance indicator for manufacturers today. Mike Heap, director of Verder UK and Paul Smith, north east sales representative, explain how processing food waste by removing solids and water allows manufacturers and their recycling partners to extract bio fuel. More...
	29/4/2013 Ezine - Saving Waste in the Boiler House Energy costs today are the highest in recent history. Today’s economic and environmental demands dictate that we get the greatest practical efficiencies from our plants. To do this we must have a basic understanding of what those efficiencies are and how we may implement them. More...
	29/4/2013 Ezine - With Moog Servo Valve Repair, The Difference Is Clear When you trust your machine performance to Moog Servo Valve repair experts, you gain a competitive advantage in productivity and uptime. More...
	11/4/2013 Ezine - White Paper Highlights Cost Savings of Water Treatment A new White Paper from Spirax Sarco shows how steam users can save money and prevent a wide range of potential problems with an effective water treatment regime. More...
	11/4/2013 Ezine - Compressed Air and Vacuum Users, Read On...... Just visiting our website could considerably reduce your maintenance costs, easily and quickly. Our on-line shop lists over 4000 part numbers for consumable items used in the majority of compressed air and vacuum systems. Just type in the number and compare the price. More...
	11/4/2013 Ezine - A Bearing Solution Achieves in Excess of 1,000 Hours Use Bearing manufacturer, NSK, has improved the competitiveness of an OEM manufacturer of concrete head vibrators, by providing a bearing substitution and lubrication programme that is delivering operating cost savings of €306 pa on each vibrator, plus improving operating life and reducing maintenance requirements, mainly for replacement bearings. More...
	11/4/2013 Ezine - Do You Know Your Arc-Seconds From Your Gradians? Angle sensors are generally rated and, just as importantly, priced according to their measurement performance. But performance is stated in a variety of ways and some manufacturers confuse matters by using crafty ‘spec-manship’. More...
	11/4/2013 Ezine - Clean Oil Concept Can Save Money As modern machinery has evolved so have the lubricants and lubrication systems improved to ensure it runs smoothly. Today, more than ever, an increasing demand is put upon lubricants in terms of operating temperatures, loads and performance. More...
	11/4/2013 Ezine - The Ultimate Machinery Protection System Sentry G3 from Sensonics is a high-performance sensor conditioning and monitoring system which offers market leading functions and features. More...
	11/4/2013 Ezine - Smooth ‘Crevice-Free’ Valves For Critical Aseptic Control Eliminating areas which might increase the potential for bacteria growth such as traps and crevices is an important design requirement for control valves used in aseptic applications, such as food processing and pharmaceutical production. More...
	11/4/2013 Ezine - Seven Keys to Understanding Reliability Richard Kelly, Managing Director of EMS Cognito, and a dedicated advocate of combining lean practices with reliability improvements, addresses some common misconceptions about reliability. More...
	13/3/2013 Ezine - A Guide to Material Selection for Rolling Bearings By offering a wide choice of materials and heat treatments for rolling bearings, performance and operating life can be optimised, even for the most demanding industrial applications, says Dr Steve Lacey, engineering manager at Schaeffler UK. More...
	13/3/2013 Ezine - Ex d Enclosures: Understanding the Standards When specifying explosion-proof (Ex d) enclosures to house electrical apparatus for use in explosive atmospheres, engineers must ensure they fully understand the implications of modifying the enclosure as part of the certified equipment prior to and after installation More...
	11/3/2013 Ezine - Fluke Launches Preventive Maintenance Platform Fluke, the global leader in portable electronic test and measurement technology, has launched a Preventive Maintenance platform on its web site to help industrial maintenance personnel to maximise plant uptime and minimise downtime. More...
	11/3/2013 Ezine - Surface Engineering Combats Bearing Friction and Wear Working together with recognised leaders in advanced coatings and surface treatments has enabled Barden to provide specialised Surface Engineering Technology in support of the most demanding applications for precision bearings. Gary Hughes, product engineering manager at The Barden Corporation, outlines the latest developments. More...
	11/3/2013 Ezine - A Change for All Seasons Tightening of European energy efficiency legislation for air conditioning may be seen by some as more red tape but new rules introduced in January could enable building services engineers help their clients make substantial energy savings, says Graham Wright, Legislation Specialist at Daikin UK. More...
	8/3/2013 Ezine - Beamex MC6 – Production of a New Industry Standard Calibrator Beamex launched the MC6 advanced field calibrator and communicator in February 2012. This article takes a closer look at the production of this revolutionary product. More...
	8/3/2013 Ezine - Test Tools Shop The Test Tools Shop brings together a NEW range of professional test & measurement products that are simply not available from other UK suppliers. More...
	8/3/2013 Ezine - Chemical dosing – Case Studies and Practises A short article discussing chemical dosing with good examples of installations around the UK. More...
	8/3/2013 Ezine - Electrical Maintenance NVQ Level 3 From £550 Online XS Training are one of the UK's leading training providers for the City & Guilds 2356 NVQ Level 3 in Electrical Maintenance. More...
	8/2/2013 Ezine - The Plant & Asset Management Exhibition, 8-10 April 2014 Following the successful inaugural Plant & Asset Management Exhibition in April 2012, this bi-annual event will take place again in April 2014. More...
	7/2/2013 Ezine - Combining the Advantages of Steel and Aluminium When comparing steel and aluminium as structural materials, weight, strength, rigidity and workability should be taken into account as well as resource availability and costs. More...
	7/2/2013 Ezine - Thermal Oils in Your Process? Read this.... If you are using thermal oils in your process it would be of great benefit for you to read out pumping solutions application report. More...
	7/2/2013 Ezine - Samson Gets Even Smarter With New Valve Positioner A new, high specification, yet competitively priced valve positioner has been introduced by SAMSON CONTROLS for use on their diaphragm operated valves. More...
	7/2/2013 Ezine - More Features, More Flexibility With Sentry G3 Condition monitoring specialists SENSONICS have introduced the Sentry G3 machinery protection monitor, a high performance signal conditioning unit. More...
	5/2/2013 Ezine - Web-Based CMMS – Free Review Pack RAM’s flexible and easy to use asset maintenance software controls all aspects of planned and reactive maintenance. More...
	17/1/2013 Ezine - Top Ten Training Tips John Saysell, a dedicated engineering training advocate and business development manager with MCP Consulting and Training, reveals the secrets to the successful implementation of industrial training programmes through his ten point strategy. More...
	17/1/2013 Ezine - Mechanical Steam Trap Failure Condensate traps are commonly employed to remove condensed water from steam utilising plant and equipment. In this context they are normally referred to as steam traps. There are many different designs of steam traps to suit a variety of circumstances. More...
	15/1/2013 Ezine - Hygienic, Decorative, Slip-Resistance Resin Flooring John Lord is acknowledged as the leading manufacturer and contractor of specialist resin flooring and ceramic vibration tiling for industrial and commercial applications with a track record of highly successful projects. More...
	10/1/2013 Ezine - Web-based Asset Maintenance Software - Free Review Pack RAM's flexible and easy to use maintenance management software controls all aspects of planned and reactive maintenance. More...
	10/1/2013 Ezine - Improve Your Materials Handling Knowledge The ability of experts at The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology to identify subject material tailored to industry for which there is little existing provision is one of the hallmarks of the courses that we deliver. More...
	3/1/2013 Ezine - The First Choice for Pump Servicing: Verder UK Ltd Verder UK Ltd offer pump services More...
	7/12/2012 Ezine - Are You Prepared for Auto-Enrolment? Auto-enrolment into workplace pension schemes has begun and employers need to prepare for 11 million people over the next five years claiming the free contributions from bosses and the Government. Do not underestimate the administrative burden of complying with the pension reforms and employees opting to stay in, says Mike Jenkins, Business Development Manager at Welplan Pensions. More...
	7/12/2012 Ezine - Beko Technologies Provides Solution For Car Manufacturer BEKO TECHNOLOGIES has helped one of the largest car manufacturing plants in the UK, based in the North East of England. The customer approached BEKO TECHNOLOGIES following a supplier recommendation as they were looking to replace the existing dryers which were also due an overhaul. More...
	7/12/2012 Ezine - New Rotor Insertion Flowmeter Can Be Installed 'Hot' into Live Pipework Spirax Sarco has launched its RIM10 rotor insertion flowmeter for steam, gas and liquids that features rapid installation in live pipework. The RIM10 can be fitted directly into operational pipework using standard hot-tapping techniques, eliminating the need to disrupt production for installation. More...
	7/12/2012 Ezine - New SFG20: The World of Building Maintenance Just Got Simpler New SFG20 standard maintenance specification for building and engineering services drives down costs for clients, consultants and contractors. More...
	2/12/2012 Ezine - New VPU Surge Voltage Protection Devices from Weidmuller Weidmuller's new comprehensive lightning and surge protection VPU series fulfils requirements for protection levels 1, 2 and 3 for power networks. This means full compliance with the current IEC 61643-11 and the future EN 61643-11 standard being introduced in 2013. More...
	26/11/2012 Ezine - Smurfit Kappa Reports Significant Energy Efficiency Benefits with Mobil SHC 600 Smurfit Kappa, one the world's leading producers of paper-based packaging, has reported a gearbox energy efficiency saving of approximately 6.5 percent following a field trial using the new Mobil SHC 600 Series. These high-performance synthetic gear circulating and bearing oils have been engineered to help pulp and paper companies increase productivity, reduce costs and deliver sustainability-related benefits. More...
	7/11/2012 Ezine - Addressing the Skills Shortage to stop the Lights going out It is now becoming well documented that the UK's power sector is facing unprecedented requirements for new skills and is facing two major structural challenges; the reinforcement of existing electrical infrastructure and the demand for new technologies that will further reduce carbon emission rates to meet the UK's renewable energy obligations. More...
	7/11/2012 Ezine - Final Season Announced For Last Flying Vulcan Vulcan to the Sky Trust, the charity that operates the last flying Vulcan bomber, today told its supporters that it is planning for 2013 to be the much-loved aircraft's final flying season, but 400,000 Pounds needs to be raised within months to fund her winter service. More...
	7/11/2012 Ezine - UK Company Announces Zero Waste to Direct Landfill Wolseley UK's entire Leamington Spa site is now zero waste to direct landfill, after the Wolseley Center, National Distribution Center (NDC) and Sustainable Building Center (SBC) all reached industry-leading waste targets. More...
	7/11/2012 Ezine - Condition Monitoring Service Prevents Costly Shut Down of Oil Pump Line BP in Azerbaijan is remotely monitoring its rotating machinery (in this case using GE's Bently Nevada System 1 condition monitoring and diagnostics platform) to help prevent the unnecessary shut down of their main oil pumps, flash gas compressors and other critical units by predicting and notifying early deterioration and unit condition changes. A shut down could have led to production losses of $25,000 - $50,000 per hour. More...
	2/11/2012 Ezine - Pension Auto-Enrolment - Money for Nothing Employers should not underestimate the administrative burden of complying with the pension reforms and employees opting to stay in, says Mike Jenkins, Business Development Manager at Welplan Pensions. More...
	2/11/2012 Ezine - In-Process Control for Fast and Reliable Inspection Using the right weighing technology is key for achieving the required accuracy. As a machine and instrument manufacturer you need weighing components that are both reliable and easy to integrate. More...
	2/11/2012 Ezine - Fulton Boilers At The Heart of DGI's Process Fulton Limited, a leading British manufacturer of steam, hot water and thermal fluid solutions, has supplied three dual-fuel-fired, skid-mounted boiler systems - a 30J and two 40J - to cavity wall insulation specialist Domestic & General Insulation (DGI) and its wholly-owned processing subsidiary Thermabead. More...
	2/11/2012 Ezine - Robust Proximity Probes Perfect For OEM Machinery When you need to monitor shaft expansion, relative vibration and speed on turbines, pumps, compressors, gearboxes or other rotating machinery in your OEM application, the Sensonics range of robust eddy current proximity probes are the perfect solution. More...
	2/11/2012 Ezine - Now You Can Connect SCADA with IBM Maximo As enterprises seek new ways of using mobile technology to maintain their assets, EXTEND7000 offers IBM Maximo users the ultimate mobile solution for maintenance of automated equipment. EXTEND7000 for Maximo allows engineering teams to significantly improve response times to faults and minimise downtime. More...
	8/10/2012 Ezine - Free White Paper Analyses Cost Benefits of Condensate Recovery in Steam Systems A new White Paper from Spirax Sarco shows how steam users can save tens of thousands of pounds by improving their condensate recovery systems. More...
	8/10/2012 Ezine - Do You Require a Maintenance Management Solution but Struggling to Secure the Budget? Request a free review pack from Real Asset Management More...
	8/10/2012 Ezine - Cost-Effective & Flexible Machine Monitoring Condition monitoring specialist SENSONICS has introduced a vibration data collection and analysis service for the benefit of all industrial plant users More...
	4/10/2012 Ezine - Doncaster-Based Maintenance Assistant is One of Six to Face Judging Panel UK Worker of the Year 2012 Finalists Announced More...
	4/10/2012 Ezine - Who Monitors the Monitoring System? Dirk Schulzer, service manager for Industrial Aftermarket Marine at Schaeffler, discusses a marine condition monitoring solution that could have wider industrial applications. More...
	4/10/2012 Ezine - Driving Process Engineering Through Optimized Design and Operations John Taylor, VP of sales operations and business consulting at software specialist AspenTech, describes how investment in process industry software will enable process industry companies to drive engineering efficiencies and be timelier to market, increase project margins and become significantly more competitive. More...
	4/10/2012 Ezine - Customers Left Waiting by Poor Service Standards Ninety-two per cent of British consumers have suffered tradesmen and delivery firms turning up late for appointments, independent research has revealed. More...
	1/10/2012 Ezine - Webinar: VDM KPI Dashboard for Maximo Maintenance Managers across industries are forced to improve their performance. Fortunately many maintenance organizations contain a hidden value potential. More...
	28/9/2012 Experienced Engineers Make the most of your technical expertise by driving the productivity and efficiency of EDF Energy's thermal generation power assets. More...
	17/9/2012 Ezine - From Crusher Belts to Eco-belts The designers of drive belts have faced many challenges over the decades, from the ever-increasing demand for power to the growing need for end users to source more environmentally-friendly products. More...
	17/9/2012 Ezine - Accuracy, Resolution and Repeatability: the Critical Selection Factors... Despite their frequent use, the terms accuracy, resolution and repeatability are often misunderstood. As critical factors in the selection of position and speed sensors, engineers must ensure they fully understand the terminology, says Mark Howard, General Manager at Zettlex Ltd. More...
	17/9/2012 Ezine - Plastic and Printed Electronics Technology in Aerospace Steven Bowns of Technology Futures examines the potential impact of plastic and printed technologies in aerospace electrical and electronic systems. More...
	10/9/2012 Ezine - Ingenious, Innovative, In-Stock. Lee Spring New Series 19 Catalogue Packed with high quality springs* from a world leading manufacturer, the Lee Spring series 19 catalogue is released in September. More...
	6/9/2012 Ezine - Do You Have Problems Pumping Fluids and Slurries With High Solid Content? For engineering managers in the wastewater, anaerobic digestion, food processing and other industries, pumping fluids containing solids, debris and abrasive materials can cause many problems. More...
	4/9/2012 Ezine - Shire Systems is Celebrating 30 Years in Maintenance Software Back in 1982 Shire Systems began designing and delivering low cost management software solutions and as a result over 10 000 organisations worldwide now rely on a Shire solution. More...
	4/9/2012 Ezine - Samson Gets Even Smarter With New Valve Positioner A new, high specification, yet competitively priced valve positioner has been introduced by SAMSON CONTROLS for use on their diaphragm operated valves. More...
	1/8/2012 Ezine - Outsourcing Building Services Maintenance for Pump Systems Water is a critical resource within buildings; we need it for drinking, washing, heating and sanitation. Then there is cleaning and cooking. It is, therefore, essential that all pump systems associated with water services operate at all times - 100%availability is required. It is a tall order, but one that many facilities and building services managers have to deal with. More...
	27/7/2012 Ezine - High Integrity Monitoring For Your Critical Plant Sentry G3 from condition monitoring specialists Sensonics offers unrivalled measurement integrity for your critical rotating plant. More...
	27/7/2012 Ezine - Workplace Pension Schemes and Pension Reforms - Choose Wisely A qualifying pension scheme may solve the administrative burden of complying with the impending Pension Reforms, but only if employers choose wisely and act now, says Mike Jenkins, Business Development Manager at Welplan Pensions. More...
	26/7/2012 Ezine - Farnell Element14 Launches Next Generation Component Catalogues Farnell element14 is pioneering a new generation of component catalogue designed to make the buying process easier. It has developed a new online catalogue, named MROCAT, in Beta, to engage customers in finalising the design of what essentially will be their very own dynamic catalogue. More...
	20/7/2012 Ezine - Accurate, Simple Batch Control Systems Minimise material wastage, ensure legislative compliance and increase batch quality and profitability by reducing under and overfilling. More...
	10/7/2012 Ezine - Identifying and Correcting the Causes of Bearing Failure Identifying and analysing the root cause of a bearing failure is critical in order to prevent similar failures from occurring again. Brian Williams, Quality Director at The Barden Corporation, urges companies to introduce a regime that enables the symptoms of bearing damage to be recognised early, as well as putting a systematic procedure in place for securing damaged bearings. More...
	10/7/2012 Ezine - Energy from Waste Boom There is currently an accelerated development of affordable, clean and secure energy from waste (EfW) facilities to help the UK meet its legally binding 2050 climate change targets. As specialist recruiters within this market, Allen & York have explored this growth, looking at new projects across the UK and the associated career opportunities that are being created. More...
	10/7/2012 Ezine - Responding to Global Challenges Selda Gunsel, vice president of Lubricant Technology at Shell, discusses the forces shaping today's lubricant market More...
	29/6/2012 Ezine - One Company, One Guarantee, One Responsibility John Lord specialist flooring is a company committed to delivering the best possible industrial resin flooring solutions. More...
	29/6/2012 Ezine - Boost Performance: EXTEND7000 mobile SCADA and Maintenance EXTEND7000 is a mobile SCADA and maintenance (MSM) application used for monitoring automation and managing planned or unplanned maintenance. More...
	29/6/2012 Ezine - Infrared window transmission – Crystal vs. Polymer Mesh The IW Series is the latest generation of Intelligent IR Windows from CorDEX Instruments. More...
	28/6/2012 Ezine - Seeking a Web Based Asset Maintenance Solution? Discover how RAM's intuitive, web based maintenance management system provides users with a complete solution to their business activities More...
	28/6/2012 Ezine - Eurovib (Acoustic Products) Ltd Eurovib (Acoustic Products) Ltd is a Surrey based Noise and Vibration Control specialist. We were established in 1971 and although we are based within the UK many of our products are exported throughout the world. More...
	28/6/2012 Ezine - Accurate, Simple Energy Monitoring The Tinytag Energy Logger from Gemini Data Loggers is a safe and non-invasive tool for testing and monitoring power usage of both single devices and complete premises. More...
	12/6/2012 Ezine - Selecting Position Sensors in High Vibration Environments - The Do's and Don'ts Machines that are subject to harsh or prolonged vibration present challenges for many components - none more so than position and speed sensors. More...
	12/6/2012 Ezine - Technip Reduce Costs and Vessel Downtime Technip is a leader in engineering, technologies and project management for the oil and gas industry. More...
	12/6/2012 Ezine - New!! Next generation Intelligent IR Windows The IW Series is the latest generation of Intelligent IR Windows from CorDEX Instruments. More...
	12/6/2012 Ezine - Dust in the Factory - Still an Explosive Topic Gordon Low, marketing segment manager at COOPER Crouse-Hinds, discusses how factories can reduce the risk of dust explosions occurring in the workplace and the latest standards relating to explosion-proof electrical equipment installed in these areas. More...
	8/6/2012 Ezine - BG01 boiler safety guidance: How to comply With the publication of the new "Guidance on Safe Operation of Boilers" (BG01), now is the time to ensure boiler house operations are compliant in the eyes of regulators and insurers. More...
	1/6/2012 Ezine - Technical Training Courses MCP's technical training specialises in practical learning programmes for upskilling technicians and operators. More...
	1/6/2012 Ezine - DYMO Industrial Designed based on input from professional installers, DYMO Industrial label printers and labels are tough, affordable and long-lasting. More...
	1/6/2012 Ezine - Buying Or Installing Pumps? All you need to know about the technical and practical issues of pumping can be found on our website. More...
	1/6/2012 Ezine - The Ultimate Machinery Protection System Sentry G3 from Sensonics is a high-performance sensor conditioning and monitoring system which offers market leading functions and features. More...
	11/5/2012 Ezine - Tomorrows Technology One of the world's most sought-after keynote speakers at corporate events, futurist Dr Patrick Dixon, gives his take on tomorrow's technology trends. More...
	10/5/2012 Ezine - The 16 Billion Sterling Profit Pot Rod Ellsworth, Vice President for Global Asset Sustainability at Infor, looks at some of the biggest culprits of energy waste in manufacturing plants, and highlights the colossal opportunity to turn waste into profit. More...
	10/5/2012 Ezine - Last call for businesses to take part in the programme to find the UK's top manufacturer The Manufacturing Excellence 2012 programme, from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), offers 20,000 pounds worth of free consultancy to all businesses that enter. More...
	10/5/2012 Ezine - Using Android Devices to Manage Safety Inspections Over the past couple of years, the explosive penetration of Android-based mobile phones and tablets has changed the marketplace with an estimated 6 million weekly activations of Android devices at the beginning of 2012. More...
	10/5/2012 Ezine - Resolvers, Optical Encoders and Inductive Encoders Resolvers are good. Encoders are good. But which is the best? There's only one way to find out...Mark Howard of Zettlex examines the strengths and weaknesses of each and also offers some alternatives. More...
	4/5/2012 Ezine - DYMO Industrial Designed based on input from professional installers, DYMO Industrial label printers and labels are tough, affordable and long-lasting. More...
	3/5/2012 Ezine - New, Specialist Website Offers Affordable Range of World-Class Motors, Drives & Inverters... Industry OEMs and plant managers now have a new online, direct source of AC motors and inverters at some of the best prices available online in the UK. More...
	2/5/2012 Ezine - Order your comprehensive guide to industrial weighing components If you are responsible for selecting and integrating weighing and measuring equipment into industrial applications and solutions then METTLER TOLEDO's Weighing Components catalogue could be beneficial in your operations. More...
	1/5/2012 Ezine - Samson Gets Even Smarter With New Valve Positioner A new, high specification, yet competitively priced valve positioner has been introduced by SAMSON CONTROLS for use on their diaphragm operated valves. More...
	10/4/2012 Ezine - 'Bearing' the Strain Bearings are crucial to the operation of a wide range of production machinery. Yet many experience reduced service life and premature failure, creating additional and unnecessary costs in terms of production downtime and expenditure on spare parts. More...
	10/4/2012 Ezine - The Road to Operational Efficiencies Managers of process plants strive for operational efficiencies. Maximising throughput, availability and product quality, while minimising operating, maintenance and energy costs, lie behind getting the most from your plant. More...
	10/4/2012 Ezine - Weidmuller two-pole voltage testers exceed Standards requirements Weidmuller has introduced six new versions of two-pole voltage testers that more than fulfil the revised standard for these types of testers ie. DIN VDE 0682-401:2011 and DIN EN-61243-3:2010). More...
	3/4/2012 Ezine - DYMO Industrial Designed based on input from professional installers, DYMO Industrial label printers and labels are tough, affordable and long-lasting. More...
	3/4/2012 Ezine - VIBRATION PROBLEMS? Vibcheck from Sensonics is a pocket-sized vibration meter that can help you avoid costly breakdowns. More...
	3/4/2012 Ezine - BG01 boiler safety guidance: How to comply With the publication of the new "Guidance on Safe Operation of Boilers" (BG01), now is the time to ensure boiler house operations are compliant in the eyes of regulators and insurers. More...
	3/4/2012 Ezine - Operator Asset Care, the key to Continuous Improvement An Operator Asset Care programme is based on the principle that the people operating your production equipment, on a daily/regular basis, are the ones most capable of improving equipment reliability and performance. More...
	20/3/2012 Ezine - Managing Diesel Fuel Quality in a Stored Environment Tim Brady, of ALGAE-X International, discusses the importance of having a fuel maintenance programme in place for critical items of plant, for example standby generators. More...
	20/3/2012 Ezine - Tandem Encoders 'Tandem Encoder' is a new term but one which is increasingly being used by mechanical and electrical designers. Mark Howard of Zettlex explains what a Tandem Encoder is; how they work; their technical features and where they are best utilised. More...
	20/3/2012 Ezine - Optimising pipe fit-up and logistics improves welding productivity For oil and gas companies, pipeline welding is a high precision task that cannot afford any delays. If pipes fit together poorly due to geometrical defects, this can lead to repairs and rework, which impacts tight production schedules. More...
	10/3/2012 Ezine - The best pump services from Verder UK For over 50 years, the Verder group has offered a range of pump services for all Verder pump ranges and 3rd party brands. More...
	21/2/2012 Ezine - ROBUST PROXIMITY PROBES PERFECT FOR OEM MACHINERY When you need to monitor shaft expansion, relative vibration and speed on turbines, pumps, compressors, gearboxes or other rotating machinery in your OEM application, the Sensonics range of robust eddy current proximity probes are the perfect solution. More...
	21/2/2012 Ezine - BEST PRACTICES FOR MOTOR ASSET MANAGEMENT ISE Predictive Industrial Service Engineering and PdMA Corporation will attend Plant & Asset Management Exhibition 2012 17-19 APRIL,Hall 3,NEC BIRMINGHAM More...
	20/2/2012 Ezine - Advanced Accuracy and Reliability in Tank Weighing A well designed and properly installed Tank Weighing System ensures accurate and reliable production, batch after batch. Such systems avoid loss of materials, maximising cost efficiencies. More...
	15/2/2012 Ezine - POLISHED PERFORMERS MEET CRITICAL ASEPTIC CONTROL DEMANDS Among the key design requirements for control valves used in aseptic applications, such as food processing, is a cavity-free body design without crevices or 'traps' to ensure that the potential for bacteria growth is eliminated, the ability for effective CIP and SIP (Clean or Sterilised In Place) and to be self-draining. More...
	26/1/2012 Ezine - Spirax Sarco Opens UK Steam Technology Centre The centre is the only training facility in the UK to offer a fully-operational steam system with SCADA control. This enables it to enhance the quality of training across Spirax Sarco’s array of steam engineering courses, as well as supporting live technology demonstrations. More...
	26/1/2012 Ezine - HIGH INTEGRITY MONITORING FOR YOUR CRITICAL PLANT Sentry G3 from condition monitoring specialists Sensonics offers unrivalled measurement integrity for your critical rotating plant. More...
	23/1/2012 Ezine - The Economic Benefit of Hiring Ever considered hiring Variable Speed Drives? What about electric motors, transformers, generators or even switchgear? Buying products outright is the way industry have always done things. But it may be time to think again hiring from Quantum Controls could be the most cost-effective business decision you make all year. More...
	13/1/2012 Ezine - Dirty Oil Causes Breakdowns Is your oil as clean as it should be? Are you analysing your oil to prove it? Dirty oil leads to component wear and ultimately failure. You've got to do something about it... More...
	21/12/2011 Ezine - New Transmitter Combines Dewpoint and Pressure Measurements Dew point measurement combined with process pressure measurement offers further unique advantages. More...
	21/12/2011 Ezine - The advantages of using AeroGo Air Skates AeroGo's Load Module System allows loads to be literally floated to their destination on a thin film of air. Load movement is easy, exceptionally smooth and omni-directional and the System can be used anywhere there is an adequate floor surface. AeroGo Load Modules distribute the load weight over More...
	22/11/2011 Ezine - Spring Web Site Provides Improved Navigation and Content The Lee Spring UK website has been reconfigured with the customer in mind. Offering faster access to the 'request a quote' function, specification information, cad downloads and enhanced learning content. More...
	15/11/2011 Ezine - Increase Performance by Choose the Right Scale No matter what you buy, there are always different levels of quality and price. That goes for scales too. More...
	8/11/2011 Ezine - ROBUST PROXIMITY PROBES PERFECT FOR OEM MACHINERY When you need to monitor shaft expansion, relative vibration and speed on turbines, pumps, compressors, gearboxes or other rotating machinery in your OEM application, the Sensonics range of robust eddy current proximity probes are the perfect solution. More...
	3/11/2011 Ezine - Seeking an operational maintenance solution? Discover how RAM’s computerised maintenance management system provides users with a complete solution to their business activities; streamlining maintenance processes by reducing equipment downtime, increasing productivity and actively managing both planned and unplanned maintenance scenarios. More...
	26/10/2011 Ezine - Bearing lubrication: essential for the reliable operation of modern plant and machinery The performance of modern plant and machinery depends on the reliability of rolling bearings. Nick Dowding, Applications Engineering Manager at The Barden Corporation, discusses the importance of bearing lubrication, including the correct selection, application and maintenance of rolling bearing lubricants and greases. More...
	26/10/2011 Ezine - Energy Analysis - How it Saved Jobs at Austin Energy Austin Energy Company owned and operated by the city of Austin, Texas, provides electric and natural gas service to 388,000 customers and a population exceeding 900,000 in the Lone Star State’s capital city and surrounding area. More...
	26/10/2011 Ezine - Why Servicing Turbocor is a Job for Experts The principles behind the Turbocor compressor are completely different to conventional compression systems. The high performance technology has proved to be exceptionally reliable, however when units do need servicing it is vital to use trained specialists who know what they are doing, or it can result in very serious problems. More...
	20/10/2011 Ezine - Next-generation steam flow meter offers unprecedented accuracy... Spirax Sarco brings unrivalled accuracy to steam metering with the launch of its TVA steam flow meter, a next-generation spring-loaded inline variable area meter. More...
	11/10/2011 Ezine - Wycombe District Council Enjoys the Multiple Benefits of Thermal Imaging Wycombe District Council is a true testament to the multiple benefits and the overall quality of the Testo 875 Thermal Imaging Camera. The newly acquired camera allows the Council to be pro-active and totally efficient across all aspects of buildings and domestic housings management by means of identifying and preventing any serious problems or anomalies before they can cause damage, resulting in high costs. More...
	10/10/2011 Ezine - Nissan Forklift launches RG Reach series with superior operator safety The engineering industry is full of buzzwords: carbon neutral, cost-effective and high-performance, but the one word that outranks every other when it comes to choosing equipment is safety. More...
	4/10/2011 Ezine - Consider the True Cost of Compressed Air Richard Moore, Marketing Services Manager at Parker Hannifin’s domnick hunter Industrial Division, explains how cost effective and environmentally friendly compressed air purification products can provide the highest quality compressed air while achieving considerable energy savings. More...
	4/10/2011 Ezine - The Importance of Glove Grip: Increase Productivity & Reduce Accidents Good glove grip is essential to avoid potential accidents and serious injury in the workplace from loss of secure control. Individuals working in oily, greasy, wet, soapy and dry conditions need gloves that grip properly, to protect them from injury, reduce hand fatigue and enable them to work efficiently. More...
	4/10/2011 Ezine - EAL launches Level 2 Certificate in Preparation for Working ... Specialist industry awarding organisation, EAL, has launched a unique Level 2 Certificate in Preparation for Working in the Engineering Manufacturing Industry. More...
	9/9/2011 Ezine - ExxonMobil Lubricants and Petroleum Specialties Showcases its Range... ExxonMobil Lubricants and Petroleum Specialties, a division of Exxon Mobil Corporation, has continued to develop its offer for the oil and gas industry through the introduction of its new, fully-synthetic, Mobil SHC Gear series. More...
	9/9/2011 Ezine - NEW! UT5000 Intrinsically Safe Thickness Gauge The quality hand held tool with its Intrinsically safe design, has been tested for both ATEX and IECEx Zone 1 IIC T4 hazardous (explosive) areas, making it the perfect device for hazardous area personnel, who currently have to obtain special ‘hot work permits’ to use standard electronic measuring devices. More...
	6/9/2011 Ezine - Nissan Forklift getting greener every day Until recently, the term ‘green credentials’ meant very little to manufacturers. Now, it’s something a business regularly has to demonstrate to win, and retain, customers. More...
	2/9/2011 Ezine - De.Solv.It Keeps Wind Turbines Turning Mykal were approached by a major supplier and maintenance engineer of energy-generating wind turbines with an application to degrease the exterior and interior walls of a turbine tower after an oil spillage 80 metres above ground. More...
	26/8/2011 Ezine - Lease Drives and Motors Almost all industries can benefit from the installation of Variable Speed Drives and energy efficient motors to reduce their carbon footprint and reduce their ever increasing energy costs. More...
	25/8/2011 Ezine - High Quality, Affordable Thermal Imaging Cameras from Testo Testo offer a wide range of high quality Thermal Imaging Camera’s with an extensive range of features, essential to everyday use; the ideal preventative maintenance tool for industrial applications, including electrical and mechanical thermal surveys, to highlight thermal anomalies and reduce costs. More...
	15/8/2011 Ezine - Hazardous Area Weighing Explained METTLER TOLEDO invites you to access its FREE online seminar which explains hazardous area weighing. More...
	26/7/2011 Ezine - Reducing the Risk Start-up, shutdown and transition actions are often the most dangerous periods of operation in the process industries. Safety Instrumented Systems are commonly used during steady, continuous production but often bypassed during important dynamic phases of operation such as start-up. More...
	26/7/2011 Ezine - WORKSHOP SAVES WORKSHOP TIME Henkel, maker of Loctite brand products, has developed an initiative that helps companies with their maintenance management programmes. More...
	26/7/2011 Ezine - Testing Critical Motors is Vital for Industry When a motor is new the dielectric strength of the insulation is high. Overtime this slowly deteriorates with potential for problems. Operating environment and process variables can also adversely affect the motor’s life. Periodic motor monitoring will detect problems prior to likely failure, with all that implies for the process or operation. More...
	22/7/2011 Ezine - New engineering jobs announced at Nissan Sunderland Plant Nissan has launched a major new recruitment campaign for engineers and maintenance technicians to join its record-breaking Sunderland Plant. More...
	15/7/2011 Ezine - MANUFACTURING ADVISORY SERVICE URGES BUSINESSES TO TAKE THE RED TAPE CHALLENGE MAS is urging manufacturers to seize a unique opportunity to tell the Government what they really think about the rules and regulations that affect them. More...
	12/7/2011 Ezine - Connect with Shire CMMS SHIRE PIRANA CMMS shows you how to take advantage of the latest browser-based technology to provide software that works for you, when and where you need it. More...
	12/7/2011 Ezine - Online Seminar - Build Tank, Vessel and Hopper Weighing Systems Discover all there is to know about planning and installing tank, silo, vessel and hopper weighing systems. METTER TOLEDO invites you to access its FREE on demand online seminar which covers the fundamentals of designing, building and installing such solutions. More...
	12/7/2011 Ezine - Nissan Forklift announces three-year growth strategy Nissan Forklift (GB) is entering a new era as it announces new products, a new headquarters, and a new structure to better serve its customer base and develop its dealer network. The business has announced an ambitious growth plan that aims to treble its sales by 2014. More...
	12/7/2011 Ezine - Online condition monitoring with ERIKS Machine Webwatch The first challenge with condition monitoring is not, 'what's the best method of monitoring vibration?' but 'what's the best method of selecting the best method?' More...
	5/7/2011 Ezine - 24x7 Thermal Monitoring for Mission Critical Equipment EXERTHERM is a 24x7 Continuous Thermal Monitoring system developed by QHi-Group for the monitoring of mission critical mechanical & electrical equipment. Exertherm™ is the new ‘Best Practice’ form of IR inspection & is the Next Technology Step on from Thermography. More...
	30/6/2011 Ezine - Harmonising Productivity with Machine Safety Safety gates, protective covers and machine guards prevent hazards associated with moving parts. However, the correct functioning of a safeguard can only be guaranteed by using the appropriate sensor technology. Alex Bryce, Sales Manager at Pilz Automation Technology, considers the sensor systems currently available and the selection criteria that designers should consider. More...
	30/6/2011 Ezine - Engineers respond to rise in take-up of apprenticeships, more needs to be done While the rise in the take-up of apprenticeships is welcome, Skills Minister John Hayes is right to say there is still more to do. More...
	30/6/2011 Ezine - Shell UK sentenced over Norfolk gas blast Energy giant Shell UK Limited has been ordered by Ipswich Crown Court to pay a total of £1.24million in fines and costs over the explosion and fire at its Bacton gas terminal in Norfolk in 2008. More...
	28/6/2011 Ezine - High Quality, Affordable Thermal Imaging Cameras from Testo Testo offer a wide range of high quality Thermal Imaging Camera’s with an extensive range of features, essential to everyday use; the ideal preventative maintenance tool for industrial applications, including electrical and mechanical thermal surveys, to highlight thermal anomalies and reduce costs. More...
	23/6/2011 Ezine - Testing Critical Motors is Vital for Industry When a motor is new the dielectric strength of the insulation is high. Overtime this slowly deteriorates with potential for problems. Operating environment and process variables can also adversely affect the motor’s life. Periodic motor monitoring will detect problems prior to likely failure, with all that implies for the process or operation. More...
	23/6/2011 Ezine - Four Reasons Why Outsourcing Steam System Maintenance Produces Efficiency Savings Steam system users can find it hard to dedicate the time and in-house resources to establish comprehensive planned maintenance of specialised steam heating plant. More...
	23/6/2011 Ezine - Baker Condition Monitoring Aids Testing on Electric and Hybrid Vehicles In recent years, the hybrid / electric vehicle market has been growing rapidly, and with this, numerous R & D projects within the UK. More...
	22/6/2011 Ezine - Seeking new planned and breakdown maintenance software? Maintenance4000, a computerised maintenance management system from Real Asset Management (RAM) provides users with a complete solution to their business activities More...
	22/6/2011 Ezine - Going beyond the repairable asset The value and economics of plant reliability on a macro basis is something that is being missed by production/maintenance seniors, site principals and financial personnel. More...
	16/6/2011 Ezine - HIGH INTEGRITY MONITORING FOR YOUR CRITICAL PLANT Sentry G3 from condition monitoring specialists Sensonics offers unrivalled measurement integrity for your critical rotating plant. More...
	16/6/2011 Ezine - SIMPLE ONE PUSH BUTTON CONTROL FOR VALVES The Series 3730 electro pneumatic control valve positioner with PROFIBUS-PA communication from SAMSON CONTROLS provides high quality air output capacity combined with optimum functionality and ease-of-operation. More...
	25/5/2011 Ezine - Incremental versus Absolute Sensors Most engineers still specify incremental position sensors because they think absolute versions are too costly. But the market has changed in recent years. Mark Howard, General Manager of Zettlex Ltd provides an up-to-date review of the relative merits of incremental versus absolute approaches. More...
	24/5/2011 Ezine - Chain jumping its sprockets - here's the solution Have you ever had problems with transmission chain jumping or climbing its sprockets? In this article, David Turner of Renold Chain, looks at the causes and discusses how the problem can be overcome. More...
	20/5/2011 Ezine - A Comprehensive Back-Up Service from Byworth Boilers As a leading manufacturer of industrial steam and hot water boilers Byworth Boilers understands that continuity and reliability of production is of paramount importance to its customers. That’s why Byworth offers a comprehensive back-up service covering Servicing, Spares and Parts, Boiler Hire and Training. More...
	19/5/2011 Ezine - Karcher One Hundred Pound cashback incentive Karcher the world leader in design and manufacture of cleaning machines, has launched a spring cashback incentive when purchasing a new Karcher HDS hot water pressure washer. More...
	17/5/2011 Ezine - 24x7 Thermal Monitoring for Mission Critical Equipment EXERTHERM is a 24x7 Continuous Thermal Monitoring system developed by QHi-Group for the monitoring of mission critical mechanical & electrical equipment. Exertherm™ is the new ‘Best Practice’ form of IR inspection & is the Next Technology Step on from Thermography. More...
	11/5/2011 Ezine - An Invitation to SoftSols Group’s free Regional Road shows Come along to see examples of the latest technology, the benefits of our award winning maintenance management software and to hear, first hand, how our customers are realising big business gains with our class leading maintenance management software – Agility. More...
	11/5/2011 Ezine - Precision Weighing With 366 measurements per second: The IND131 and IND331 industrial process terminals compensate for disturbances such as vibrations from production equipment in an instant. More...
	20/4/2011 Ezine - The Fluke 810 Vibration Tester: A new and better way to troubleshoot machine problems To the savvy maintenance professional, industrial machinery almost 'talks' to reveal its condition. The key to success is in understanding what the machine is saying. More...
	15/4/2011 Ezine - Calibration: supporting accuracy supports the bottom line In this article Trevor Dunger, of ABB Measurement Products, explains the growing importance of calibration in promoting good practice and profitability. More...
	14/4/2011 Ezine - New Scale Terminals Offer Easy Integration METTLER TOLEDO is pleased to introduce the IND131/331 terminals – a new family of industrial process weighing terminals that provides maximum connectivity with smaller footprints. More...
	6/4/2011 Ezine - Boost your bottom line with maintenance support Steam users can find it hard to dedicate the time and in-house resources to establish comprehensive planned maintenance. More...
	5/4/2011 Ezine - SIMPLE ONE PUSH BUTTON CONTROL FOR VALVES The Series 3730 electro pneumatic control valve positioner with PROFIBUS-PA communication from SAMSON CONTROLS provides high quality air output capacity combined with optimum functionality and ease-of-operation. More...
	5/4/2011 Ezine - HIGH INTEGRITY MONITORING FOR YOUR CRITICAL PLANT Sentry G3 from condition monitoring specialists Sensonics offers unrivalled measurement integrity for your critical rotating plant. More...
	22/3/2011 Ezine - Technology comes full circle - History of the gearbox The advanced gearbox of today has reverted to what it was back in 1928 – three-speed and non-synchromesh. At least that is the way it is for Volvo Trucks. The development span between that first gearbox and the very latest – the I-Shift – encompasses a huge amount of work and many landmark accomplishments. More...
	21/3/2011 Ezine - Norgren launches the new Pneufit S stainless steel fitting... Norgren has extended its proven, reliable and durable range of push-in fittings with the introduction of the all-new Pneufit S series. Providing a perfect complement to its existing Pneufit range the new fittings feature quick and easy connection without the need for tools thus saving on valuable installation times. More...
	21/3/2011 Ezine - Boiler Maintenance: Why Is It So Important? Fulton's sales and marketing manager Carl Knight looks at why regular maintenance of a steam boiler is so important. More...
	21/3/2011 Ezine - NEW! ATEX Certified handheld laser measure from CorDEX Instruments The highly accurate LaserMETER 3000XP with its robust flameproof design is both ATEX and IECEx certified for use in Zone 1 IIC T4 hazardous (explosive) areas, making it the perfect distance measurement tool for hazardous area personnel. More...
	10/3/2011 Ezine - Build Tank, Vessel and Hopper Weighing Systems METTLER TOLEDO offers an online seminar which discusses the planning and installation of tank, silo, vessel and hopper weighing systems. The online seminar covers the fundamentals of designing, building and installing such solutions. It addresses engineers, designers and service people. More...
	7/3/2011 Ezine - Adhesives are made for Maintenance Colin Chapman of Henkel, manufacturer of Loctite branded adhesives, says that the right adhesive is vital for the best results. More...
	7/3/2011 Ezine - Online condition monitoring system prevents failure of a power generation turbine At the beginning of 2010, an online vibration monitoring system prevented the failure of a steam turbine and the Tata Steel (then Corus) production plant at Scunthorpe, which could have cost the company many thousands of pounds in lost power generation. More...
	28/2/2011 Ezine - Operator Asset Care..See Our 10 Top Tips to Improve Equipment Reliability An Operator Asset Care programme is based on the principle that the people operating production equipment on a daily basis are the ones most capable of improving equipment reliability and performance. More...
	28/2/2011 Ezine - ASEPTIC CONTROL VALVES FOR HIGH PURITY PROCESSES Control valves with smooth, cavity-free internals which help to promote effective CIP and SIP (Clean or Sterilised in Place) and which are also self-draining, are the preferred choice in many food processing and pharmaceutical applications. More...
	24/2/2011 Ezine - NEW! ToughPIX 2300XP Series, ATEX and CSA certified explosion proof digital camera The quality hand held camera with its robust IP54 flameproof design is both ATEX certified Zone 1 IIC T4 and CSA certified Class I Div.1 Groups B, C, D for hazardous (explosive) areas. More...
	24/2/2011 Ezine - SENTRY G3 - ONLINE MACHINE MONITORING WITH ROBUSTNESS The established Sentry G3 machinery protection monitor is a high performance signal conditioning unit with a universal sensor interface developed by condition monitoring specialists SENSONICS. More...
	24/2/2011 Ezine - Seeking new planned and breakdown maintenance software? Maintenance4000, a computerised maintenance management system from Real Asset Management (RAM) provides users with a complete solution to their business activities More...
	24/2/2011 Ezine - Complete Maintenance Management Software (CMMS) - Free Review Pack If seeking a maintenance software package to manage everything from simple work control to activities such as planned maintenance... More...
	7/2/2011 Ezine - SISTEMA - The software utility for the evaluation of safety-related parts of control systems Safety expert, Leuze electronic, is running a FREE one-day workshop on March 21 (repeated on March 23), on how to use SISTEMA, the freely available safety software tool for evaluating safety-related parts in control systems. More...
	7/2/2011 Ezine - The Restoration of the Medway Queen The paddle steamer 'Medway Queen' is the last estuary pleasure steamer surviving in the United Kingdom. More...
	7/2/2011 Ezine - Why do engineers dislike potentiometers? Potentiometers have been around for a long time and are still, by far, the most commonly used position sensor. So why does every design engineer seem to be looking for a non-contact alternative? More...
	7/2/2011 Ezine - Life means Life - Protecting your future for the long-term Simon Ellam from Siemens Industry Automation pinpoints a growing trend that is seeing companies base their control system plans around long-term lifecycle asset knowledge. More...
	27/1/2011 Ezine - Michell Instruments offer solutions for easy maintenance on compressed air systems... Michell Instruments’ range of dew-point transmitters, relative humidity instruments and their oxygen analyzers are designed to make many routine maintenance and monitoring tasks quick and simple. More...
	20/1/2011 Ezine - Unique Calibration Service Without Weights for Large Weighing Systems METTLER TOLEDO has developed a unique service for calibrating large capacity weighing systems without reference weights or material substitution. More...
	18/1/2011 Ezine - NEW! ATEX Certified handheld laser measure from CorDEX Instruments The highly accurate LaserMETER 3000XP with its robust flameproof design is both ATEX and IECEx certified for use in Zone 1 IIC T4 hazardous (explosive) areas, making it the perfect distance measurement tool for hazardous area personnel. More...
	10/12/2010 Ezine - HOSPITAL WASTING ENERGY THROUGH STEAM LOSS The European Union Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings, which relates to all member nations of the European Union, are obliged to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions, particularly from buildings. More...
	6/12/2010 Ezine - Definitive "O" ring guide gives technical data for all applications The new issue of James Walker’s "0" Ring Guide is now freely available to all industrial users and specifiers of "0" ring sealing systems. More...
	17/11/2010 Ezine - Planning to automate your maintenance management processes in 2011? Maintenance4000, a computerised maintenance management system from Real Asset Management (RAM) provides users with a complete solution to their business activities; streamlining maintenance processes by reducing equipment downtime, increasing productivity and actively managing both planned and unplanned maintenance scenarios. More...
	27/10/2010 Ezine - Hansford Sensors highlight benefits of On-line monitoring using HS-423 Dual Output Sensors In the world of industry, pressure to deliver high productivity whilst keeping costs down has over the last two decades led to a rise in the implementation of machinery vibration monitoring programs with great success. More...
	26/10/2010 Ezine - Struggling to manage planned and unplanned maintenance? Struggling to manage planned and unplanned maintenance? Maintenance4000 from Real Asset Management (RAM) provides users with a complete solution to their business activities More...
	26/10/2010 Ezine - Unique A to V condition monitoring package covers all maintenance scenarios Companies that need to monitor the condition of both slow and fast rotating plant and machinery can now benefit from a unique combination of vibration and acoustic emission monitoring products, available from a single source in the UK. More...
	21/10/2010 Ezine - Innovative Solutions In Condition-Based Asset Management EA Technology is a world-leading innovator in power engineering solutions, designed to make the management and operation of electricity assets more efficient, reliable and safe, at lower cost. More...
	18/10/2010 Ezine - Baker/SKF motor testing equipment used worldwide Offline equipment tests the entire insulation system of motors and will highlight any issues that may affect the motor’s future reliability. More...
	4/10/2010 Ezine - Infor Whether you're in manufacturing, distribution, service management, transportation or the public sector, you need enterprise asset management software that helps you More...
	29/9/2010 Ezine - IMHX Set To Buoy Up The UK’s Handling Industry As the green shoots begin to appear in the UK economy, the storage and handling sector is gearing up for its flagship exhibition – IMHX 2010 – which open for four days at the NEC in Birmingham from 16-19 November. More...
	24/9/2010 Ezine - Sira issues worlds first IECEx Competence Certificate to Petroplus’s Steve Worldley The IECEx Certification of Personnel Competence (CoPC) Scheme provides global Ex industries with a single system for the assessment and qualification of persons meeting the competence prerequisites needed to properly implement the safety requirements when working in potentially explosive atmospheres. More...
	23/9/2010 Ezine - Complete support from Endress+Hauser – what else could you need? The service you receive from Endress+Hauser doesn’t end with the sale. We’re there for our customers to provide full support throughout their plant’s life cycle with top quality service solutions. Whether it’s troubleshooting, emergency spares, calibration or straightforward advice - choose what you want and get exactly what you need! More...
	23/9/2010 Ezine - Introduction To PCMS Engineering PCMS Engineering provide advanced Maintenance solutions for industry, particularly for those companies that operate within a secure, sensitive or potentially hazardous environment. More...
	14/9/2010 Ezine - ABAC UK Introduces Alup Energy Box Leading compressed air specialist ABAC have developed a new system which can be used to recover the waste heat generated by compressed air systems. Called Alup Energy Box, it converts the heat generated by most air compressors into hot water up to 70ºC for industrial processes, as well as domestic applications such as hot water for washrooms, replacing the energy normally used to fuel boilers or heaters. More...
	14/9/2010 Ezine - Developing and delivering a maintenance plan: the basics So how do you go about setting up all of the maintenance requirements for several thousand discretely maintainable assets? This was the challenge facing us when we needed to set up the maintenance requirements package for a baggage handling system in a new airport terminal in a major international airport. More...
	14/9/2010 Ezine - Karcher HDS 5/11 U - bringing portability to high-pressure cleaning Karcher - the inventor of the hot water pressure cleaner – has introduced its first portable model, revolutionising professional hot water high pressure cleaning. More...
	2/9/2010 Ezine - High-performance pyrometer including precision laser sight (CS laser) The company Optris deals with the development, production and sales of the following products: infrared thermometers, infrared sensors and infrared cameras. Additionally Optris offers calibration services for non-contact temperature measurement for industrial applications. More...
	2/9/2010 Ezine - The Missing Link : How Electronic Tags Make the Maintenance Management Connection Most businesses accept the importance of managing maintenance for their industrial plant, vehicles and other critical equipment. More...
	20/7/2010 Ezine - Control and Optimisation of Maintenance Processes via a CMMS A Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) serves as a tool to efficiently control, plan and optimise maintenance processes. For this, however, it is essential that the system be integrated properly into maintenance activities. More...
	20/7/2010 Ezine - Invest in your compressed air system to save money! David Burton, General Manager at Boge identifies the key areas within a compressed air system where investment can, in most cases, pay for itself through sustainable reductions in energy costs. More...
	20/7/2010 Ezine - EAL responds to Vince Cable's plans for a Graduate Tax Ann Watson, Managing Director of leading awarding organisation EAL (EMTA Awards Limited), today highlighted how Vince Cable’s proposed “Graduate Tax” could benefit the vocational sector. She highlighted how proposals to tax graduates could encourage students to pursue advanced level vocational training instead of going to university. More...
	20/7/2010 Ezine - Overcoming The Challenges Facing The Materials Handling Industry The materials handling industry, not just here in the UK but right across Europe, has never faced such a crisis as the one it faces today. Here John Meale, Vice President of FEM (Fédération Européenne de la Manutention) - the European Federation of Materials Handling which represents the materials handling industry in Europe - and Managing Director of Thorworld Industries, talks about the challenges facing the industry and what action FEM is taking. More...
	19/7/2010 Ezine - Working At Height Limited Working At Height Limited having spent much of the last six months promoting their latest product and are convinced that it will be the must have platform in offices, educational institutions, also engineering and maintenance industries in general and not in the to distant future, solving not only the very real dangers associated with accessing high level over desks but also offering a multi purpose platform for all low level work. More...
	19/7/2010 Ezine - METTLER TOLEDO Sets new standards in raisable floor scales Regardless of the environment, nothing stands in the way of the scale's operation. More...
	19/7/2010 Ezine - Introduction to Vibration In simplest terms, vibration in motorised equipment is merely the back and forth movement or oscillation of machines and components, such as drive motors, driven devices (pumps, compressors and so on) and the bearings, shafts, gears, belts and other elements that make up mechanical systems. More...
	9/7/2010 Ezine - Volume Production Allows Even Keener Pricing Once the preserve of the few, thermal imaging is now the technology of many. And the good news is that it has never been more affordable. Technology leader FLIR has actively driven this trend. More...
	9/7/2010 Ezine - Hy-Pro Filtration's Total Systems Cleanliness Approach: Saw Mill Hydraulic... The Problem – Saw mills operate multiple pieces of large equipment with hydraulic systems. When this equipment faces unplanned downtime due to important components becoming fouled from contaminated fluid, profits decrease while production costs increase. More...
	8/7/2010 Ezine - Computerised Maintenance Management Software Struggling to manage planned and unplanned maintenance? Maintenance4000 from Real Asset Management (RAM) provides users with a complete solution to their business activities More...
	25/6/2010 Ezine - Workplaces Shouldn't Ignore The Signs MANY BUSINESSES and other organisations throughout the UK are risking prosecution by not having sufficient safety signs in place despite them being one of the cheapest and easiest ways of preventing workplace accidents. More...
	25/6/2010 Ezine - Schaeffler Successfully Replaces 26-tonne Main Reel Bearings On Pipelay Vessel Schaeffler (UK) Ltd has successfully completed the replacement of two, six-tonne main pipe reel bearings on one of Technip’s longest-serving pipelay vessels, the Apache. More...
	25/6/2010 Ezine - £2.4 Billion Capital Trapped in UK Manufacturing Industry Alternative financing tools to improve competitiveness and accelerate efficiency A new report from Siemens Financial Services (SFS) has identified £2.4bn (€2.7bn) of capital currently ‘frozen’ (inefficiently deployed or untapped liquidity potential that could be freed up) in the UK industry. More...
	25/6/2010 Ezine - Frazer-Nash Supports Students On Engineering Education Scheme Engineering consultancy Frazer-Nash has teamed up with sixth form students from Beacon Community College in East Sussex to design and manufacture a mechanical kayak stroke simulator, which could help improve the performance of the UK’s sprint kayaking athletes. More...
	25/6/2010 Ezine - Custom Service & Maintenance Equipment for Hazardous Areas Improves Efficiency.... The servicing and maintenance of electrical equipment in hazardous areas can be time-consuming and costly, particularly if engineers are not provided with the right tools to carry out the job quickly and safely. Custom designed equipment is now available to assist, says Gordon Low of Cooper Crouse-Hinds. More...
	25/6/2010 Ezine - Lack of Funds and IT Resource Are No Barriers To CMMS Adoption and Use Pirana On-Tap(TM) is Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). It’s the ultimately affordable, zero-hassle solution to your computerised maintenance management needs More...
	24/6/2010 Ezine - PVL Launches Corrosion-Resistant, 'All-Plastic' Level and Flow Switches NEW to the UK, and exclusively available from Pressure Vacuum Level is a comprehensive and unique range of ‘all-plastic’ level and flow switches. More...
	24/6/2010 Ezine - EcoCooling Provides 90% Energy Savings Compared To Traditional Air Conditioning EcoCooling Ltd is the UKs leading provider of evaporative coolers. Specially designed for the UK and European market EcoCoolers can offer energy savings of over 90% compared to traditional air conditioning systems with comparable if not cheaper installation costs. More...

Journal
	29/5/2013 Risk and Accountability in Utility Network Contracts - A Case Study in the Water Industry This case study will examine the practicalities of applying NEC contracts to water supply networks, including a structured approach to identifying activities, development of resource and financial plans, and the application of key performance indicators (KPIs). More...
	29/5/2013 Risk and Accountability in Utility Network Contracts The gas, water and electricity utilities have remained consistent since privatisation about their approach to outsourcing. In general, operation and maintenance of process facilities has remained a core activity. However, maintenance and repair of infrastructure networks has been contracted out. More...
	29/5/2013 Balancing - Using Your Mobile Phone Unbalance is one of the most common causes of high vibration in machines. If the largest vibration component in the spectrum is at 1× (i.e. at the frequency corresponding to rotation speed) then unbalance is the likely cause. Balancing is therefore a regular maintenance activity in many workplaces. Ray Beebe explains a method that has been successfully used on rotors large and small, with the only instrumentation required for balancing being the stopwatch feature of a mobile phone. More...
	28/3/2013 Maintenance & Asset Management Journal Without doubt, one of the hot issues in the UK and the rest of Europe at the present time is the integrity and quality (and, by implication, the safety) of food: in particular, of the greater part of it which, these days, arrives on our tables via long and complex chains of processing , packaging and transport. More...
	25/3/2013 FMEHA: A Useful Technique For Designing Food Safety and Equipment Reliability In food packaging, the original quality of the food needs to be maintained during its shelf life. If the process of pasteurizing or sterilizing the initial product, and then packing and transporting it, is not reliable, food safety can be heavily compromised. More...
	5/3/2013 Glass: Low Maintenance Fit and Forget? The inexorable processes of weathering and air pollution eventually diminish the sparkle and translucency of new glass. The author explains how this occurs and discusses the effectiveness, in preventing it, firstly of recent (and so-called) ‘self-cleaning’ nano-technological treatments, and then of polymer coatings, which have been in use for over thirty years. More...
	28/1/2013 Maintenance & Asset Management Journal It is an unusual issue of our Journal which doesn’t contain a piece on one or another of the many techniques, long established or up and coming, of plant Condition Monitoring and on their corollary, Predictive Maintenance. And this issue is no exception... More...
	28/1/2013 Top Five Maintenance & Reliability Enablers For Improved Operational Performance Surrounding yourself, your projects, and your initiatives with positive enablers leads to success. However, many improvement initiatives focus on the benefits they can provide, such as cost savings and improved productivity, but overlook the importance of discussing and identifying the enablers that must be in place to achieve the projected benefits. More...
	28/1/2013 Back to Basics: How To Save More Money With Condition Monitoring Some dramatic claims have been made about the level of expected returns from Condition Based Maintenance, with figures ranging from 5:1 to 20:1. In reality the experience is less dramatic, with many organisations making returns of less than 2:1. Nevertheless some organisations do achieve the significantly higher levels of savings promised. This paper will examine the key strategies that distinguish the best from the rest and serves as a checklist for the busy maintenance manager wanting to get the most out of the squeezed maintenance budget. More...
	28/11/2012 Are You Being Ruined By Best Efforts? Many companies find that the efforts put into adopting maintenance and asset management best practices do not necessarily deliver against expectations. In the light of an illustrative case study some of the reasons for this are identified and discussed - in particular those arising from the adoption of condition based maintenance strategies, from work identification, from work management and from defect elimination. More...
	28/11/2012 Maintenance & Asset Management Journal I have said before (I think) that it was Rudyard Kipling, he of Mowgli and 'The Jungle Book', who suggested (poetically, in one of his 'Just So' stories for the young) that to solve most of life's problems we should address his 'six honest serving men' whose names 'are WHAT and WHY and WHEN, and HOW and WHERE and WHO' - and that this is as good a starting point as any for unravelling the complexities of developing a strategy for managing maintenance in any enterprise. More...
	28/11/2012 The Partnering Transition From Projects To Operations Partnering has been used for the past two decades to describe collaborative working arrangements between clients and suppliers. It was originally established in the early 1990s when Sir Michael Latham was commissioned by the then Tory Government to improve the contractual arrangements of the UK construction industry, following high profile capital contract difficulties with projects such as the Channel Tunnel. More...
	24/9/2012 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword There is surely no doubt that the proper provision of spare parts and materials - their correct identification, ordering, adequacy of stocking , etc. - is a key function of maintenance management, but looking back over more than twenty years of editing our journal, I can recall running hardly any material on this topic. More...
	24/9/2012 Spur Gear Pump Vibration Assessment Over many years working in the fields of rotating machinery and analysing Noise and Vibration issues it is still surprising to see that the issue of gear pump vibration comes up over and over again. More...
	24/9/2012 Six Tips to Improve Spare Parts Management Spare parts are the lifeblood of operational reliability and plant capacity. No plant can operate at a high level of output without a reliable supply of functional spare parts. Spare parts form the bedrock on which operational reliability is built and this requires appropriate storage, treatment of, and timely access to the required parts. Yet, spare parts are also the most overlooked contributor to reliability outcomes. More...
	20/7/2012 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword This month, our two articles have a theme in common: tasks and problems in the maintenance of electrical plant - heavy electrical, that is (to use an old fashioned term, for power and distribution plant and the like). More...
	20/7/2012 The Heat of the Moment! The Complex Hazard of Electric Arc Flash Explained Electric arc flash and the considerable hazard it presents to personnel working on, or near to, live electrical equipment, are explained, as are the recommended measures that need to be taken to eliminate or minimize this risk and hence to ensure safety and compliance with the law. More...
	10/7/2012 Effective Condition Assessment Of Medium Voltage Switchgear There is a general trend within electricity distribution companies and operators of large private electricity networks to extend maintenance periods for medium voltage (MV) switchgear. More...
	29/5/2012 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword If there is one topic that has been aired more often than any other in these pages, ever since our journal was launched some twenty six years ago, it must surely be the detection, measurement, analysis and interpretation of plant vibration. More...
	28/5/2012 Control Of Building Vibration With Dynamic Absorber High beating vibration was evident in the structure of a large (350MWe lignite) boiler structure and the associated buildings. Although the amplitude was well below that considered to be unacceptable for machines for their integrity, the level increased to became high enough to be annoying to workers in the vicinity. More...
	28/5/2012 The Bhopal Disaster - Learning From Failures And Evaluating Risk The economic, technological and organizational errors attributable to the root causes of the Bhopal disaster of the 2nd and 3rd of December 1984 are identified. In particular, the technical causes of the failure from a design and operational perspective are highlighted. An investigation is then carried out to determine the major consequences of the failure. More...
	29/3/2012 Designing Food Product Safety Through an Effective Implementation of Maintenance Engineering Too often, long life food products show quality or safety problems that are a function of equipment reliability. In the food industry, the raw product must be sterilized and then packed in a sterile environment if quality and contamination problems are to be avoided throughout its whole shelf life. The equipment used to sterilize food products, and to form, seal, cut, and transport the packages or containers must be subjected to regular maintenance activities determined by the criticalities identified in the maintenance design phase. More...
	29/3/2012 Investigation of the Failure of an Alternator Rotor Shaft Driven by a Reciprocating Gas Engine An investigation of repeated failures of an alternator rotor drive shaft is reported. Among other things it is shown that torsional vibration was the major factor in the cause of these breakdowns and that comparison of analytical prediction of such vibration with its careful monitoring can be a valuable aid in deciding how to prevent recurrence of the problem. More...
	29/3/2012 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword Two contrasting items this month: (i) an engineering case study in which Hamid Malaki describes why torsional vibration was the principal cause of repeated failures of a generator drive shaft and how a combination of analytical prediction and careful monitoring indicated the actions which prevented recurrence of the problem; (ii) a definitive review by Sauro Ricetti (a sequel to his January 2011 paper) of the managerial framework for designing, implementing and controlling an equipment maintenance programme of the necessary effectiveness if - in the food industry - vital product safety and quality are to be achieved. More...
	25/1/2012 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword In this issue, Michael Dixey and John Gallimore review the purpose, failure modes, and management of those ubiquitous features of the modern world, protective systems. More...
	25/1/2012 ENERGY ANALYSIS: HOW IT SAVED JOBS AT AUSTIN ENERGY It is explained how the application of an Energy Analysis Module to a study of the factors affecting the efficiency and choice of options for upgrading the motors essential to the operations of a city-owned power utility resulted not only in significant reduction in costs but also a reduction in energy consumption and in the utility's carbon footprint, an important contribution to the city's green energy programme. More...
	25/1/2012 THE RELIABILITY OF PROTECTIVE SYSTEMS Within the home and across a broad range of industries, society has become increasingly dependent on protective systems. These range from simple smoke detectors at home to complex systems on industrial plant which will shut down the equipment if there is a serious malfunction. The authors examine how these systems can fail to protect, the causes and prevention of such failures, and ways in which their reliability can be optimised. More...
	30/11/2011 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword The historical development of best maintenance practice can be simplistically described as an overlapping sequence of four principal phases, viz. corrective (pre-1960), planned preventive (1950-1970), predictive (1960-) and strategic (1970-) – the quoted dates being necessarily very approximate. More...
	25/11/2011 Electric Motor Testing...The Missing Link of Condition Monitoring? It is argued that condition monitoring of electric motors should involve not only testing for such things as bearing failure - via vibration analysis, oil analysis and so forth - but also a structured testing regime for electrical faults and the monitoring of motor efficiency. More...
	25/11/2011 Reliability-Centred Maintenance and HAZOP - is there a need for both? Hazard and operability (HAZOP) analysis is a widely used procedure for the systematic evaluation of industrial hazards, particularly those of the process industries, where it originated. More...
	5/11/2011 An Approach to World Class Asset Management A comprehensive review is presented of the development concepts and practice of ‘World Class Asset Management’, the modern approach in which maintenance is seen not, as formerly, as a hygiene function but as a source of competitive advantage to be exploited via the application of IT-dependent business metrics. More...
	5/11/2011 Maintenance Education for Professionals Recently, the maintenance community has seen huge steps in standardisation and recognition of technician-level training. More...
	5/11/2011 TPM Implementation: The P5 Critical Success Factors for Sustaining Improvement A case study is presented of the implementation of TPM activities at an iron foundry. More...
	5/11/2011 Utilising Benchmark Metrics to Build and Manage a Strategy for Maintenance Improvement The benefits and challenges of using benchmark indices and metrics for monitoring maintenance performance are discussed, with particular reference to prEN 15341, the recently drafted European standard on maintenance key performance indicators. More...
	5/11/2011 Cost-Effective Condition-Based Maintenance It is emphasised that evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of any condition-based maintenance programme must take into account all the relevant constraints and strategic opportunities. More...
	5/11/2011 Maintenance Management: Past, Present and Future - Part 1 In the past, the field of maintenance was often neglected, many organisations not giving due importance to it, the function or department being pushed to the backyard of the factory. Top management too often viewed maintenance as a cost centre, while the operations department viewed it as a function that hindered their productivity More...
	5/11/2011 Thinkers and Doers: A Case Study in Changing a Maintenance and Engineering Organisation A large process plant was organised into three separate departments, viz. maintenance, engineering and production. Roles and responsibilities were unclear, with increasing potential for overlap. A major programme of plant modifications had been justified and, when two new members joined the management team, became the catalyst for change More...
	5/11/2011 Asset Management - An Insurance Perspective The global insurance industry is vitally interested in the asset management systems that are implemented at industrial sites. While these systems are usually implemented to protect and manage plant and equipment, often the impact of these systems on the corporate financial model is overlooked. More...
	5/11/2011 An Introduction t the US Naval Air System Command RCM Process and Integrated RCM Software This paper is an update to ‘RCM in the Public Domain: An Overview of the US Naval Air System’ presented at RCM-2005. It provides an overview of the NAVAIR RCM process along with an indepth demonstration of the Integrated RCM Systems (IRCMS) software. More...
	4/11/2011 Maintenance, In-House or Outsource? But that is the question? A new business model, applicable to the operation and maintenance of the aboveground assets of the UK’s water industry, is proposed. It takes a wider approach than merely reducing operating costs, focusing more on delivering both operational and capital expenditure efficiency More...
	4/11/2011 Maintenance Development Based on the Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Tasks Optimised decision making in maintenance programme development can lead to higher profitability. Within a VTT project, procedures have been developed for maintenance programme development and cost-effectiveness evaluation. More...
	4/11/2011 Delivering Maintenance Through People More...
	4/11/2011 Some Thoughts on Maintenance Budgeting The central importance of budgeting to the formulation of maintenance strategy is stressed and it is explained, by reference to real case examples, that the maintenance budget should be an expression of the forecasted short term and long term workloads in terms of cost of internal labour, contract labour and the materials needed to deal with them. More...
	4/11/2011 Maintenance Training using CAD and a Virtual Reality Environment An investigate has been undertaken of the effectiveness, for maintenance training, of Computer Aided Design and Virtual Reality environments. Three sets of young engineers were trained to undertake a prescribed maintenance task, one set was trained using CAD, one with VR and the third using written instruction manuals. More...
	4/11/2011 Reliability Tools That Can Deliver Improved Plant or Equipment Performances The need for good data collection is emphasised, and examples are provided of the types of analysis that can be carried out beneficially using low cost software tools for (a) Life Data Weibull Analysis, (b) Systems Reliability Assessment using Reliability Block or Fault Tree Diagrams, and (c) Reliability Growth Analysis. More...
	4/11/2011 Generating Failure Codes for CMMS Implementation One of the most important parts of Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) implementation is the generation of failure codes for the craftsmen to record. Picking good codes means that you will have information that is useful for continuous improvement activities. More...
	4/11/2011 What is the Secret of Successful Outsourcing Outsourcing does not always yield the economic benefits originally anticipated. Merely attempting to off-load management problems (reactive outsourcing) can only backfire. More...
	4/11/2011 Achieving World Class Asset Management Performance The author has developed an asset management methodology based on his own experience and knowledge gained from implementing maintenance improvement programmes. More...
	3/11/2011 Getting root cause analysis to work for you Advice is provided about making the most of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) in order to progressively eliminate failures. More...
	3/11/2011 Strategic Advantages: Responsible Outsourcing in the New Asset Management Environment Outsourcing, by reducing direct costs and accessing specialist services, has enabled companies to become more competitive More...
	3/11/2011 Methods for in-service diagnostics of motor-operated valves A portable system for non-invasive, in-service monitoring of motor operated valves has been built, tested and then demonstrated in plant environments. More...
	3/11/2011 Ahead of theGame A very full account is given of the measures adopted to transform the maintenance culture at a manufacturing plant, from one which was largely reactive – dominated by corrective work – to one which is largely proactive and FMECA-driven, in which the workload is well-controlled via a rationalised planned maintenance programme. More...
	3/11/2011 Lean TPM, a game of two halves Delivering long-term improvement in business performance is, in the words of the old football cliché, a game of two halves, viz (I) stabilisation or breaking out of firefighting, and (ii) optimisation, or securing the recipe for long-term growth. More...
	3/11/2011 The Strategic Importance of Asset Management Attention is drawn firstly to some of the dramatic incidents that have occurred in the field of asset management during the last eighteen months, then to some of their more immediate consequences, and finally to the ramifications of changing societal attitudes towards the failure of physical assets. More...
	3/11/2011 Live Condition Based Monitoring An aggregates company was experiencing premature failure of the bearings of its vibratory plant. More...
	3/11/2011 The Do's and Don'ts of Maintenance Teams More...
	3/11/2011 Downtime priorities, jack-knife diagrams and the business cycle Pareto histograms are commonly used to determine maintenance priorities by ranking equipment failure codes according to their relative downtime contribution. More...
	3/11/2011 MCM: An inexpensive condition monitoring technology, simple-to-use and model-based An award-winning product – Motor Condition Monitor (MCM) –is described More...
	2/11/2011 Condition Monitoring of Fossil-Fuelled Boilers Condition monitoring is often seen as applicable only to rotating plant. Stationary plant gets relatively little attention, yet the monitoring of their condition is a vital part of managing these assets More...
	1/11/2011 Maintenance Co-operative Agreements to Reflect Technical Change and the Need for Flexibility Skills A pilot research project, conducted under the EU’s Leonardo da Vinci programme, has been aimed at developing and certificating (via linked national and European arrangements) work-based training modules for advancing flexible working in small to medium enterprises, and developing the criteria necessary for formulating successful co-operative agreements in this area. More...
	4/10/2011 Can I Be Bothered With Taking On An Apprentice? The companies, both big and small, that choose to take on an apprentice do so in partnership with a College or Group Training Association so as to manage the government funding and the administration, as well as to teach, train and assess the competence of the candidates, and thus take away a huge amount of the complication. More...
	4/10/2011 Managing Risk in Device Engineering Traditionally, maintenance services for medical equipment have concentrated on Planned Preventive (PPM) and Corrective Action (CA) policies. Here, the rationale is presented for adopting, instead, a risk-management-based support programme - one that incorporates the best elements of industrial maintenance practice. Illustrations are presented of its application to devices of various degrees of complexity and criticality. More...
	30/9/2011 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword The summer has now come and with its usual staff shortages at a time when the world economic out look is still poor. Businesses need to keep their production up and downtime down, to maximise profits whilst the exchange rates are favourable. The longer term outlook however is better, and in a very few years most sectors of industry will start to recover and grow. More...
	30/6/2011 Production Data Analysis for Plant Performance Improvement It is shown how daily production data for industrial process plant can be used as an aid in making improvements in plant performance. A spreadsheet based analysis is presented in which a frequency distribution plot is created and performance indicators for the plant are calculated. The indicators include values for the percentage of days with normal, low and zero output, values for the maximum, average overall and average normal-day production and a measure of the variability of production. These indicators help management to focus on suitable approaches to the improvement of performance in operations, maintenance and reliability. The results also form a basis for comparing different plants in terms of production performance. More...
	30/6/2011 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword Debate about the role of universities is rarely out of the headlines just now. More...
	30/6/2011 There's Something In The Air - Part 2: Hear More With Contact Ultrasound The use of ultrasound as a predictive tool has been with us for over thirty five years, but the use – and indeed the understanding – of this technology is still not widespread. This Part 2 article follows on from the exploration of airborne ultrasound applications published in the previous, May/June, issue and explores how, just by changing from an airborne sensor to a contact probe, ultrasonic inspection can be used in mechanical applications such as blockage, leaking or cavitation in valves, internal leaks in cylinders, failure of steam traps, various bearing problems ‒‒ and inspection of electrical equipment. More...
	27/5/2011 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword In mid-April I attended the 19th AR2TS meeting, held this year in Stratford-on-Avon. Held biennially, and originally born out of the activities of the Safety and Reliability Directorate of the old Atomic Energy Authority, the ‘Advances in Risk and Reliability Technology Symposium’ has been promoted since the early 1990s by the IMechE‘s Safety and Reliability Group and the Safety and Reliability Society, and held under the auspices firstly of The University of Manchester and now of The Universities of Loughborough and Nottingham. More...
	20/5/2011 There's Something In The Air - Understanding Ultrasound The use of ultrasound as a predictive tool has been with us for over 35 years, but its use - and, indeed, the understanding of it - is still not widespread. Its basic ideas are explained and a wide range of applications of airborne ultrasound technology described, from gas leak and vacuum leak detection, via electric equipment inspection, to monitoring the condition of belt and chain drives, and bearings. More...
	20/5/2011 Realising The Benefits of Condition Monitoring A predictive and proactive maintenance strategy, centred on vibration monitoring, has effectively eliminated unplanned outages of the rotational machinery in a coking plant. More...
	10/3/2011 Lessons Learnt in 45 Years of Condition Monitoring A series of short case studies in monitoring the condition of power generation plant (pumps, steam turbines, boilers, heat exchangers, etc.) is presented. The examples are drawn from the author’s extensive and authoritative experience in this area, and are intended to entertain, inform and even inspire. The lessons learnt stand forever, but not all are well-known. More...
	10/3/2011 Lifecycle FMECA Lifecycle FMECA is introduced and its application and value discussed. An enhanced version of FMECA that focuses on forward-looking risk-based analysis it develops robust operational and financial profiles of assets as they live through their operate-and-maintain phase. Its real benefit is that it is fundamentally simple and can be automated for all assets with relative ease More...
	10/3/2011 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword If there is one sort of article that, more than any other, we like to publish in these pages it is a good case study, an account of some maintenance-related work, describing the industry involved, the particular problem, its investigation, its solution (usually!), the benefits resulting and the wider lessons to be learned − and reported by the toiler at the coal face himself, the asset manager or engineer. More...
	25/1/2011 A Maintenance Managers Guide to Vibration Analysis and Assoc Techniques in Condition Monitoring - 3 In this the third and final part of this series we shall look at using monitoring information, some of the ‘yardsticks’ available for establishing vibration operating envelopes and a case study that demonstrates vibration analysis in action. More...
	25/1/2011 Product Safety and Equipment Reliability in the Food Industry Through Maintenance Engineering The demands of increasing regulation of food safety are leading the food industry to design and implement maintenance procedures that can bring under control critical variables linked to food safety and equipment reliability. More...
	25/1/2011 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword A love poem by one of the 20th century’s foremost English wordsmiths may seem like a strange place to find a consummate definition of our trade. More...
	18/1/2011 Field Information Systems for Maintenance Management A summary is presented of the findings of the DTI-sponsored ‘Freestyle’ collaborative research project. Up-to-date practical information is provided on the benefits to be gained by using pen-based computers, Field Information Systems (FIS) and Maintenance Management Systems (MMIS). Even if the reader has not yet started on the path to MMIS the information presented should help him to plan with greater insight. More...
	18/1/2011 The Development of a Data Collector for Low-speed Machinery The problems of measuring, in an industrial environment, the low frequency vibration that is generated by low speed machinery are reviewed in some detail. More...
	1/12/2010 An Integrated Maintenance Management Information System for Manufacturing The author believes that the Maintenance Management Information System (MMIS) of the future will be an integral part of the Production Control System within the framework of the Business Integrated System. The thinking behind the outline design of a proposed MMIS for a manufacturing environment is explained. More...
	1/12/2010 Strategic Maintenance Not until senior managers come to regard maintenance as a ‘profit centre’ rather than a ‘cost centre’ will they be able to enjoy the increased profitability that is to be derived from maximising the reliability of their plant. More...
	20/11/2010 A Maintenance Managers Guide to Vibration Analysis and Assoc Techniques in Condition Monitoring - 2 Part 1, published in the previous issue, of this three-part series (aimed at assisting the maintenance manager to become an ‘informed buyer’ of CM techniques supporting a CBM strategy) dealt with the basics of vibration and then explained how the understanding of machine vibration can help us ascertain machine condition. It then described some common frequency-related faults that can help to identify deterioration. More...
	20/11/2010 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword September saw the sad passing of Bob Moss, founder and former MD of RM Consultants. More...
	20/11/2010 TPM - The 'Pinch-Point' Solution For Lean Manufacturing As we emerge from the recession, and its likely decimating effects on the maintenance function, we need to reflect on our current maintenance strategy now, post the streamlining. Is this an opportunity to (finally) get it right? More...
	30/9/2010 A Maintenance Managers Guide to Vibration Analysis and Assoc Techniques in Condition Monitoring - 1 In the late 70s I remember ground running a training aircraft (a Jet Provost Mk 3), with an oscilloscope perched precariously on my knee, taking notes on a range of vibration readings across a range of rpm. It was a scheduled performance check and, as I recall, the procedure called for analysis of the frequency chart generated – with particular attention to gearbox frequencies. More...
	30/9/2010 Mechanical Integrity Assessment of a Large Horizontal NGL Pressure Vessel: Case Study A methodology for assessing the structural integrity of a large horizontal NGL (Natural Gas Liquid) vessel has been developed. The general analysis procedure, stress analysis and remaining useful life evaluation are described. Recommendations for dealing with anomalies detected during assessment are also presented. The methodology employed can be applied to other, similar, pressurised vessels in the oil and gas, chemical and petrochemical plants. More...
	30/9/2010 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword As usual, two topics in this issue, namely Condition Motoring (CM) – in particular, via the measurement of machine vibration – and Risk Based Inspection (RBI), each presented as a primary determinant of maintenance policy. More...
	16/7/2010 Reliability-Centred Maintenance Applied To Military Structures Reliability-centred Maintenance (RCM) has been widely applied in the UK within the Royal Navy and British Army. However, the Defence Standard Def Stan 02-45 used on those military studies does not adequately address monocoque structure where no alternative load paths exist. More...
	16/7/2010 The Emerging Problem of Lubricant Varnish Lubricating oils are undergoing more changes today than at any time in recent memory. This has been driven by the switch to more advanced base stocks which require new additive chemistries, along with increased equipment performance duties and extreme lubricant operating conditions. More...
	15/7/2010 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword Two topics in this issue that, if our memory is correct, we have never previously touched on, viz. (a) the problem of lubricant varnish, the deposition – in performance-critical parts of machinery – of the products of oil degradation, which can cause reduced performance or even failure, and (b) the application of Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), not to plant, processes and systems – about which we have published any number of reviews, case studies and critiques (probably more, in fact, than on any other matter) – but to structures. More...
	28/5/2010 Maintenance Outsourcing: A Step Towards Product Service Systems Intense competition in the current global business environment and the need to increase profit have caused companies to seek competitive advantage through the provision of services. In this new service-oriented world companies are providing integrated 'Product-Service Systems' instead of selling only tangible products. More...
	28/5/2010 Locomotive Diesel Engine Stress Wave Analysis Stress Wave Analysis has been introduced for monitoring impact-like events and has proved effective for identifying bearing and gear defects. Here, after briefly explaining the basic concept, the author demonstrates the use of the technique for investigating typical defects encountered with diesel engines. More...
	25/5/2010 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword In his Just So Stories, a collection of tales for children, Rudyard Kipling (poet of Empire, author of The Jungle Books,the first English language winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and, incidentally, an enthusiast for engineers and their works) wrote ... More...
	31/3/2010 CAFM Technology Computer Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) evolved in the late 1980s and has become an essential business tool, relied on by many Facilities and Estates departments. CAFM Solutions offer distinct benefits in the management of day-to-day operations and performance monitoring. With its reach now extending to Hospitality, IT departments and beyond, the role of CAFM becomes a much more prominent business solution and raises the profile and value of Facilities and Estates departments. More...
	26/3/2010 Performance Indicators - What You Need To Know.... Business-led, results-orientated maintenance management is driven by Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), also known as measures or metrics. There are two types of indicators – lagging and leading. Success as an engineering manager depends on understanding the basic nature and use of each type - together with a resolute bias for action. More...
	26/3/2010 The Role of Vibration Monitoring In Predictive Maintenance Part 2: Some Illustrative Examples In the first part (published in the previous issue of M&AM) of this comprehensive review of the role of vibration monitoring in maintenance, the author discussed the importance of identifying asset criticality and justifying the economics of a CM programme, and also the basic principles and techniques of monitoring the vibration of bearings in rotating machinery. In this second and concluding part he presents examples of the successful application of these techniques to a wide range of industrial plant. More...
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	30/1/2010 The Role of Vibration Monitoring In Predictive Maintenance Unexpected equipment failures can be expensive and potentially catastrophic, resulting in unplanned production downtime, costly replacement of parts and safety and environmental concerns. More...
	30/1/2010 Going Back To Basics - Using Vibration Time Waveform Data 'The most difficult function for any routine CBM programme – is finding a fault!' More...
	30/1/2010 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword No matter what strategic philosophy is adopted in the quest for more cost-effective maintenance there would seem to be one outcome – the introduction of more condition monitoring (CM) – that is all but inevitable. More...
	30/11/2009 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword We are about to enter the last year of the decade known as the ‘noughties’, a change that, as usual, will be rung in by one of Britain’s true icons: Big Ben, the bell of the towering timepiece, the Great Clock at Westminster, that features in everything from the HP sauce logo to the opening titles of ‘News at Ten’. More...
	30/11/2009 The Restoration Work On The Great Clock at Westminster Heritage items need special consideration when maintenance is involved, and none more so than Big Ben (or the Great Clock at Westminster to give its proper name), the icon of the British Nation. More...
	30/11/2009 Diagnosing Machine Bearing Faults Several of the techniques employed in vibration-based condition monitoring of bearings are discussed, and the differences between them explained. Some observations on their relative usefulness, and on their implementation, are also included. More...
	28/9/2009 Condition Monitoring of Steam Turbines By Performance Analysis Many power generation steam turbine generators today are required in service well beyond their intended lifetimes. Dismantling for inspection is expensive, and owners need to consider all relevant information in making the decision. More...
	28/9/2009 Benchmarking Best Practice: Towards A Total Reliability & Maintenance Management Award Evidence is provided of the importance of maintenance and reliability, and the current status of reliability and maintenance (R&M) practice is reviewed, in terms of the gaps between the advances in technology and the evolution of the R&M techniques. More...
	28/9/2009 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword Over more years than I care to think about the reliability engineering community has debated how it might raise the status of its subject, how it might increase the awareness, in industry in particular and in society in general, of the critical contribution that the discipline could make to a successful economy and a clean, safe, environment. More...
	10/7/2009 Case Study: Protection Of Hydraulic Equipment and Potential Extension of Unit Life...... Hydraulic equipment is ubiquitous in both manufacturing industry and construction. Indeed, as staff numbers em––ployed in engineering have declined numbers of hydraulic power packs and hydraulically operated equipment seem to have increased. More...
	10/7/2009 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword Most accounts of thve progress of ideas in maintenance management suggest that ‘best practice’ in this field has evolved through something like four overlapping historical phases, the nature of each determined by the technology and work culture of its time. More...
	10/7/2009 Turning Maintenance Into An Asset Bonar Floors, soon to be re-branded to Forbo Flooring following its acquisition in 2008, has been manufacturing Flotex flooring products for over thirty years at its site in Ripley, Derbyshire. More...
	20/5/2009 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword It has been my long held view that no matter which approach is pursued – Reliability Centred, Risk Based Inspection, Total Productive, Lean, Business Centred, Value Driven, even good old Trial and Error – in order to determine a maintenance strategy, it is mostly the case that sooner or later (sooner with the more analytical approaches, later with the more pragmatic ones, which need more time) much , if not most, of the work must become condition-driven, i.e. ‘If it ain’t broke, or nearly broke, don’t fix it’. More...
	20/5/2009 What Is DFE (Dynamic Filter Efficiency)? All hydraulic and lube systems have a critical contamination tolerance level that is often defined by, but not limited to, the most sensitive system components such as servo valves or high speed journal bearings. More...
	20/5/2009 On-Line Motor Current Signature Analysis Prevents Premature Failure of Large..... Motor Current Signature Analysis (MCSA) is a condition monitoring technique used to diagnose problems in three- phase induction motors that drive pumps and compressors in the North Sea oil and gas industry. More...
	30/3/2009 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword Our last two issues – the first of this year and the last of 2008 – were devoted almost solely to condition monitoring techniques (particularly as applied to rotating machinery). More...
	30/3/2009 Motivating maintenance craftsmen - do we know what we're doing? Do we really understand what makes maintenance craftsmen tick? After spending over thirty years working with them in a variety of industries and market sectors I have come to the conclusion that the answer is ‘No, not really’. More...
	30/3/2009 Managing and supporting ship availability The method used within the authors’ company involved linking together basic functional design tasks to create a process that could be applied by each ship engineering department in a controlled, repeatable and consistent manner. More...
	28/1/2009 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword Call it by a high-sounding name if you must – Terotechnology, Physical Asset Management – but there is no doubt that there are few more down-to-earth tasks than Maintenance. Coping with ‘the tyranny of things’ *, their fragilities, complexities, uncertainties and sometimes downright cussedness (not to mention the vagaries of the people involved), it usually calls for knowledge and judgement that can only be acquired through service in the workplace and not through the textbook or lecture room. More...
	28/1/2009 Healthcare & Maintenance There are many similarities between the prevention of illness in humans, and the prevention of failures in equipment. The history of healthcare is examined through the prism of the maintenance engineer, and commonalities are identified which provide some food for thought. More...
	28/1/2009 Turbo-Machinery Tip-Timing Comes of Age The complexity of a gas turbine makes its maintenance something of a black art. However, the advent of non-contact tip-timing systems has made it possible to assess turbine blade health and implement condition-based predictive maintenance routines. More...
	1/12/2008 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword This end-of-year issue focuses on one particular maintenance support technique: the monitoring of rolling bearing condition by measuring and analysing vibration. More...
	1/12/2008 Measuring Shock Pulse, Another approach to front line condition monitoring Condition monitoring should always start with a list of machine faults, specific for each machine. More...
	1/12/2008 An Overview of Bearing Vibration Analysis Rolling contact bearings are used in almost every type of rotating machinery whose successful and reliable operation is very dependent on the type of bearing selected as well as the precision of all associated components, i.e. shaft, housing, spacers, nuts etc. Bearing engineers generally use fatigue as the normal failure mode, on the assumption that the bearings are properly installed, operated and maintained. Today, because of improvements in manufacturing technology and materials, it is generally the case that bearing fatigue life, which is related to sub-surface stresses, is not the limiting factor and probably accounts for less than 3% of failures in service. Unfortunately though, many bearings fail prematurely in service because of contamination, poor lubrication, temperature extremes, poor fitting/fits, unbalance and misalignment. More...
	29/9/2008 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword As a general rule our aim with M&AM is to speak directly to the problems and needs of those who, day in and day out, actually organise and carry out the maintenance of physical assets of all kinds. More...
	29/9/2008 Developing a Maintenance Strategy and Setting Performance Targets Cost Effective Maintenance Management is a goal for many companies. More...
	29/9/2008 Experience with Education in Maintenance and Reliability Engineering by off Campus Learning Physical plant assets are tending to remain in service for beyond their design lifetime. More...
	14/7/2008 What is Predictive Maintenance? A case study is presented of the benefits to be derived from the implementation of a ‘functional predictive maintenance programme’. Many examples of its application in practice at the author’s coal-fired power plant are presented. More...
	14/7/2008 Budgeting for Reliable Operations Setting maintenance budgets for new plant and equipment is a challenge often met by using past experience. The mining company, which is the subject of this study, purchased an existing plant from a contract service provider. However, the existing budgets were not useful as a guide because the new owners wanted to use a different asset management philosophy. Historically, the plant had been maintained when a problem was reported. More...
	14/7/2008 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword For more years than I care to remember I have been presenting courses, to graduate level engineers working in every sort of production and service industry, on the ideas and techniques of what has come to be known as Reliability Engineering, and on their application to the problems of maintenance management. More...
	31/5/2008 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword There can be very few in the industrial maintenance fraternity who would not agree that pro-active maintenance of plant, or its dominant sub-set, condition based maintenance, will nearly always turn out to be the economically optimum policy – an RCM analysis, for example, has a built-in tendency to preferentially direct the planner towards such an approach. More...
	31/5/2008 Slow Speed Bearing Analysis Monitoring in the Grey Zone More...
	31/5/2008 Experiences in Pump Condition Monitoring by Performance Analysis More...
	7/4/2008 A Mobile Maintenance Decision Support System The development is reported of an e-maintenance system, ie a mobile maintenance decision support system based on web and mobile technologies. The problem of the lack of experts to troubleshoot a fault in a machine is a long-standing one. It has led to the application of artificial intelligence and, later, distributed artificial intelligence for machine condition monitoring and diagnosis. More...
	7/4/2008 Predictive Maintenance by Performance Monitoring of Plant Much is written about the condition monitoring methods of vibration analysis, oil analysis, NDT methods, and electrical plant tests, but very little about performance analysis, i.e. the analysis and monitoring of the physical performance of both rotating and non-rotating plant items as an indicator of their condition. Performance analysis also often enables the optimum time to be found to schedule maintenance to restore lost performance. Based on his many years of experience in fossil fired steam power generation, the author demonstrates – via case studies on pumps, air compressors, steam turbines, mechanical control system components, boilers and heat exchangers – the application of this methodology. More...
	7/4/2008 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword There can be very few in the industrial maintenance fraternity who would not agree that pro-active maintenance of plant, or its dominant sub-set, condition based maintenance, will nearly always turn out to be the economically optimum policy – an RCM analysis, for example, has a built-in tendency to preferentially direct the planner towards such an approach. More...
	28/1/2008 Improving the reliability of a Coal Fired Power Plant using a SAP - REWOP Interface In the search for improved performance of the management of its physical assets, a major Canadian-based power generation company sought to exploit the benefits of good reliability and maintenance information practices. Specifically, they wished to increase the value derived from the investment made in their SAP PM (Systems, Applications and Products: Plant Maintenance) system. By interfacing REWOP (Reliability Engineering Workbench Optimiser) with their SAP work order module, maintenance engineers and technicians can now accurately and easily analyse historical data. This, plus the adoption of a common language for potential and functional failures, is leading to greatly improved maintenance, inspection and decision-making techniques. In turn this is resulting in increased reliability, fewer failures and reduced maintenance costs. More...
	28/1/2008 Maintenance & Asset Management - Editor's Foreword It is with no small sense of loss that we have to record the passing, in its quarterly, standalone format at least, of our specialist, subscription Journal, Maintenance and Asset Management. After twenty two years of waving the flag for what we have hoped has been a more thoughtful (but not too analytical) approach to reporting new ideas, techniques and achievements in the activities indicated by its title we have decided that a change in format is called for. More...
	28/1/2008 Performance Benchmarking Update: Expectations and Reality The authors draw on their extensive experience in the benchmarking of significant aspects of the performance of companies – large and small and world-wide – to highlight not only the striking differences that they have observed in reliability achievement and in maintenance organisation but also the reasons for the clear relationship between these two factors. They conclude that ‘best-of-class companies’ share a large number of sound work practices, reliability engineering implementation concepts, and organisational alignments and list what they see to be the most significant of the reliability and maintenance attributes that are shared by such companies. More...
	21/12/2007 Managing Human Error in Maintenance Numerous research studies have shown that over fifty percent of all equipment fails prematurely after maintenance work has been performed on it. In the most embarrassing cases, the maintenance work performed was intended to prevent the very failures that occurred. Building on the latest academic research, and based on practical experience, this paper outlines the key things that maintenance managers can do to reduce or eliminate the impact of human error in maintenance. More...
	21/12/2007 The Age of the RCM Analyst The publication of the SAE standard resolved much of the debate about the precise nature of RCM. However, the widely adopted team approach to RCM implementation has been subject to criticism on the grounds of its heavy demand on resources and time, leading to the growth of non-compliant, ‘streamlined’, variants of the method, and also of the employment of the ‘sole analyst’ (which introduces its own difficulties). The RCM approach must therefore evolve still further if it is to meet the changing nature of today’s workforce and the impact of information technology. This has created the need for a new category of RCM expert, the RCM Analyst, a highly skilled professional who is part of the leading edge of asset management and who can work across all areas of an implementation to ensure its short-term success as well as its long-term viability. The skills requirement and the role of such an analyst are reviewed. More...
	21/12/2007 Lean TPM Implementation Pursued correctly, Lean TPM can enable the maintenance function within a manufacturing organisation to achieve greater effectiveness and efficiency – and also a more flexible operation better able to respond to growth and technological change. Practical advice is offered on implementing the two initial steps, Stabilisation and Optimisation, of a lean TPM programme. More...
	21/12/2007 The case for more comprehensive data collection and how it might be achieved: Part 2 This paper is about possible methods for the practical application of Terotechnology. It is explained that data analysis is prerequisite to formulating, and later updating, optimal maintenance and plant renewal policies. The nature of optimal maintenance policies in the context of the Life Cycle Profit (LCP) method of Hans Ahlmann is discussed, as are the requirements for applying this method, the most important of which are (i) a better database than most managers of companies are used to, and (ii) better software to analyse the data. More...
	21/12/2007 Constructing an effective maintenance plan Creating a maintenance plan is generally not difficult. But creating a comprehensive maintenance programme that is effective poses some interesting challenges. It would be difficult to appreciate the subtleties of what makes a maintenance plan effective without understanding how the plan forms part of the total maintenance environment. This paper explains some of the key concepts – the maintenance information loop, RCM analysis, workload smoothing, long and short term scheduling, etc. – that make the difference between an ordinary maintenance plan and a good, effective, maintenance programme. More...
	20/12/2007 Improved Maintenance Reliability It is emphasised that monitoring the condition of a machine is not untaken to reveal interesting problems but to determine whether it continues to be fit for purpose, and that progress in this area is to use methods that will foster cooperation between operations and Maintenance. More...
	20/12/2007 Is your control room data telling you what you think it is? The investigation and diagnosis of plant problems is a central part of the maintenance engineering function. The techniques used often relate closely to those used in condition monitoring and can similarly require dedicated instruments or special instrument arrangements. More...
	20/12/2007 The Partnership Organisation The differences between service focused organisations and those based on partnership work systems are reviewed and the superior benefits of the latter are outlined. It is advised that the first step in creating a partnership system is to get Operations and Maintenance to agree on a joint mission statement for the production organisation. More...
	20/12/2007 Maintenance Management: Past, Present and Future - Part 2 In Part 1 of this paper an overview of the traditional maintenance systems was provided and the concepts of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and World-class Maintenance Systems (WMS) were introduced. But due importance was not given for either TPM or WMS. Hence in this part of our paper emphasis is given to TPM as it is currently being pursued in many industries worldwide. More...
	13/12/2007 An empirical study of the utilisation, in troubleshooting, of failure records Part II In Part I of this paper (see Issue 20.1) a support documentation system (SDS) was proposed – a system which, by optimising the management of maintenance documentation, could provide a better aid to maintenance teachnicians during troubleshooting. Here, in Part II, the results are presented of a survey of the current state of utilisation of maintenance information systems – involving a multi-case study of their use by maintenance practitioners and interviews with both equipment vendors and maintenance experts. This has demonstrated the feasibility of creating and implementing such a system, the case study results showing that current maintenance information systems are not efficiently assisting troubleshooting. In addition, some practitioners’ suggestions are presented, for optimising the management of maintenance documentation. More...
	13/12/2007 Benchmarking with the VDM Control Centre With the introduction of the VDM Control Centre, Mark Haarman of Mainnovation recently launched an easy-access tool for effective application of Value Driven Maintenance (VDM). This on-line platform allows maintenance managers, in a company of any size, great or small, to measure and benchmark their maintenance performance against that of anonymous companies in the same industry. It also provides a transparent picture of the contribution that their maintenance organisation is making to creating value for their company. This article looks at these developments. More...
	13/12/2007 The case for more comprehensive data collection and how it might be achieved: Part 1 This paper is about possible methods for the practical application of Terotechnology. It is explained that data analysis is prerequisite to formulating, and later updating, optimal maintenance and plant renewal policies. The nature of optimal maintenance policies in the context of the Life Cycle Profit (LCP) method of Hans Ahlmann is discussed, as are the requirements for applying this method, the most important of which are (i) a better database than most managers of companies are used to, and (ii) better software to analyse the data. It is explained that, for productive systems, the long-term costs involved in data collection to permit full realisation of LCP are unlikely to exceed the long-term benefits of a management policy based upon Total Quality Manufacturing and LCP rather than Management by Objectives and Reliability Centred Maintenance, this being particularly so if data requirements for the firm are integrated. More...
	13/12/2007 Applying PMBOK to Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages Turnarounds have a distinctive character of their own and cannot be managed as if they were just another sort of ‘Engineering, Procurement and Construction’ (EPC) project; a ‘turnaround-specific’ methodology of management is needed. Drawing on the philosophy of the Project Management Institute’s Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) the author reviews the special problems presented by process plant turnarounds and also their particular management needs. More...
	13/12/2007 What Else Can I Inspect? It is shown that infrared thermography offers an exceptionally useful tool for diagnosing operating problems over a very wide range of plant and equipment in many very different industries – and that today’s thermographic tools are not only highly portable and easy mto use, but are also of remarkably high accuracy and optical resolution. It is also stressed that their ability to offer early warning of impending problems offers a rapid return on investment. More...
	13/12/2007 Maintenance at Hydro Polymers Ltd The aim of this paper is to show how we, at Hydro Polymers, reviewed our maintenance systems to reduce costs, but at the same time maintained plant availability and safety.We identified a need to benchmark our existing performance against that of similar industries, not only as regards costs but also as regards maintenance Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) – but we did not have any ‘Maintenance KPIs’, only costs, and these were at a very high level. The decision to review our maintenance areas coincided with a major cost benchmarking exercise carried out across the PVC industry, and we had also just installed a new Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS). More...
	13/12/2007 What do you need to know about software maintenance? Software now accounts for an increasing share of the content of modern plant and equipment, and, like these last, must be maintained to ensure its continued operational efficiency. Although the maintenance of plant is discussed extensively, very little is published about software maintenance and how it affects us. This paper presents an overview of key topics of software engineering maintenance. More...
	13/12/2007 Lean TPM: A bluepint for change One of the fundamental principles of continuous improvement is that it is continuous. Is this really necessary? Surely when something broken is fixed, or bottlenecks are removed, that’s the end to it! Not so, say the authors of the new book, ‘Lean TPM’. More...
	13/12/2007 Automated Trouble Shooting Automated trouble shooting of problems with plant or products, using diagnostic software that may be on site or may be accessed remotely via the internet, can be highly cost-effective. It is explained that while many diagnostic engines are case-based, relying on learning from prior case history, which carries inherent limitations, a more sophisticated system – which also employs model-based reasoning (as developed and marketed by the author’s company) and in which the integrated method of diagnostic decision-making closely resembles the human thinking process – can be much more efficient. The logic of such a system, its capabilities, the benefits it can bring and the extent of its current industrial application are reviewed. More...
	13/12/2007 Three into One does go To speed up its response to sales demands a company making office equipment concentrated all its operations on a single site, having previously had its activities distributed over three locations. It also decided that, in parallel with this move, it would replaced its outdated and inadequate paperwork systems for controlling maintenance with a Computerised Maintenance Management System. The author describes how he brought this change about, stressing the value of careful preparation for the transition and the benefits that are now being achieved. More...
	13/12/2007 Improved CMMS and Asset Management Systems - But do they lead to success? IMPROVED CMMS AND ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) evolved in 70’s and 80’s as a means of managing maintenance activities. In particular they were created to help manage all aspects of managing, planning, controlling, requesting, recording, reporting, and analysing maintenance activities. More...
	10/12/2007 Too small for a CMMS? Think again Many smaller companies feel that, for them, the acquisition of maintenance management software would be overkill. The author explains (a) why he believes that nothing could be further from the truth and (b) the basic steps to be taken, by a small company, for the beneficial implementation of a CMMS. More...
	10/12/2007 Equipment readiness and visibility using Honeycomb maps A new tool, MERIT, that is receiving wide interest both inside and outside the military community, is described. It provides managers with a ‘honeycomb’ visual representation of maintenance performance – along several different performance characteristics, and within several different data hierarchies – and links a visual display with underlying repair cycle detail, indicating equipment level and part number level status, information which can be used to follow-up and focus on particular problems, identify potential solutions, monitor ongoing efforts, and identify responsible persons or organisations. More...
	10/12/2007 Benchmarking Art of Science? Benchmarking is one of today’s hot topics. Governments encourage companies to be benchmarked, consultants sell the service and universities offer courses on the subject. But what exactly is benchmarking? Why do companies use it and what are the benefits? How does the benchmarking process look and how are conclusions drawn? These and related issues are explained, discussed and fully illustrated with real examples drawn from diverse industries. More...
	10/12/2007 An empirical study of the utilisation, in troubleshooting, of failure records Part I Existing studies of downtime reduction have usually been based on the idea of preventing failures. These studies have undoubtedly made a significant contribution towards downtime reduction, although it is impossible to predict and prevent all failures. In this first instalment of a two-part paper it is suggested that an approach to minimising downtime – by reducing troubleshooting time via the analysis of failure records – can be founded on evidence from published literature, evidence which suggests that providing maintainers with easy access to detailed information about previous failure experiences should make troubleshooting quicker. More...
	10/12/2007 Manage your motor systems for increased reliability and decreased cost THE SYSTEMS APPROACH It is a typical day at Acme Manufacturing Corporation, as a 200 horsepower compressor is becoming unreliable and is unable to meet production demands for air. In previous years, Acme would have decided to buy a new compressor, and being a ‘smart’ company they would have decide that, to meet demand, this should be a larger 250 hp unit ! They would purchase the lowest cost compressor to meet their hp needs! This approach is typically known as the ‘first-cost-driven’ approach. Life cycle costs or actual process requirements are not evaluated with this type of approach. Typically, no energy savings are achieved. This time, Acme has done something different. Acme started an active Motor System Management programme, and they now look at optimising the entire motor system when replacing a component of that system. Before deciding how to meet the demand for air, Acme performs an audit of the entire system. More...
	29/11/2007 Infrastructure Management: Have Asset Management Models Compromised Effective Asset Management? Different asset management philosophies and models were developed in the 1990s, but the basic approach to their application has been the same in different market sectors. This approach may provide a long-term focus for managing assets. However, it often fails to recognise the crucial relationship between capital investment associated with maintenance on the one hand, and operational maintenance costs on the other. More...
	10/10/2007 The Effective Management of Contract Maintenance The effective management, within the author’s paper products company, of internal and external maintenance resources, is described – management which is seen as an essential aid to reducing cost. More...
	12/7/2007 Some thougts on Maintenance Budgeting To be successful, any maintenance organisation worthy of the name will function via a number of necessary and inter-related managerial and control systems. In his new book 'Maintenance Systems and Documentation' Tony Kelly identifies those systems, (performance control, work control, documentation, budgeting, costing etc) that are key, showing how each can be mapped and modelled and its function and operating principles explained. As with his other books, the analysis is illustrated throughout by case studies drawn from his wealth of experience, and readers can test their understanding of the lessons to be derived by addressing various review questions. More...
	1/8/2005 What is the Service Level of your CMMS Supplier? (Part 2) Here, in Part 2, the complexity of the Service Level Agreement architecture is explained, as wellas the process that needs to be in place for a successful implementation of an SLA. More...
	1/8/2005 Royal Mail Engineering incorporating maintenance In 2003 Royal Mail (RM) and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) secured a national agreement committing both parties to a review of processing engineer terms and conditions and working practices by March 2005. More...
	1/8/2005 An Audit of the Maintenance Strategy at an Agri-chemical Plant An audit is described of the maintenance strategy at an ammonia plant, an exercise which was just one part of a comprehensive audit of the maintenance management as a whole – of the organisation and systems as well as the strategy, and of all the other process plants on the same site. More...
	1/8/2005 21st Century Maintenance Management using Finite Capacity Planning The day-to-day implementation is described of Maintenance Finite Capacity Planning, a combination of procedures – daily scheduling and comprehensive planning based on engineered standards – aimed at achieving full utilisation of the maintenance work force and continuous skill development. More...
	1/8/2005 The RCM Analyst – beyond RCM It is explained that, built on SAE-compliant RCM, the author's RCM analyst method is centred on the role of its analysts who, when the approach is fully implemented, can induce a focus on knowledge transfer which can transform the way in which a company thinks about, and manages, its physical assets. More...
	1/1/2005 What is the Service Level of your CMMS Supplier? (Part 1) In this first part of this paper – on obtaining better service levels from CMMS suppliers – help is offered in identifying Service Level Agreement conditions which will push CMMS suppliers (whether in-house or under contract) to be more responsive when a failure occurs in their software More...
	1/1/2005 Spend Limits and Asset Management As equipment ages the amount of money that is reasonable to spend on one-off events, such as repair, refurbishment or relocation decreases. More...
	1/1/2005 Reliability Analysis Methods for Mechanical Assemblies during Conceptual Design using CAD A method for the analysis of the reliability of mechanical assemblies during the conceptual design is proposed More...
	1/1/2005 Rethinking Reliability Centred Maintenance. The author discusses how we might reconsider our approach to developing equipment operations and maintenance plans - so that we do so in a way that takes account a broader range of concepts, including lean and systems thinking, while strengthening team ownership and implementation of the resulting actions. More...
	1/10/2004 Sound Lubrication Practices According to most bearing manufacturers over-lubrication is a major cause of bearing failure. More...
	1/10/2004 Risk based Inspections Reducing downtime was a necessity for the competitive profitability of an innovative process plant. More...
	1/10/2004 The New Centre for Advanced Maintenance Training industrial personnel in maintenance techniques, practices and equipment is not an easy task. More...
	1/10/2004 Maintenance Management The author, writing in the light of over forty years experience as a maintenance engineer, both here in the UK and overseas, emphasises the importance of the Maintenance Department and the need for its status – alongside the other departments in the company or organisation – to be fully acknowledged, the latter being achieve via full communication with those departments and good presentation of the Maintenance Department’s activities. More...
	1/10/2004 Value Driven Maintenance What is actually the added value of maintenance? is a frequently heard question in boardrooms the world over. More...
	1/10/2004 Productive Maintenance The implementation of a ‘World Class’ TPM programme is being reviewed More...
	1/7/2004 CMMS Best Practices The results are reported (and some conclusions are drawn) from a website-based independent survey of Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) benchmarking. More...
	1/7/2004 From Chaos to World Class Practical advise is given, to plant engineers and maintenance management professionals, on the measures they should take when charged with the complex task of turning around the performance of an Engineering Department, away from the run-of-the-mill (or worse) and towards the excellent. More...
	1/7/2004 The Benefits of CBM within a Multiple Line Tissue Mill Running a busy paper mill with limited resources, a limited budget and increasing production pressures is difficult at best, and on some occasions impossible. More...
	1/7/2004 Integrated Maintenance Management Systems Applied to Industrial Plant The number of technical papers written on the subject of Integrated Maintenance Systems (IMS) in the last decade alone would fill several libraries. However, the realisation of a truly integrated IMS has only been very recent. Many so called integrated packages involve the ability to measure some plant data and use basic alarms to set the status of an asset, providing a low level condition trigger for work orders. More...
	1/4/2004 RCM - can it deliver performance? Reliability Centred Maintenance has its advocates and detractors in fairly balanced numbers. This article shows how the industrial context is all-important and that it is not a case of one methodology being good and others bad. More...
	1/4/2004 The Business End of Maintenance Many organisations fail to see the maintenance function as part of their competitive advantage. Maintenance is more often regarded as a mystery to many decision makers and its frequently seen as an easy target for budget cuts More...
	1/4/2004 Rolling Element Bearng Condition Assessment - Enveloping Bearing problems are responsible for more than fifty percent of rotating-machine-related failures. The methods used for bearing fault detection are many and varied, this application note deals with the method preferred by the vast majority of vibration analysts, namely Enveloping. More...
	1/4/2004 Performance Measure to Identify the Effectiveness of Lean Thinking within Maintenance This paper discusses the combined issues of lean thinking, maintenance, and measure of performance - in particular, performance measures to identify the impact of lean thinking within maintenance. More...
	1/4/2004 Lean Maintenance Eliminates Waste in Maintenance Programmes It is explained that Lean Manufacturing philosophy focuses on the elimination of waste, ie of 'anything that does not add value to the product, process or service" and that this philosophy is equally beneficially applicable to Maintenance, 'Lean Maintenance' being the term that has been used by many companies who are beginning to blend the techniques of Lean Manufacturing with maintenance experience. More...
	1/11/2003 Towards an Intelligent Holonic Maintenance System A model is proposed that provides a decision analysis capability often missing in existing CMMSs. More...
	1/11/2003 An Introduction and Implementation of TPM Using a Conceptual Model Developed In-House - Phase 2 The second part is presented of a case study of the implementation of TPM at an iron foundry. After outlining the nature of the plant and its previous PM regime, Part 1 of this study describes the initial development of the TPM programme, ie the measurement of plant performance, the identification of areas of high maintenance cost, the introduction of CM and of Autonomous Maintenance, and the improvement of maintenance facilities More...
	1/11/2003 The Introduction and Implementation of TPM Using a Conceptual Model Developed In-House - Phase 1 A case study is presented of a two-phase implementation of TPM at an iron foundry. Part 1 of this study begins by outlining the nature of the plant and its previous PM regime. More...
	1/11/2003 How to Construct a Good Maintenance Plan The relationship between short-term maintenance scheduling and long-term planning is a subject frequently misunderstood. The efficient maintenance organisation recognises the importance and value of embracing both of these concepts in order to ensure the effective and streamlined implementation of the site's maintenance routines. More...
	1/11/2003 An Industrial Application of RCM: Methodology and Critical Analysis At a time when new and increasingly more complex equipment is being developed and companies are subject to economic and environmental pressures, maintenance faces new challenges. This paper describes the development of a defining methodology for forming the maintenance strategy to be applied to one of the industrial plants of CIRES (Industrial Company of Synthetic Resins) in Portugal. To this end, the principles set out in Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) were followed. More...
	1/11/2003 Production Line and Maintenance Performance Evaluation in some Nigerian Manufacturing Industries The different methods of evaluating production and maintenance performance in eight industrial companies in South Western Nigeria have been investigated. More...
	1/11/2003 Calculating Critical Stockholding for Spares It is shown that the scientific treatment of spares inventory and purchasing decisions (ie applying statistical and Queuing Theory methods, using software tools such as APT-Spares and APT-Stock, developed within the MACRO project) holds great scope for cost and performance improvement. More...
	1/11/2003 The Total EAM Vision - Strategic Advantages in Asset Management Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems provide a combination of asset, materials, human resource and financial management that offers great strategic advantage to the capital-intensive industries (mining, public utilities, transport, etc) dependent on large numbers of physical assets More...
	1/11/2003 Electrical Safety Testing - Eliminating the Dangers Through Preventive Maintenance The importance of ensuring the safety of electrical equipment used in the workplace, and the framework of UK and EC safety regulations underpinning this, are briefly reviewed, and the need to match any safety-testing programme to the nature and size of the enterprise using such equipment emphasised. More...
	1/7/2003 Electric Signature Analysis Electric Signature Analysis (ESA) is a diagnostic and analytic technique that is being used to analyse motors, generators, alternators, transformers, and other electric equipment. More...
	1/7/2003 The Need to Attract and the Need for Competence The paper describes how the UK offshore oil and gas industry has come increasingly to adopt national vocational standards over the last ten years. More...
	1/7/2003 Computerised Maintenance Management Systems: A Black Hole or a Black Box? The characteristics of Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) are reviewed in order to highlight the industrial need for such systems and to identify their current deficiencies More...
	1/7/2003 The Errors of Availability As a means of indicating maintenance effectiveness the monitoring of plant availability may reveal only a partial picture, and a possibly misleading one at that. Data on failure rates, and on the plant’s capacity to perform vital secondary functions, such as containment (vital for the safety of personnel or the protection of the environment) are also needed. More...
	1/4/2003 Classification and Coding System for Machine Tool Failres: Part II The accessibility of machine tool failure information organised in a proper format is of great importance if such maintenance objectives as reliability and availability improvement are to be achieved. More...
	1/4/2003 The Use of Environmental Management Systems for Implementing an Effective Maintenance Strategy This paper considers how ISO 14001 has been introduced within a company and how it works in practice. It addresses the issues of implementing a policy of life cycle environmental management and discusses managing the relationships amongst the discipline engineers and technicians and the way in which the company culture is developed to educate, train and encourage a positive attitude to introducing environmental practices into maintenance. More...
	1/4/2003 CMMS: Templates for Effective Implementations, A Position Paper The burden of providing maintenance services is heavier than ever, but the supporting technologies are also more advanced than they ever were – we now have a much wider technical and methodological knowledge base at our disposal. More...
	1/4/2003 Service Desk Comes of Age In a rapidly changing industry aspiring to put the customer at the centre of its focus the use of a Service Desk to co-ordinate the wide variety of diverse services is becoming more common place. Key to this drive have been the rapid improvements in technology performance, compatibility and pricing, leading to otherwise cost-prohibitive opportunities being exploited to maximise the commercial benefits of streamlined operational structures and service delivery chains. More...
	1/4/2003 Reducing the Cost of Preventive Maintenance Lean Manufacturing and Lean Maintenance target the identification and elimination of waste through continuous improvement. More...
	1/4/2003 Reducing the Impact of the Climate Change Levy through better maintenance The Climate Change Levy was implemented in April 2001 as part of the UK Government’s response to the threat of climate change. Under the Kyoto Protocol due to be ratified later this year, the UK has a legally binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gases. More...
	1/12/2002 Development and Application of Improved Methods for the Examination of Registered Pressure Equipment Maintenance of pressure vessels has traditionally been based on periodic visual inspection in support of continued safe operation. This method is effective, because in-service failures are rare, but it is expensive in maintenance and plant outage costs. More...
	1/12/2002 Synthetic Processing of Pulsed Thermographic Data for Inspection of Turbine Components In recent years, the potential of thermographic methods for non-destructive evaluation of turbine engine components has been widely acknowledged. The wide area, non-contact and curvature-tolerant aspects of thermography make it an appealing alternative to point detection inspection methods. More...
	1/10/2002 Managing Availability for Improved Bottom Line Results: Part II In Part II the author discusses - (a) the use of the availability model to find plant bottlenecks and increase throughput, (b) the impact on the maintenance and engineering organisation created by the need for such modelling and analysis, (c) practical measures for closing the natural gaps between the three types of availability. More...
	1/10/2002 Integrating Inspection Based and Reliability Based Information There are many sources of information on machinery health and production availability available to an organisation’s maintenance and operations staff. Two of the most commonly used sources of information are scheduled inspection of machinery and condition monitoring. In most cases, scheduled inspection has been managed via a plant’s maintenance management system (CMMS), and in many cases is carried out by the operational staff. More...
	1/10/2002 Classification and Coding Systems for Machine Tool Failures (Part I) The reasons for the creation of a common format for characterising and identifying machine failure are presented and the current maintenance situation with regard to machine downtime, data management, and communication and information technology is reviewed More...
	1/10/2002 An Integrated Approach to Asset Performance Improvement The ability to realise maximum return on investment in assets in affected by the range of inter-related technical and business factors. Understanding how factors such as maintenance strategy, asset integrity and business performance interact is essential in order to ensure that assets are operated so as to provide the best return on investment More...
	2/7/2002 Calculating the Savings from the Implementation of a CMMS A brief review is given of the origins and general characteristics of the two basic species of Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), viz Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems More...
	1/7/2002 The Long and Winding Road Ten years ago, following twenty fives years’ experience of traditional UK practice, the author joined the engineering department of a Japanese-owned and managed company manufacturing automotive equipment and committed to Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). More...
	1/7/2002 An Approach to Practical Reliability Improvement At a Slovenian ironworks it was observed that breakdowns of certain machinery occurred very frequently and that one of the main reasons for poor levels of production was the very low operational reliability of these machines. More...
	1/7/2002 E-Collaborative Systems in Facilities Asset Management Organisations need no reminding that the business environment is changing radically, and with ever- greater volumes of data being gathered the need to provide the resulting information in more concise form has increased More...
	1/7/2002 Using OEE to Drive Improvements Some short case studies show how the TPM approach, in particular the application of the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) concept and the creation of inter-disciplinary and inter-hierarchical project teams, has produced substantial and cost-effective improvements in bakery plant performance. More...
	1/7/2002 Managing Availability for Improved Bottom-Line Results: Part I During the past five to eight years, the role of maintenance manager has evolved from merely keeping equipment running to that of physical asset manager – whose goal is to maximise profits by managing such assets in a way that provides the optimum level of physical availability. Part 1 of this paper (Part 11 will be presented in the next issue) provides a framework for managing availability goals to help meet the financial goals of an organisation. More...
	2/4/2002 Modern Types of Contract and Best Practice in the Management & Maintenance of Property Assets It is explained that although there is nothing special about a maintenance contract (as compared with, say, an installation project contract) its key aspects are that it deals with the provision of a service, which is not easily measurable and will probably be on-going beyond the duration of the particular agreement – aspects which the contractual framework must deal with. More...
	2/4/2002 Condition Based Maintenance in Building Services The potential benefits of incorporating CBM into mainstream building services maintenance regimes are reviewed, as also are the problems which can hinder such developments (eg the difficulty of identifying the true costs of services plant failure). More...
	1/4/2002 Developing People's Involvement in Asset Management Through TPM The principles and practices of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) are reviewed, and it is explained that although it was originally developed for manufacturing industry it can also be applied in non-manufacturing organisations. More...
	1/4/2002 Energy Efficient Maintenance Practices - Making Best Use of Company Assets and the Earth's Resources Maintenance approaches and techniques such as TPM, RCM, PPM and Condition Monitoring have traditionally concentrated upon the improvement of the uptime and performance of company assets and their effectiveness has been measured accordingly More...
	2/2/2002 Spare Parts Decision Analysis - The Missing Link in CMMS's (Part II) Building upon a concept first put forward by Lenard and Roy {1}, it is proposed that, rather than adapt one policy to suit all spare parts inventory, maintenance inventories should be segmented and controlled using a number of different policies. To facilitate this, a multi-criterion technique has been used, and developed into a proposed software package. More...
	1/2/2002 Maintenance management and Delay Reduction ‘Its Monday morning; the line is down – what do I do?’ The core activity of industrial maintenance is the effective and efficient delivery of machinery up-time to production. A machine breakdown is generally a failure on the part of the maintenance department to deliver this. More...
	1/12/2001 Identifying Current Needs Using Root Cause Analysis Only when investigators are able to determine why an incident or failure occurred can effective preventive measures be taken. More...
	1/12/2001 Creating a Model of Excellence for Plant Shutdowns Plant shutdowns have a major impact on business, so it is surprising how few companies fully appreciate the basic principles of shutdown management and the costs involved; costs that can spiral out of control without effective management More...
	1/12/2001 Spare Parts Decision Analysis - The Missing Link in CMMSs (part 1) The management of the spare parts inventory is recognised as offering considerable scope for the development of a Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) module More...
	1/11/2001 Uptime at Minimum Cost: RCM Experience in Some Continuous Process Industries Many articles have been written about Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) and the need to rigidly follow its analytical approach – developed by Nowlan and Heap of Eastern Airlines to safeguard the essential functions of new commercial aircraft until sufficient operating data to maintain them correctly became available More...
	1/11/2001 Optimal Maintenance: RCM LITE and a PPMS for manufacturing and process plants From a senior manger’s point of view there would be much to gain by having a comprehensive strategy for maintenance that would provide a defined path to improvement, with the means to monitor that improvement and the impact it is having on overall efficiency. Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) is recognised as the most comprehensive strategy and operating a planned preventive maintenance system (a PPMS) as the best way of measuring progress More...
	1/11/2001 Condition Monitoring in the Steel Industry: Hopes and Disillusions Examples are given of the successful application, in the iron and steel industries, of plant condition monitoring techniques involving, for instance, simple statistical analysis of vibration in applications which were aimed at improving product quality and operational safety, and also at achieving more accurate fatigue-life prediction and hence longer useful life of plant. Also discussed are the organisational requirements for ensuring the success of such implementations. More...
	1/9/2001 Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), its Application at a Phamaceutical Facility Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) will deliver an audit trail of maintenance policy, decisions and actions More...
	1/9/2001 A Comparative Review of Major Manufacturing Improvement Methods A comparative review is given of several currently popular methods for improving the performance of manufacturing and processing systems, viz Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Supply Chain Principles, Reliability Centred Maintenance and Total Productive Maintenance More...
	1/6/2001 AMIS Maintenance Management Trends 1988-2000 In 1988, in order to improve the productivity of plant assets, the DTI sponsored the development of the Asset Management Information Service (AMIS). More...
	1/6/2001 The Case Against Streamlined RCM It is explained that the growing popularity of RCM has led to the development of numerous derivatives, some of which are refinements and enhancements of Nowlan and Heap’s original RCM process while others are less rigorous spin-offs, most of which are attempts to ‘streamline’ the maintenance strategy formation process. More...
	1/6/2001 Maintenance Co-operative Agreements to Reflect Technical Change & the Need for Flexibility Skills A pilot research project is reported, conducted under the EU’s Leonardo da Vinci programme and aimed at developing work-based training modules for advancing flexible working in small to medium enterprises, exploring the possibility of certification of such training via linked national and European arrangements, and developing the criteria necessary for formulating successful co-operative agreements in this area. More...
	1/3/2001 The Acoustic Emission of Grease Lubricated Rolling Bearings In the acoustic emission (AE) method of condition monitoring a high frequency vibration from the surface of the object concerned is studied. More...
	1/3/2001 A Critical Element in Maintenance An introduction, for those contemplating – perhaps for the first time – applying condition monitoring (CM) to the mitigation of some of their maintenance problems, but who are in need of some basic advice and re-assurance. More...
	1/3/2001 An adaptive performance measurement system using the Balanced Scorecard Seeking an adaptable solution to the recurrent needs of maintenance management in today’s knowledge economy, we presume that the role of maintenance will invariably be that of a value driver. More...
	1/1/2001 Re-Defining the Strategic Significance of Asset Management from a Cost Centre to a Value Driver In the context of industrial asset management maintenance is traditionally treated as a cost centre. This view has not yielded any significant impact on the current assessment of what, realistically, maintenance can be expected to deliver to achieve core-business objectives. More...
	1/1/2001 Taking the Risk Out of Maintenance Selecting the right equipment to inspect and overhaul at the right time, with the right scope of work, is fundamental to maximising plant performance and integrity in an environment of ever increasing competitive and regulatory pressures. More...
	1/1/2001 A Risk-Based Maintenance Case Study A Risk-based maintenance strategy can be used to optimise and prioritise equipment maintenance and upgrade decisions More...
	1/12/2000 The Human Factor - Auditing Human Factors in Maintenance Management The often dominant influence of human relations on the way in which maintenance is carried out, and on the effectiveness and efficiency of that work, is reviewed, and also touched on is the author’s experience in auditing such human factors in the industrial situation More...
	1/12/2000 TPM/RCM Combining TPM and RCM: A Case Study A recent experience at a large automotive manufacturing facility has demonstrated how to combine Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM). More...
	1/12/2000 Power RCM: A Survey of Reliability Centred Maintenance Applications in Power Plants Ten years ago Electricité De France (EDF) launched a Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) project to optimise the preventive maintenance of its nuclear power plants. More...
	1/9/2000 Effective AM - The Road to Effective Asset Management is Paved With ..... The authors discuss, from the view point of public utility management, the likely development of some aspects of asset management (AM), in particular the exploitation of information systems as a key component of enabling technology (ET). More...
	1/9/2000 AM Latest Asset Management - Latest Thinking A wide-ranging review is presented of the current state of the rapidly developing art of asset management. More...
	1/9/2000 Maintenance USA - The State of the Art of Maintenance in North America A qualitative overview is presented of maintenance practices in North America. Its findings are based on a survey among member of the Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals, on organisation based in the United States More...
	1/7/2000 Benchmarking - Using Benchmarking Data Effectively - Sustainable maintenance performance targets In the previous issue of Maintenance the author described a questionnaire-based statistical survey of reliability performance and maintenance practice – in the petrochemical and refining sector in over sixty different companies in five countries – the aim of which was to develop a system of cost-indices for use in performance benchmarking. In this follow-up paper he outlines his views, developed over twenty years of such work, on how its full potential can be realised More...
	1/7/2000 Enterprising Maintenance The author describes how his company, a well known manufacturer of technical and food-related chemicals, is achieving a strategy for maintenance which not only draws on the ideas of RCM, TPM, Asset Management and Manufacturing Resource Planning, but also aims to integrate the Maintenance, Production and Business functions of the organisation. Analysis using the Asset Management Flowchart is particularly stressed. More...
	1/5/2000 Software Systems - Implementing New Software Systems - A Risky Business An overview is presented of some of the likely pitfalls, risks and benefits of a major investment in new software systems More...
	1/5/2000 Benchmarking - Plant Reliability and Maintenance Benchmarking A questionnaire-based survey is described of reliability performance and maintenance practice in over sixty chemical companies in five different countries. More...
	1/5/2000 Diagnostics - An On-Line Integrated Diagnostic System for FMS's In order to maintain the productivity of a Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) it is crucial to react quickly when a fault occurs. More...
	1/5/2000 Thermography - Infrared Thermography: A Valuable Weapon in the Condition Monitoring Armoury Using infrared thermography as an integral part of a plant condition monitoring programme noticeably improves equipment reliability, directly impacting on process availability while avoiding unnecessary costs. It provides short and long term economic benefits. More...
	1/3/2000 Fast Track RCM - Getting Results from RCM (Part 1) Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) has had a chequered history. Part 1 of this paper traces its emergence, in the sixties and seventies, as the saviour of airline industry maintenance and then follows it through its mixed reception in industry to its successful evolution, during the past decade, into an effective performance improvement tool. More...
	1/3/2000 Concrete CMMS - Building & Implementing a Computerised Maintenance Management System A two-year duration project is reported, aimed at building a complete PC-based Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS). More...
	1/3/2000 RCM Case Study - Getting Results from RCM (Part 2) This second part of the authors’ paper on performance improvement via RCM describes a typical industrial application using developments in RCM methodology that have been recently introduced by GGR Associates. More...
	1/3/2000 RCM Standard - SAE's New Standard for RCM In August 1999 the International Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) published a standard for Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM), for use by anyone who wishes to apply RCM to physical assets. More...
	1/12/1999 Integrated Maintenance Work Control Traditionally, maintenance management systems treat each maintenance policy separately; with separate functions for projects, time-based, condition-based, breakdown and condition monitoring tasks. Benefits can arise from dealing with tasks from these functions together, using a fully integrated system for controlling maintenance work from inception through to completion More...
	1/12/1999 Breaking the Chains of Preventive Maintenance: The Royal Navy Experience In the early 1980s the Royal Navy revised its maintenance policy away from the calendar-based preventive activities and towards condition-based procedures. More...
	1/12/1999 RCM2 in Hyder- How easy has it proved to be? For some while, the Welsh utility company, Hyder, has had a plan for the long-term deployment of the RCM2™ methodology throughout its water, sewage and electricity operations. More...
	1/10/1999 Turnarounds: Context and Strategy An Overview It is argued that – for most process, power and manufacturing plant – turnarounds (shutdowns for major refurbishment) will remain, for the foreseeable future, a periodically occurring necessity. More...
	1/10/1999 Full Life Cycle Asset Management . Its Role in Enterprise Wide Change: Part II In Part II they examine the reasons why this type of change programme is becoming increasingly prone to failure, and explain how to avoid the common pitfalls on the road to successful implementation. More...
	1/10/1999 Is this the Biggest Maintenance Project Ever? Responsive Prioritisation for the Year 2000 Problem The author believes that the imminence and global implications of the Y2K problem render it the biggest maintenance challenge currently confronting us. It is argued that prioritisation of Y2K preparations is essential and that, with little time left, only well-developed and thoroughly validated techniques adapted from appropriate disciplines should be brought to bear More...
	1/7/1999 Case Study - Auditing the Central Engineering Service of a Multi-Plant Site Seeking major improvements in all-round productivity, the senior management of a long-established, multi-plant, chemicals and textile manufacturing complex were particularly concerned about the manning levels and productivity of the centralised engineering and maintenance services – which retained many structural and organisational features inherited from a much earlier production regime. More...
	1/7/1999 Case Study - Controlling Maintenance in a Chemical Processing Plant, Part II Any activity requiring a management process must include a check step or control system. More...
	1/7/1999 Full Life-Cycle Asset Management - its role in enterprise wide change: Part 1 Any new approach to business with the potential enterprise-wide impact of Full Life Cycle Asset Management (FLAM) has a natural gestation period More...
	1/5/1999 A Case Study - Controlling Maintenance in a Chemical Processing Plant: Part 1 Any activity requiring a management process must include check steps and control systems. In maintenance, one such check would be to ensure that the maintenance objective was being met, the control systems then adjusting and directing the maintenance resource if it were not More...
	1/5/1999 The Maintenance and Millennium Problems - A Salutary Comparison? Features of the maintenance problem are compared to those of the Year 2000 (Y2K) problem. Similarities found suggest that lessons learned from one can be applied to the other. Aspects of responsibility, communication, decision making and prioritisation are addressed. More...
	1/5/1999 Automated Work Scheduling Development of information systems for improved maintenance management has, over the years, focused upon improved means for optimising maintenance. More...
	1/1/1999 Maintenance of Robots in Automated Production. Part 2 This is the second part of a report on the study of failures in industrial robots and of the maintenance methods used. The first part, published in the last issue (Volume 13, Number 5, December 1998) described the plant, and presented a critical review of existing maintenance and collection methods were analysed, and the limitations of such systems were discussed. The paper concluded with a brief resume of the results. More...
	1/1/1999 Streamlined RCM in the Nuclear Industry The Maintenance Optimisation Tool (MOT) is the streamlined version of RCM that has been developed by British Energy and used in their power stations to optimise the maintenance of plant systems. More...
	1/1/1999 Web Warehousing - Next Generation Integrated Supply Over the last fifteen years, streamlining supply channels has yielded significant cost savings for larger production-based companies. Typically, significant investment is made in developing sophisticated infra-structures for reducing the “no added value” content of business transactions – which is commercially justifiable when economies of scale are present More...
	1/1/1999 Asset Management and Maintenance Strategy Asset maintenance policies should offer various options in line with the plans for the future of the organisation two years or more ahead. More...
	1/1/1999 The CMMS Technology Revolution - Why 'Best of Breed' will still be best New component-based architectures, particularly those following the “three-tier” (or “n-tier”) model, is set to revolutionise how “best-of-breed” CMMS software will function in an environment that increasingly craves integration, customisation and Internet connectivity More...
	1/1/1999 Health Servicve Estates Management Policies for the next Millennium Faced with the twin challenges of improving performance and reducing budgets, in 1996 Guy’s hospital embarked on a project to achieve a major turn-around of its estates management operation. More...
	1/12/1998 Maintenance of Robots in Automated Production. Part 1 - a survey of plant and data collection Robot failures are costly and difficult to diagnose. Advanced diagnostics and condition monitoring can reduce breakdowns and downtime, but it is important to have a complete picture of the problem. Breakdown data is hard to obtain, so this study has first focused on collection and analysis of robot failure information. More...
	1/12/1998 The Maintenance Benefits of Smart Technology The field of machinery maintenance is facing a revolution. The continued evolution of computing power and technology is facilitating the embodiment of intelligent tools on to the desktop. These tools are no longer the toys of researchers and academics with super-computers, but find important applications in business and in the improvement of product quality and design. More...
	1/12/1998 The Maintenance Theory Jungle An increasing amount of attention has been paid to the subject of maintenance over the past twenty years More...
	1/10/1998 Lubricants & WDS - A Prgamatic Approach to Lubricant and Wear Debris Analysis A lubricant may be considered as much an integral part of a machine as any of its mechanical components and it must perform many vital functions over extended periods of operation. More...
	1/10/1998 Responsible Custodianship By likening the development of maintenance strategy to the building of a house it is demonstrated that success depends first and foremost on the laying of sound foundations in the form of correctly identified maintenance needs, a process which can be expedited via the application of Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM). More...
	1/10/1998 Vehicle Maintenance - Reducing Vehicle Maintenance by Improving Vehicle Design & Specification Parcelforce operates a fleet of eight thousand vehicles, ranging from light vans to 38-tonne motive units and semi trailers. After briefly outlining important aspects of its maintenance management – outsourcing policy, implementation of information systems, purchasing – the author reviews the various changes that have been made, successfully, to vehicle design in order to reduce whole life maintenance costs. More...
	1/7/1998 Criticality - Criticality Analysis Revisited Criticality analysis is applied in risk and reliability studies to rank decisions on system design and operation More...
	1/7/1998 Facilities Management - How Can Municipal Facilities be run at a Profit and Maintained (part 2) Communal facilities must be properly maintained but, with today’s tight constraints on public funding, must also be run at a profit. In co-operation with eleven German municipalities, the Institute of Maintenance Engineering (IFIN) has developed a set of approaches for coping with this problem. More...
	1/7/1998 Maintenance Strategy - A Business Centred Approach A systematic procedure, for the formulation of optimal maintenance strategy for industrial plant, is explained in some detail. It is driven throughout by the identification of primary business objectives and their translation into maintenance objectives, and is therefore termed Business-Centred Maintenance (BCM). More...
	1/5/1998 Reliability of Quality - Impact of an Emerging Empirical Model on Asset Management In the past four decades much has been done to highlight the importance of customers, those most critical of assets is the customer-supplier chain. It is now globally accepted that satisfying their needs and requirements is going to become more important than ever before. More...
	1/5/1998 Facilities Management - How can municipal facilities be run at a profit and maintained? Communal facilities must be properly maintained but, with today’s tight constraints on public funding, must also be run at a profit. In co-operation with eleven German municipalities, the Institute of Maintenance Engineering (IFIN) has developed a set of approaches for coping with this problem. More...
	1/5/1998 Msc in Mtce - Why we're studying maintenance A group of working engineers, just embarked on a part-time MSc programme in Maintenance Engineering, tell all to John Harris. More...
	1/5/1998 MACRO - Maintenance Strategy - the MACRO view The International Eureka MAINE MACRO project has been busily collating the experiences of collaborating organisations in many industries. In addition to the development of innovative technical methods, MACRO is generating procedural guidance and training programmes to implement risk-based management techniques. More...
	1/1/1998 Establishing the True Cost of Downtime This paper begins with a discussion of downtime and its effects, from the point of view of directors and managers. A consideration of the effects of downtime on the organisation then highlights the need for change, the catalyst for which is provided through ideas for auditing the organisation, and which sets the platform on which to improve. More...
	1/1/1998 Asset Management - The Maintenance Perspective The relationship between asset management and maintenance is discussed and maintenance is identified as being an aspect of asset management that impacts all phases of the asset life cycle More...
	1/1/1998 Challenges for the Year 2000 in the new an d Changing South Africa The new South Africa, which emerged in April 1994 from its first elections based on universal suffrage, faces formidable economic and political tasks, outlined in the government’s Reconstruction and Development Programme More...
	1/12/1997 BMS for CBM Utilising existing systems (BMS) as condiiton based maintenance tools Building Management Systems are installed in most new buildings and have been retrofitted in many older ones. The authors show that data currently being used to obtain effective control of a building’s environment can also be used as ‘free’ data for condition monitoring. More...
	1/12/1997 What is Asset Management? An ‘Asset’ at its most basic, anything of value or worth. So we are all ‘asset managers’ because we look after our houses, cars money, families, friends, reputations and so on. More...
	1/12/1997 PEOPLE - Aligning Strategy with People It is recognised that the maintenance function plays a vital role in supporting the changing needs of a modern manufacturing business. This in turn brings the need to develop a coherent integrated strategy for aligning maintenance effectively with the company and its production goals. More...
	1/12/1997 ORGANISATION - A Case Study Exercise in Maintenance Organisation A case study exercise is presented, in the organisation of maintenance in a food processing plant it is taken from the author’s just-published textbook on maintenance organisation and systems. The aim of the exercise is to give the reader the opportunity to test his knowledge of the organisational principles developed and discussed in his book. More...
	1/9/1997 Maintenance in Eastern European Mining An EU consultancy project - to install a ‘best-in-class’ maintenance system for the lignite mines of Romania - is described. Funded by PHARE, the project undertook a critical analysis of the systems for maintaining and repairing equipment in both the open pit and underground mines operated by the Lignite Regia Autonoma Oltenia (RALO). More...
	1/9/1997 How to Measure Maintenance Effectiveness The control of maintenance requires the design, implementation and use of a number of performance indicators by means of which its effectiveness can be continuously monitored. In most operations it will be found that such indicators already exist More...
	1/9/1997 An Advanced Approach to the Bending Fatigue in Spur Gears The testing and use is described of an advanced signal processing technique, called the continuous wavelet transform, for the detection and location of defects in gear teeth caused by bending fatigue. Defects of this kind were simulated on a real spur gear which was then tested on a back-to-back- gear rig, the resulting vibration signals being detected by accelerometers located around the bearing housing closest to the faulty gear. More...
	1/9/1997 Two Case Studies in the Setting of Maintenance Strategyu Two case studies in the formulation of maintenance strategy are presented, one dealing with problems at a petroleum refinery, the other with problems at an open cast coal mine. Both taken from the author’s recently published textbook on maintenance strategy. More...
	1/7/1997 Maintenance Education, The Thermo King Europe Experience Increasing industrial competitiveness has seen the demise of the ‘oily-rag’ maintenance craftsmen. High technology production machinery demands highly educated craftsmen to maintain it at its optimum efficiency. More...
	1/7/1997 Maintenance Decision Analysis - its a capital mistake to theorise before one has data? With the increased size and complexity of modern process plant the cost of maintenance and consequential lost-production downtime become important parameters in the overall profitability equations. Maintenance decisions can have a material effect on minimising losses but must be based on sound, relevant and timely data. More...
	1/7/1997 The Basic Principles of Maintenance Engineering The following paper presents a set of principles of maintenance engineering which have been formulated by the Institut fur Instandhaltung GmbH (IFIN, the German Institute of Maintenance Engineering) with the aim of describing a paradigm change within maintenance More...
	1/5/1997 Engineered Maintenance of Civil Port Structures Civil port structures are usually located in a notoriously aggressive environment. In the past, the common approach to maintenance has been to act when problems are visible, or when serviceability or structural capacity is affected. More...
	1/5/1997 Maintenance on a Mountain The objectives, problems and achievements of the Isaac Newton Group (ING), in managing the maintainable assets at the observatory on La Palma, one of the Canary Islands, are reviewed. The observatory is located at over 2400 metres (8000 feet) above sea level. More...
	1/5/1997 Systematic Functional Analysis of Plant and Equipment - Why is it there? A prerequisite for rational planning of the maintenance of industrial plant is the identification of clear definitions of - (I) the functions provided by the plant and its component sub-systems, (ii) the standard of performance required from the plant and sub-systems. More...
	1/5/1997 Concrete Durability Problems Structural Aspects, Life Cycle Analysis and Case Studies Concrete is an amazingly versatile, low cost, durable construction material which is very forgiving and tolerant of much abuse. When properly specified, mixed and placed - and provided its partner, steel reinforcement, is correctly positioned - there is no reason why the final product should not last indefinitely in non-aggressive environments with minimal maintenance and repair More...
	1/1/1997 A Decision Support System Prototype for Maintenance Management A concept for a next generation Decision Support System (DSS) for maintenance management is presented. Such a system will integrate information from other systems dedicated to process control, condition monitoring, diagnosis, maintenance planning, and production planning. More...
	1/1/1997 The Management of Assets: Stackers and Reclaimers at BHP, Newcastle, Australia Large bulk material handling machines (such as stackers and reclaimers), which are exposed to external environments, deteriorate structurally as they age. The application of an asset management plan has provided the framework to review the condition and design of seven such machines in the sinter plant at BHP Newcastle. Anticipated in the business plan is the need to provide a safe working environment and to maintain the primary assets of the business. More...
	1/1/1997 Maintenance Management Systems: Objectives and Solutions This paper examines many of the topics which must be addressed in the selection process leading up to the installation of maintenance management systems More...
	1/1/1997 Assessing the Effectiveness of a Maintenance Programme A model has been developed for aiding evaluation of the effectiveness of existing test and maintenance programmes of industrial plant. It combines analysis of the historical data on faults and repairs with analysis of the history of functional testing and preventive maintenance programmes. More...
	1/11/1996 Diagnosis of Centrifugal Pumps The maintenance and downtime costs of pumps, in Finland, have been studied and seal leakage was found to be the fault that causes the highest such costs. More...
	1/11/1996 Improving the Maintenance of Power Plants, a Key Factor for Developing Countries A very fast growth is being reported in the demand for electrical power in the developing countries More...
	1/11/1996 The Application of Neural Networks for Product Quality and Machine Condition Monitoring .... A collaborative venture is described, involving suppliers of vibration monitoring equipment and of neural network software, a major high volume manufacturer of DIY goods and a university More...
	1/11/1996 FieldBus: The Basis for an Open Architecture Condition Monitoring Revolution Over the last twelve months, a predominant subject of conversation in control systems circles has been the potential offered by open architecture automation systems based upon the Fieldbus concept More...
	1/9/1996 Improved Maintenance Planning, Scheduling and Work Control Using Integrated, Paperless ... The concept that direct maintenance costs can be reduced by making use of highly integrated, paperless, maintenance task information is examined More...
	1/9/1996 Reducing System Downtime Using a Maintenance Information System The research described in this paper was undertaken to investigate the problems of devising a Maintenance Information System (MIS) with the express purpose of reducing downtime and also to assist a particular manufacturing company which was experiencing acute downtime More...
	1/9/1996 A Machine Health Index Based on Artificial Intelligence Techniques In the implementation of condition based maintenance (CBM) within complex industrial processes a measure of machine health based on condition monitoring data is beneficial to indicate operational state and highlight maintenance requirements. More...
	1/5/1996 Integral Management of Production Assets Observing the significant costs of maintenance activities and the economic benefit to be gained from higher process availability, captains of industry increasingly show great interest in effective production asset management techniques. More...
	1/5/1996 The Maintenance of Protective Systems (Part 1) Within the home, and across a broad spread of industries, society has become increasingly dependent on protective systems and devices. More...
	1/5/1996 The Application of Reliability-Centred Maintenance Structures Methods to Ships and Submarines Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM) has now been in use for over thirty years from its early beginnings in Maintenance Steering Group planning documents for the Boeing 747 and Concorde More...
	1/5/1996 Automating the Diagnosis of Valve Faults in Reciprocating Compressors In the previous issue of Maintenance the authors showed that analysis of the Smoothed Pseudo Wigner Ville Distribution (SPWVD) can provide an interpretation of compressor valve vibration response and thus form a basis for valve fault diagnosis More...
	1/3/1996 Managing the Utility Physical Asset Base The author draws on his consulting experience in the utilities sector to argue that effective management of the physical asset base should be a key business strategy for every utility organisation in the coming decade More...
	1/3/1996 Formulation of an Appropriate Productive Maintenance Strategy Using Multiple Criteria Decison Making Experience gained in leading manufacturing companies by the authors has shown that formulating a maintenance strategy is a difficult process with many problems More...
	1/3/1996 The Successful Implementation of a Vibration-Based Condition Monitoring Programme A successful predictive maintenance programme relies very heavily on its correct set-up and implementation, and on long-term commitment and support - both by the user and the supplier of the system. More...
	1/3/1996 A Preliminary Investigation of Valve Fault Diagnosis in Reciprocating Compressors University of Manchester, and T A Henry, WM Engineering Ltd More...
	1/1/1996 Achieving Cost Effective Maintenance through the integration of Condition Monitoring British industry now seems partially convinced of the central role that asset care plays in the achievement of world class performance More...
	1/1/1996 Maintenance Management - a New Paradigm This paper attempts to summarise fifteen of the most important areas of change which have occurred in the field of physical asset management over the past fifteen years. More...
	1/1/1996 Applying the RCM Method to High Voltage Sub-Stations Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) has been extensively used in the military, aeronautical and nuclear power generation sectors. More...
	1/1/1996 Reliability Centred Maintenance and its implications for Asset Management Systems It is suggested that Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) cannot be fully implemented in major industrial plant unless an effective computerised support system is in place More...
	1/11/1995 Benchmarking the Human Side of Management Benchmarking is now a well-established aspect of the philosophies of Total Quality and Continuous Improvement More...
	1/11/1995 Diagnosing Turbo Generator Faults with a Rule Based Expert System Expert systems (ES) have emerged as one of the prominent application areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. The use of knowledge-based expert systems is being explored for many potential tasks, one of these being the diagnosis of faults in machinery More...
	1/11/1995 Vibration Monitoring of Rotordynamic Pumping Machinery - A Case Study` The potential benefits from pump vibration monitoring within UK industry are often not realised due to poor system design and inadequate management consideration. With the cost of pumping within the UK industrial sector estimated at £1000 million per year, the potential for savings, estimated to be between 10% and 15% of that figure, is enormous More...
	1/9/1995 Time is Money Maintenance downtimes and maintenance activity elapsed-times are extremely important factors contributing to two major yardsticks of airline and civil aircraft performance, viz Dispatch Reliability and Direct Maintenance Costs, both of which have important cost implications More...
	1/9/1995 Asset Management at the BBC World Service Between late 1993 and early 1994 the BBC World Service recognised that there was a need to move from a series of stand-alone PCs and card index systems, each handling differing aspects of asset management, to a single integrated system capable of performing the role of the stand-alone PCs. More...
	1/9/1995 Maintenance Information Systems an Assessment of General Requirements The author draws upon his considerable experience in the design and provision of maintenance management and asset care systems. More...
	1/5/1995 Moving from Maintenance Management to Asset Management The range of methodologies, software tools and visionary concepts continues to multiply. This paper scans the areas of development and comments on their penetration and degrees of impact. In many cases, the readiness to adopt a more ‘Asset Management’ professionalism is a matter of overcoming interdepartmental barriers rather than just adopting some clever new technology. More...
	1/5/1995 Integration of TPM Concepts in the Design of a New Plant A review is given of an approach to integrating TPM concepts into the design of new, technologically advanced, plant - a very large electrical direct-current-operated, double vat, furnace. The use of Failure Mode Effect and Criticality Analysis, Functional Analysis, experience transfer via Benchmarking, and other techniques, is discussed and design to facilitate operator self-maintenance is emphasised. More...
	1/5/1995 Overcoming the Difficulties of Implementing TPM in Europe In European enterprises the implementation of overall, company-wide, philosophies like Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) has proved to be rather difficult. Managers, consultants and researchers, however, tend to focus on the success stories More...
	1/5/1995 Application Management in a Distributed, Object Oriented Condition Monitoring System This paper describes some aspects of a software development toolkit for industrial condition monitoring and maintenance planning applications More...
	1/5/1995 Implementation of an Integrated Condition Based Maintenance Programme A case study is presented of the planning and implementation of a comprehensive programme of condition based maintenance for a large onshore oilfield. More...
	1/3/1995 A Basis for the Vibration Monitoring of Diesel Fuel Injectors This paper presents the analytical and experimental procedures used in the estimation of key fuel injection parameters from monitored vibration data. More...
	1/3/1995 Use of the Smoothed Pseudo-Wigner-Ville Distribution Of the range of time-frequency methods of analysis, the Wigner-Ville Distribution (WVD) is probably the most popular. This paper explores the capabilities of the WVD, the pseudo-WVD and the smoothed-pseudo-WVD in the analysis of short duration transients embedded in noisy data More...
	1/3/1995 Inspection Methods in Condition Monitoring Despite the development of condition measurement techniques - employing data collectors for efficient administration, inspections based on qualitative assessment of plant condition predominate as a tool in maintenance. This paper examines simple inspection procedures and explains how they have been combined with numerical measurements in condition monitoring More...
	1/3/1995 Bearings, Condition Monitoring, Condition Measurement & Condition Control This paper briefly outlines, and aims to objectively compare, the vibration measurement method for monitoring the condition of rolling element bearings and the shock pulse method for doing so. More...
	1/1/1995 Creating a Pro Active Maintenance Regime - Selecting and Implementing a Maintenance Review Programme The authors explain that a Review of Equipment Maintenance (REM) - an approach to the formulation of industrial maintenance strategy which incorporates elements of RCM and some of the ideas behind TPM - can address both the human-resource-related problems of maintenance and the technical ones. More...
	1/1/1995 A Systematic Approach to Managing Risk - Reliability Centred Maintenance Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) is a systematic way of managing the risk of equipment failure More...
	1/1/1995 The Truth about Computer Systems and Performance Indicators in Maintenance For a number of years computerised maintenance management systems (CMMS) have been the focus for companies wishing to improve their asset management strategy. During this period much has been promised but only a little has been learned, and even less has been delivered in terms of improved plant performance More...
	1/1/1995 Experience-Based Reliability Centred Maintenance - Case Study The analysis of operating experience - e.g. of failure and corrective maintenance reports - gives valuable information on equipment behaviour in its operational and maintenance environment More...
	1/12/1994 We are too small to worry about maintenance Optimising the maintenance of plant has long been uppermost in the minds of engineers responsible for the effective management of assets. The introduction of new maintenance technology and practice has been readily adopted by maintenance engineers in the progressive, and usually large, national or multinational organisations. More...
	1/12/1994 The Development of Diagnostic Application from Flowcharts, without the use of Rule Sets The need to construct sets of rules has been a major obstacle to the development of pc-based diagnostic systems. Software is described which simplifies the development of such applications by dispensing with the need for rules, using instead the flowcharts prepared in the normal course of obtaining and documenting the expert knowledge More...
	1/12/1994 The Supply of Spare Parts: A Growing Problem for the Maintenance Engineer One of today’s major problems is the supply of spare parts. It is one of the main causes of the difficulties met by the economies of developing countries; it is also a growing concern of maintenance engineers in Europe itself. This paper reviews the main difficulties encountered in the national and international spare parts business and suggests some approaches to the easing of these problems. Also outlined are the principal underlying causes of the increasing tendency towards the internationalism of the spare parts business - the rapid pace of change, throughout the World, in manufacturing industry and the resultant acceleration in the obsolescence of components. More...
	1/12/1994 Trends in Maintenance Management in Europe Over the past three decades maintenance management techniques have been subject to a continuous search for efficiency. In particular, the move towards ‘maintenance as a profit centre’ has been one of the most remarkable developments. Various factors influenced this in a positive way. More...
	1/9/1994 Maintenance Strategies using RCM It is explained that Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) is a method for formulating an effective and economic maintenance strategy - an appropriate mix of the available techniques - that address the potentially conflicting profitability, safety and environmental requirements. More...
	1/9/1994 Total Productive Maintenance and Reliability Centred Maintenance, Competing or Complementary? The author explains that Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is essentially an operating philosophy aimed - in pursuit of the business objectives of quality and delivery at low cost - at minimising the hidden costs of impaired operation, whereas Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) is a maintenance management strategy aimed at improving the efficiency of maintenance by identifying the type and quantity which is appropriate to the consequences of failure. More...
	1/9/1994 Evaluating the Intangible Benefits of Reliability Centred Maintenance Although major benefits are claimed from the introduction of Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM), severe difficulties have been encountered during its implementation, with the result that many applications have been delayed, or even abandoned. More...
	1/9/1994 Practical RCM Analysis and its Information Requirements Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) was conceived and developed by airlines in the USA. Over the past ten years its application elsewhere has evolved rather slowly even though there are obvious financial benefits to be obtained. In part this has been due to the significant difference between aircraft maintenance and power, process and manufacturing (PP&M) system maintenance which makes the first steps towards RCM in these latter industries quite daunting. More...
	1/6/1994 Mathematical Models for the Optimisation of Maintenance and their Application in Practice It is explained that although there has been much development, during the last twenty years of mathematical models for the optimisation of maintenance procedures, most of this has been academic and only a small part of it has found its way to the maintenance manager. More...
	1/6/1994 Business Centred Maintenance The authors provide some thoughts on: The roles of assets in relation to business objectives; Asset criticality; Appropriate maintenance strategies; Planning for asset availability related to business need; Strategy change mechanisms, and; Measuring effectiveness. More...
	1/6/1994 Cost/Benefit Analysis Methods for Condition Monitoring The traditional maintenance strategies of ‘Run to Failure’ and ‘Scheduled Maintenance’ are increasingly unacceptable in many process and manufacturing operations. The alternative, to use Condition Monitoring (CM) systems with predictive capabilities, provides early detection of machinery problems based on collection of machine data. More...
	1/6/1994 The Integration of Machinery Condition Monitoring into an Overall Maintenance Programme It is emphasised that, although a condition-based policy might be the best form of maintenance for some machines, on a total plant scale a combination of this and other policies (such as time-based maintenance) will always be the most cost-effective approach. More...
	1/3/1994 Computer Aided Maintenance Management Systems Drawing on his company's experience in providing AMIS, the DTI-supported benchmarking service in maintenance management, the author concludes that, in general, the application of Computer Aided Maintenance Management (CAMM) Systems has not been as successful as it might have been. More...
	1/3/1994 Bespoke Facilities Management In the context of the property portfolio of a major bank, this paper discusses the importance of business aims and objectives in the selection of an appropriate operation and maintenance strategy, and highlights the benefits to be gained from the use of Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) techniques in large, technically complex, buildings. More...
	1/3/1994 Integrated Health Assessment of Aerospace Propulsion and Transmission Systems This article explains in general terms the concept of integrated health assessment. It then draws upon experience gained with the Royal Air Force Allison T56A-15 Turboprop engine in order to highlight some of the issues involved and to provide an insight into the benefits that can be achieved by adopting such an approach. More...
	1/3/1994 Inspection, Rehabilitation and Maintenance of Concrete Structures After outlining the chemistry of the corrosive deterioration of steel reinforcement in concrete structures the authors review the principle methods - carbonation testing, chloride concentration testing, covermeter testing etc - of investigating such deterioration. More...
	1/1/1994 Thoughts on Multi-Skilling Maintenance Drawing on twenty years experience in industrial management, primarily with the Ford Motor Company where, among other posts held, he was Manager of Plant engineering for Ford Britain and Chief Engineer Asset Preservation for Ford Europe, the author stresses that, to be successful, the implementation of multi-skilling must be a carefully managed, evolutionary, step-by-step programme taking at least five years. More...
	1/1/1994 Plant Monitoring and Diagnostics in a B. Eng. Degree Course The design, development and implementation are described of a final year degree-course module entitled ‘Plant Monitoring and Diagnostics’. This optional module forms an integrated part of the Mechanical Engineering degree course at Manchester University, and attempts to complete the range of a graduate’s knowledge, ability and skill that is demanded by modern industry. More...
	1/1/1994 Multi-Skilling in UK Industry: A Discussion Paper It is explained (a) why multi-skilling has become a necessity for many industries, especially those involved with ‘high-tech’ applications such as micro-processor control or IT, (b) what multi-skilling means, (c) how it should be implemented and (d) how the necessary training should be organised. More...
	1/1/1994 Manufacturing Maintenance – A Survey of Current UK Practice Data has been collected from a small but carefully selected sample of manufacturing companies with the intention of providing a representative snapshot of the current position, procedures and practice of maintenance within this sector of UK industry. More...
	1/12/1993 Health Assessment of Royal Naval Diesel Engines Using Expert Systems The first year’s experience is reported of a three year trial of an Expert Decision Support system for handling oil data-acquired at sea - on the health of naval diesel engines. More...
	1/12/1993 Improving the Quality of Condition Based Maintenance-The Way Ahead It is argued that CBM is of greatest financial benefit when it is applied to problems of complex plant, and that the consequent high quality diagnosis and recommendation needs, in addition to the sensory data from the condition monitoring itself, a considerable body of information on operating specifications, maintenance history, regulations etc. More...
	1/12/1993 Major Evaluation Criteria for Real Life Maint Expert Systems. The AITEST Experience The authors have acquired several years' experience of developing and applying an expert system tool for equipment diagnosis and maintenance support. More...
	1/12/1993 A Self Learning Diagnostic System In 1989 Schiphol Airport was about to install an advanced, fully automated, baggage handling unit and it was felt that a large problem could occur, because no experience with this new type of installation was then available. It was decided that a self-learning diagnostic expert system, ie one that would be capable of continually learning from the eventual experience of running the installation, might be beneficial in supporting its maintenance. More...
	1/9/1993 Applying a Maintenance Management System Offshore This paper describes the selection, and development for offshore use by BP Exploration, of an ‘off the shelf’ MMS package. The reasons for this choice are reviewed and the current state of its application briefly outlined. More...
	1/9/1993 SEDIMAHE: An Expert System to Help the Maintenance of Machine Tools The current state of development is described of an Expert System for the detection and diagnosis of abnormal conditions and incipient failures in machine tools. More...
	1/9/1993 Computers as a Basis for Maintenance Information Drawing upon his long experience, both as a manager of computerised maintenance management information systems (MMIS’s) and as an independent IT consultant, the author spells out the basic requirements for such systems and the practical benefits that can be derived from their application. More...
	1/9/1993 The Implementation and Development of a Computer Aided This paper describes the experiences of the Resources Recovery Board, a department of the States of Jersey administration, during the selection, implementation and development of a computer assisted maintenance system. The detailed functionality of the system is not discussed but pitfalls and areas requiring careful consideration are highlighted. More...
	1/6/1993 Optimum Maintenance and RCM The principles of Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) are reviewed and the various problems in its practical application discussed in some detail. More...
	1/6/1993 Pen-&-Paper vs Pen-Based Computer-A Comparison of Methods used for Asset Data Collection Data collection and updating data to maintain its accuracy and reliability is an important and potentially costly business. More...
	1/6/1993 Total Plant Performance Management Total Plant Performance Management (TPPM), a holistic approach to this task, addresses the design, purchase, installation, operation and maintenance phases of the plant life cycle. TPPM methodology is outlined and some of its achieved benefits reported, illustrated examples being mainly drawn from experience in the US steel industry. More...
	1/6/1993 Searching for the Optimum Plant Maintenance Through Application of Maint Concepts A very full discussion is presented of the problems and challenges involved in working towards an optimal plant maintenance strategy. More...
	1/3/1993 National Maintenance Strategies: Way Out for Developing Countries It is claimed that the under-performance of many industries in the developing countries is very largely attributable to inefficient maintenance of plant and equipment. More...
	1/3/1993 How Planned ‘Protective Maintenance’ Improves Plant Productivity Planned ‘Protective Maintenance’ - The repair of wear surfaces by means of specialised welding and other metal deposition techniques - is shown to be highly cost effective, reducing overall maintenance costs and greatly prolonging plant life. More...
	1/3/1993 Vibration Monitoring of Low Speed Hydrogenerators: Some Technical Aspects The use of expert systems in vibration monitoring of rotating machinery, for incipient failure detection and diagnosis, is a procedure adopted in various branches of industry. More...
	1/3/1993 Maintenance Cost Estimation in Mechanical Design and Modification Maintenance cost is usually a significant proportion of the life cycle cost of mechanical items, such as machines, or vehicles. Choosing the right construction at the design and procurement stage is therefore of utmost importance and should not only allow for purchase cost, but also for future maintenance cost. More...
	1/12/1992 Reliability Audits of Existing Plant Reliability assessments of already operating plant are generally referred to as reliability audits. A feature of such audits is that analysis of the plant’s maintenance experience can provide plant-specific input to the assessment. More...
	1/12/1992 The Maintenance Organisation Fingerprint A worldwide comparison of power station maintenance has been undertaken by the author, who, in the June issue of ‘MAINTENANCE’, reviewed the resulting survey of the literature on this topic. More...
	1/12/1992 Getting Started in RCM The implementation, and preliminary results, of an introductory series of pilot studies of the application of RCM to power station plant are reviewed. More...
	1/12/1992 Optimising Preventive Maintenance Using RCM The step-by-step process of introducing an RCM regime - one which consists of the least, but most effective, maintenance that needs to be done in order to achieve design levels of reliability - is described. More...
	1/9/1992 The Uses and Limitations of Total Productive Maintenance In this paper he presents what he has perceived to be its essential characteristics (as deduced from his observations in both its country of origin, Japan, and in Japanese owned companies elsewhere, such as Nissan UK and also reviews experience of applying the methodology in various European Manufacturing Companies. More...
	1/9/1992 A Maintenance Information Resource This article examines the basis for the implementation of maintenance information systems, considering why they are required, how they are selected, and the general results that they achieve. More...
	1/9/1992 How to Choose between the Wide Range of Computer Packages for Maintenance Management The problems of choosing a suitable off-the-peg computerised maintenance management system are fully discussed. A systematic selection procedure, used quantitatively weighted criteria, is then carefully explained and comprehensively illustrated. More...
	1/9/1992 Human Aspects of Maintenance A previous paper (by the present authors in the June issue) described how plant and machinery maintenance could be made easier, safer and more reliable through better machine maintainability features. In particular, the Bretby Maintainability Index was described as a method which has been successfully used by designers and buyers/users alike to assess the maintainability of a full machine and to identify where improvements are likely to be the most cost-effective. This paper builds upon this work and describes how human error can further reduce the quality, reliability and safety of maintenance operations. More...
	1/6/1992 Maintenance Management - Building the Bridge to Excellence This paper uses the experience of nearly 700 AMIS audits, conducted over the past three years, to identify how a well structured self-appraisal can make a major contribution to achievement of genuine short and long term improvements in maintenance management. More...
	1/6/1992 The Reduction of Plant Maintenance Costs Through Design The objective of this paper is to describe specific ways by which professional design engineers may reduce process plant maintenance costs. More...
	1/6/1992 Power Station Maintenance - A Survey of the Literature A worldwide comparative study of power station maintenance techniques has been carried out. More...
	1/6/1992 The Bretby Maintainability Index The paper opens by addressing the general problems of equipment maintainability in terms of the high cost to industry in both financial and health and safety terms. The paper then outlines the limitations of the information currently available to the designer and purchaser and develops the need for a comprehensive method of assessment and evaluation. More...
	1/6/1992 European Federation of National Maintenance Soc, Maintenance & Availability in Norwegian Industry This paper briefly summarises the results of an investigation into maintenance and availability in Norwegian industry. The project was initiated by the Norwegian Society of Maintenance Engineers (NFV), and was carried out by NTH/SINTEF between May and December 1991. More...
	1/3/1992 Maintenance Aspects of a Production Employee Programme This case study illustrates how, in a carefully phased programme involving a substantial scheme of on-site and off-site training, many of the responsibilities and tasks which were formerly the preserve of the specialised engineering and maintenance functions can be successfully cascaded down to the manufacturing function. More...
	1/3/1992 Condition Monitoring - A New Approach Although there are many types of commercial bearing condition monitoring equipment none has been successful over the wide range of applications met within practice. A new technique for the detection of bearing defects, a High Frequency Acoustic Emission (HF-AE) method, has therefore been developed at the SKF Engineering and Research Centre (ERC). More...
	1/3/1992 Maintenance Excellence - A Comparative Survey of Leading European Plants The results of a survey, comparing maintenance performance in a number of leading European plants (especially in the process section) are reviewed. More...
	1/3/1992 Bridging the Production-Maintenance Gap In many UK companies production and maintenance have traditionally worked against, rather than with, each other. More...
	1/12/1991 Terotechnology The development, from its inception, of the management philosophy of terotechnology is described. Although the term ‘terotechnology’ is seldom used and little understood today, the associated practice remains highly relevant to today’s organisations and projects. More...
	1/12/1991 In Search of Maintenance Organisation Excellence Current UK trends, in design and development of strategies for organising industrial maintenance, have been studied. Information gathering was aided by applying the author’s maintenance management audit methodology. More...
	1/12/1991 The Manchester Maintenance Management Examination, 1991 Once again we offer for your seasonal entertainment and enlightenment the latest end-of-course examination taken by those candidates for Manchester degree in Engineering Manufacture and Management (most of them, in fact) who opted to take its Maintenance management module More...
	1/12/1991 Computerised Maintenance Management Systems - The End of the Line Although there are some sixty computerised maintenance packages to choose from, few are true maintenance management information systems (MMIA). More...
	1/9/1991 The Total Cost of Maintenance Maintenance is viewed from the financial angle and the paper focuses on the value of identifying its ‘Total Cost’ which is seen as the sum of the direct costs of carrying it out and the indirect or hidden costs, of downtime, scrap, poor running etc and also of intangibles such as inability to implement advances, and hence more profitable, manufacturing techniques. More...
	1/9/1991 Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) at Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd TPM is explained via a case study, which also shows how TPM has been modified by a UK based Japanese company for use in the UK environment. More...
	1/9/1991 Priority Based Budgeting Priority Based Budgeting is a technique applicable to all business activities. More...
	1/9/1991 Just-In-Time The JIT concept, its principal aims and the benefits that it can confer, are explained. It is then illustrated via a description of its implementation in a small manufacturing company. More...
	1/6/1991 New Thinking and Methods in Maintenance Management New tolls and techniques to assist maintenance managers are constantly emerging. More...
	1/3/1991 On the Ship Crew Maintenance Organisation This paper analyses the organisational aspects of a ship’s crew. In particular, crew size and task structure are analysed in the perspective of ship maintenance. The goal of this exercise was to diminish ship operational costs. This analysis domain has been constrained to merchant vessels, but it can be extended if needed to other units. More...
	1/3/1991 A Maintenance Management Tool This paper presents a structured Maintenance Management Tool (MMT). There is a great need for such tools although very few integrated efforts were made in the past. More...
	1/3/1991 Maintenance Management in Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia has amassed a large capital-intensive infrastructure. Operation of this infrastructure is a continuing financial and economic commitment. More...
	1/3/1991 RCM Closing the Loop Between Reliability & Operational Reliability Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) is a method for maintenance planning developed within the aircraft industry and later adapted to several other industries and military branches. More...
	1/3/1991 OREDA as a Tool for Maintenance Optimisation The OREDA project, founded in 1981, has become one of the main sources of reliability data for Oil and Gas exploration and production activities. In its first phase, OREDA produced the Handbook of Offshore Reliability Data. More...
	1/3/1991 Which ‘Cure’ will make me better? Technical and managerial strategy for maintenance are reviewed in outline. More...
	1/3/1991 Automatic Malfunction Diagnosis by On-Line Expert System for... In many underground workings, either for mineral production or for creating lines of communication, mobile machines have to operate under conditions that are very difficult for personnel and equipment. More...
	1/12/1990 Industrial Maintenance in Developing Countries Operating industrial plant in the conditions prevailing in most developing countries, is a technical challenge. More...
	1/12/1990 Analysis of Surface Fatigues in Rolling Bearings by Analytical Ferrography This work is concerned with the prediction of surface fatigue failures in rolling bearings by analytical ferrography. More...
	1/12/1990 Effective Use of the Computer in Managing Maintenance Through operating AMIS, the national maintenance management audit service, MCP has been able to obtain a broad feel for the general state of maintenance management in the UK. More...
	1/12/1990 A Maintenance Management Examination More...
	1/9/1990 Controlling the Maintenance Effort Over the last twenty years numerous authors have proposed indices for measuring the effectiveness of industrial maintenance departments. More...
	1/9/1990 Maintenance Improvement Programmes (Part 3 of a three part series) In this, the last of a series of three articles, the author outlines the Terms of Reference for a Maintenance Improvement Programme based on an initial short, sharp audit identifying basis strengths and weaknesses. More...
	1/9/1990 The Challenge of Change for Building Maintenance Organisations in the Public Sector in UK Public sector building maintenance organisation, in the UK, are having to adjust to such major reforms as Local Management of Schools, the Community Charge and new Capital Expenditure Controls. More...
	1/9/1990 Reliability Centred Maintenance - A Tool for Higher Profitability The operating costs over the life time of a plant or equipment can be significantly influenced by the effectiveness of the preventive maintenance that is performed. More...
	1/9/1990 Developing & implementing a Maintenance Strategy for Heavy Industrial Process A case study is presented of the application at a heavy industrial plant, viz a Continuous Slab Caster, of Kelly’s ‘Top Down, Bottom UP’ approach to strategy development. More...
	1/9/1990 Expert Systems for Diagnosis and Maintenance Problem diagnosis and maintenance prescription for new generations of mechanical systems is a very complex engineering task. More...
	1/6/1990 Use of Health Indices for Condition Monitoring of Machine Tools An overview is presented of modern techniques being applied to condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of machine tools. More...
	1/6/1990 Management of Major Turnarounds Management of a major turnarounds is a complex project which require a very systematic disciplined approach. This paper indicates the methodology adopted by ICI to ensure that key objectives regarding duration, cost, quality and safety are met. More...
	1/6/1990 Expert Systems for Service in ABB After describing expert systems, and knowledge - based systems, developed by the author’s own company for specific trouble-shooting applications, a generally applicable logic for structuring expert systems to aid fault finding in technical plants or processes is advanced. More...
	1/3/1990 Maintenance Policy and Management (Part 2 of the three part series) After discussing the relationships between company policy, manufacturing strategy, production planning, equipment reliability characteristics and maintenance policy, the author (leader of the recent DTI survey of UK maintenance practice) examines the need for, and benefits of, maintenance management information systems, planned preventive maintenance, and condition monitoring. More...
	1/3/1990 Key Factors in Improving Maintenance Skills After outlining the origin of the traditional maintenance specialist the author explains that maintenance, although trade and profession related, is not actually a trade or profession in itself. More...
	1/3/1990 Automation Concepts in Maintenance Execution The development, over the last thirty years, of maintenance philosophy in general, and of maintenance automation systems in particular, is reviewed. More...
	1/3/1990 Changing the Culture - Before and After Prior to 1988 the author’s company operated ‘fire-fighting’ maintenance. In that year, and as part of a drive to improve quality, productivity and motivation, the company commissioned an AMIS audit of the effectiveness of their maintenance function. More...
	1/3/1990 Maintenance & Profitability - (Part 1 of a three part series) The Manufacturing and Information Technology Division of the Department of Trade and Industry commissioned March Consulting Group to undertake a study of maintenance within manufacturing industry. More...
	1/12/1989 Engineers in Maintenance This paper discusses the introduction of sophisticated technology into industry and how this has affected the maintenance organisation, citing BHP Steel, Port Kembla, as an example. More...
	1/12/1989 Project Control, System and Implementation An explanation is given of how the techniques of project control system selection and system implementation were used to achieve a successful, within budget, 'crashed timescale' implementation of an effective work planning and cost control system. More...
	1/12/1989 Maintenance Engineering in Europe - The Scope for Collaborative Technology Transfer & Joint Venture The March Consulting Group, who are shortly to report on a DTI-sponsored study of UK maintenance practice, are engaged on an EEC sponsored study of the scope for collaborative R and D initiatives aimed at improving maintenance effectiveness throughout the EEC. More...
	1/12/1989 Enhanced Maintenance Management Through Increased Knowledge A case study is presented of the implementation of a computerised maintenance management system for a large, geographically dispersed, company based in the Middle East and which already operates on ICL Mainframe computer. More...
	1/9/1989 Monitoring Materials in Electric Power Installations The increase in the unit power of hydro and thermal turbine installations in the electric power system of Yugoslavia has made it necessary to introduce a modern, economical, approach to equipment maintenance. More...
	1/9/1989 Human Factors in Maintenance: A Case Study The benefits resulting from a wide range of measures for improving maintenance resources, organisation, control and manpower utilisation had appeared to reach a plateau. More...
	1/9/1989 The Skills Crisis - How Continuing Education and Training Can Help Long term trends indicate a decline in recruitment to initial technical education and training programmes while, at the same time, the demand for technically skilled manpower is expected to grow. More...
	1/9/1989 The Predictive and Preventive Maintenance of Electrical Machinery The frequencies, causes and characteristics of the most commonly occurring faults in electrical motors and power electronic components, and the various methods available for effective condition monitoring of electrical motors, are reviewed. More...
	1/9/1989 The Skills Crisis - An Answer Technical advance, increased international competition and demographic trends are creating the potential for crippling skills shortages in the UK in the years immediately ahead. More...
	1/6/1989 Towards Better Maintenance Management The right strategy for maintaining and replacing the assets used to generate profits is of vital importance to every manufacturing company’s future competitiveness in European and world markets. More...
	1/6/1989 The life Cycle Cost Process and its Application Financial decisions are often taken with incomplete data or inadequate analysis. Life Cycle Costing (LCC) provides an opportunity to make rational financial decisions based on the best available data. More...
	1/6/1989 Case Studies in Energy Efficiency Improvement Three case histories are given to illustrate the application of an important principle in practical energy efficiency improvement. More...
	1/6/1989 Introducing Philosophy of PC Network Based Maintenance to a Slab & Plate Steelworks A case study is presented of the successful development and implementation, at a large steelworks of a maintenance management system based on networked PCs. Flexibility and speed of development are stressed. A case study is presented of the successful development and implementation, at a large steelworks of a maintenance management system based on networked PCs. More...
	1/6/1989 The Specification & Justification of a Computerised Maintenance Management System Detailed advice, based on the experience of the author’s company, is given regarding the specification, justification, selection and implementation of a computerised maintenance management system. More...
	1/6/1989 A Predictive Maintenance Success with an Air Turbo Compressor A case study is presented of the successful use of vibration spectrum analysis, firstly to anticipate the onset of a serious mechanical problem with the speed control and oil pump drive of a turbo compressor, and secondly to diagnose the source of the problem as being in either the gear teeth or supporting bearings of a gear shaft. More...
	1/3/1989 Condition Monitoring in the FMMS Environment A number of existing milling and routing machines have been converted into a Flexible Milling Manufacturing facility aimed at unmanned, round-the-clock, operation of maximum reliability and availability. This full case study focuses on the design of an effective maintenance regime, based around anticipated failure modes and using a mix of preventive and condition-based maintenance. More...
	1/3/1989 Vibration-based Predictive Maintenance Systems for Rotating Machinery Introducing a vibration based predictive maintenance system for monitoring the condition of rotating machinery gives both production and maintenance personnel lead time to avoid unscheduled plant outage. More...
	1/3/1989 Condition Monitoring of Machine Tools Techniques suitable for various aspects of machine tool condition monitoring are discussed. More...
	1/3/1989 How to Win Budget Approval for your Maintenance Management System The demand for increased productivity is requiring the maintenance function to adopt ever more sophisticated management techniques. Effective implementation of one of these, computerisation, requires a level of business understanding hitherto absent from most maintenance departments. More...
	1/3/1989 Costing Maintenance The maintenance manager should be seen as being the asset manager, who can make major contribution to the achievement of company profit if he has access to relevant, appropriately structured, job-costing information. More...
	1/12/1988 Effective Maintenance Management: Hallmarks for Success Maintenance should be considered as a value added contribution to corporate profit, not as an operating overhead. The paper reviews the various ways in which this contribution may be achieved and the broad areas - organisation character, physical asset suitability and operation, maintenance strategy - in which improvement plans need to be developed. More...
	1/12/1988 The Design, Development and Installation of Paperless Planned Maintenance System - A Case Study A case study of the introduction of a computerised planned maintenance system is presented. More...
	1/12/1988 The Corrosion, Protection & Maintenance of Structural Steelwork The corrosion of steel structures is influenced by their environment (where time of wetness and level of atmospheric pollution are the critical factors), their design, their protective systems and their maintenance. A survey of this problem is followed by an outline of the effective approaches to maintaining such structures in different situations. More...
	1/9/1988 Multi-skilling - Optimising skills in the work place The two terms 'multiskilling' and 'flexible working' have become fashionable management jargon in recent years, but in many people's heads they are synonymous with cost reduction and potential conflict. More...
	1/9/1988 Maintenance Systems Auditing - An aid to effective maintenance management A procedure is outlined for auditing the management systems of an industrial maintenance department. Models are shown which can be used to analyse and map the key elements of such a department. More...
	1/9/1988 Condition-based maintenance - The way ahead The widespread adoption of maintenance based on condition has been held back by administrative and technical problems associated with the Condition Monitoring. More...
	1/9/1988 Building management - Computers, a help or a hindrance? This paper briefly explores the uses of computers in building management/maintenance, the historical developments, and the dilemmas facing 'facilities managers' and their advisors. More...
	1/9/1988 Vibration Monitoring of Bore Centreless Grinding Machines Monitoring vibration can help to diagnose faults which affect the work quality of bore centreless grinding machines. More...
	1/6/1988 Managing Successful Change The pace of technological change is accelerating and manpower management plays a key role in coping with this. More...
	1/3/1988 The Approaching Crisis In those industries falling within the scope of the EITB both the total numbers employed, and the proportion of craft employment, have fallen steadily. Factors influencing the wide divergence between companies, in the proportion of the workforce engaged in maintenance, are identified. More...
	1/3/1988 Computerised Maintenance Applied to the Power and Building Engineering Services Plant at BT This paper discusses the introduction of a computer-based maintenance package and its use in the maintenance management of power and building engineering services plant in British Telecom. More...
	1/3/1988 Engineering Cost Optimisation Justifying Engineering Expenditure in the Anbsence of Good Data The identification of maintenance policies (e.g. selecting periodicities for cleaning, repair or replacement) which are likely to minimise overall costs need not always wait upon the collection and analysis of plant performance history. More...
	1/3/1988 Coping with Technological Change? This paper reviews how engineering companies are meeting the changing skill requirements of maintenance staff caused by technological change. More...
	1/3/1988 Engineering Maintenance Organisation Performance - an Assessment This paper reviews quantative evidence, drawn from the first six years of a ten-year programme of research into the costs and benefits of changes in the organisation and job content of engineering maintenance. More...
	1/3/1988 Multi-skilling - It's Development and Impact on Industry A trade union view is presented. It is explained why the introduction of microprocessor technology is forcing the drive towards multi-skilling, especially in maintenance. More...
	1/3/1988 Introducing Database Management Systems into Logistics Support Despite the increasing use of computers since the 1950's, costs and complexities of hardware and software have tended to limit their utilisation. Improvements in the last decade have transformed the situation for logistics support. More...
	1/3/1988 Asset Care - Maintenance Plus Corporate Responsibility In an earlier paper ('Maintenance, June 1987) on the role of CAMM systems the author touched upon the current and potential role of maintenance management in the corporate structure, and the effect of computer technology on this role. This topic is now developed further, emphasis being placed on the impact on this role of the access to information provided by new computer hardware and software tools. More...
	1/12/1987 Energy and Maintenance Management in the Process Industries - Controlling and Improving Energy Usage Via plant modification and process change, informed by and accompanying and comprehensive energy, audit, a mineral extractive industry has achieved not only considerable savings in energy usage but also maintenance benefits (eg in reduced plant cool-down times). More...
	1/12/1987 Practical Lessons in Use of Energy Management Systems for Improving Overall Management of Bldg Srvcs The principal areas of building services cost reduction available with advanced control systems are reviewed and also the UK experience with such systems. More...
	1/12/1987 Energy and Maintenance Management in a Manufacturing Industry A case study is presented of the installation of a computerised energy management system for a large works manufacturing electrical power generation plant. More...
	1/12/1987 Practical Aspects of Integrated Energy and Maintenance Management Systems - Refrigeration Systems Two cases studies involving refrigeration plant illustrate that it is only thought the understanding of the basic technical principles underlying the design of plant, combined with careful measurement of appropriate parameters of performance, that the most effective maintenance policies and procedures can be identified More...
	1/9/1987 Expert Systems for Building Services Expert Systems are briefly explained and the background to their development outlined. More...
	1/9/1987 Unifying the application of expert systems and conventional software in maintenance manaement This paper summarises some personal impressions of applying Expert Systems techniques in aircraft maintenance engineering in the Royal Air Force. More...
	1/9/1987 Case Study: Maintenance Expert Systems for a Casing Complex Expert Systems are briefly explained and the background to their development outlined. More...
	1/9/1987 Expert Monitoring Systems in Nuclear Power Stations This paper discusses the application of simple expert system techniques to monitoring and fault diagnosis on the Active Maintenance Facility (AMF) of Hunterston B Nuclear Power Station. More...
	1/9/1987 Data as an asset It is explained that data should be viewed as an asset that has most, if not all, of the attributes we assign to physical assets such as items of plant, and that older paperwork systems for handling maintenance data 'imprisoned' this asset ie rendered it difficult to access for plant - wide managerial analysis. More...
	1/6/1987 Factory Engineering Purchasing Control with your own Micro for less than £3500 A short case study is presented of the benefits that were achieved by replacing a manual purchase order control system by a simple micro- computer based operation. More...
	1/6/1987 The Changing Role of Computer Based Maintenance The background to the formation of the CAMM users group is described and the group's initial objectives and findings reviewed. The author identifies the outstanding problem in this area as being that of accommodating the very divergent needs (as regards function, software and hardware) of the potential users of computer systems. More...
	1/6/1987 CAD/Database Developments in Inspection, Repair and Maintenance (IRM) Some of the problems of transferring data from the design and engineering phases of offshore plant to its operating and maintenance phase are examined. More...
	1/6/1987 PMS 857 - A Computer Application for the Management of Maintenance in Generating Stations The Electricity Supply Board, Ireland, is at present commissioning a 900MW coal-fired station at Moneypoint on the Shannon estuary. The ESB has developed its own computerised Maintenance management system, PMS 857, to assist in optimising the safety, reliability and efficiency of the new station. More...
	1/6/1987 Maintenance in Today's Car Body Manufacturing This paper gives a brief insight into what maintenance was like prior to the introduction of new technology, what was felt necessary to maintain the new facilities and equipment and what changes were required to improve maintenance in the light of three years experience of Sierra production More...
	1/6/1987 Expert Systems for Maintenance Engineering Expert Systems (ES) are a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) technique which promises enormous advantages to manufacturing industry. Many people interested in ES now have the same goal. How can expert systems be applied to 'real life' problems? More...
	1/6/1987 The Implementation of, and Operational Experience with, a Large Maintenance Management System A commercially - supplied computer system in support of maintenance management has been successfully implemented in seven Shell Operating Companies. It is an option for several others. More...
	1/3/1987 Building and Estates Maintenance Objectives The reasoning leading to the decision to reorganise the maintenance function for the very large building stock owned by Surrey County Council is explained. More...
	1/3/1987 New materials and new technologies - their effect on building design and maintenance Attention is drawn to the lack, in the UK, of a systematically collected and carefully appraised database on the long-term behaviour of new materials and building techniques More...
	1/3/1987 Tendering for Maintenance - the Consultant's Role The role of the consulting engineer in providing information and advice on the operation and maintenance of buildings is highlighted More...
	1/3/1987 Renewal of a Heating System at British Aerospace Bristol The renewal of the heating system for an aircraft assembly shop of very large volume is described. More...
	1/3/1987 Building Component Durability and Maintenance The information needed for meaningful prediction of the durability of building materials and components is outlined and the difficulties of achieving such a prediction explained. More...
	1/3/1987 Project Management of Repair and Refurbishment Work This paper discusses the additional skills and facilities required for a modern project management approach to repair and refurbishment work. The practical advantages of such an approach are also reviewed. More...
	1/12/1986 Condition Monitoring Methods and Economics The economics of the decision as to whether or not to introduce condition monitoring are reviewed and a strategy is outlined for selecting the equipment which is to be monitored and the techniques which will be the most appropriate. More...
	1/12/1986 How to use Maintenance Information to Cut Costs Collecting information on maintenance does not in itself improve performance or reduce downtime. This paper explains how to choose the appropriate information and to use it to identify problems and initiate improvement More...
	1/12/1986 Optimising Operating Conditions of Rolling Element Bearings using SPM This paper describes how the use of the SPM method can be taken one step further than merely the avoidance of unexpected failure or premature replacement. More...
	1/12/1986 On-Condition Information Management System The last twenty years have seen an explosion in machinery monitory techniques. New sensors and new data logging and analysis systems mean that almost any physical attribute of a machine can be instrumented and monitored. More...
	1/12/1986 Acoustic Emission as A Simple Sensor Acoustic Emission (AE) the generation of transient stress waves by material in distress, is explained and the technology of its monitoring (in order to provide the basis of a simple sensor with diverse applications) is proposed and discussed in considerable practical detail. More...
	1/12/1986 Advanced Maintenance on Ships This paper describes the development of a maintenance and management system using condition and performance monitoring as the main influence in determining when maintenance should be done. A summary of fifteen years operating experience of this system is given. More...
	1/9/1986 Comparing Management Performance 'Management Ratios’ are defined and their use as a measure of business success, and as indices for management control, explained. More...
	1/9/1986 Using Indices to Monitor Maintenance Performance The 'state of the art' of Performance Indicators is reviewed, and their application in both profit-making and non-profit making organisations discussed. Their use in maintenance management is described by a full practical example. More...
	1/9/1986 Controlling Maintenance Costs The objectives, principles and problems of maintenance budgeting are reviewed. More...
	1/9/1986 Establishing a Maintenance Plan, Organisation Schedule and Control System A case study is presented of the introduction of a rationalised system of maintenance management for a clay mining company operating at a number of geographically distributed sites. More...
	1/9/1986 What Should Maintenance Cost Maintenance problems are reviewed and principles established for deriving a practical strategy for bringing maintenance costs (direct and in-direct) under control. A successful implementation of strategy is described. More...
	1/6/1986 Expert Systems in Plant Engineering The next decade is likely to see significant changes in the methods of use of computers in all field of industry. Some of the new techniques will involve artificial intelligence and one such form is currently described under the heading of ’Expert computing systems’ and describes how they can benefit fault-finding in complex plant engineering situations. More...
	1/6/1986 The Application of Computer Systems in Manufacturing Maintenance and Process Information and Control Specific computer systems applications, principally in the areas of plant-breakdown repairs and production-operation in manufacturing plants within the Mars Group, are described and points of interest highlighted. The benefits derived, and the problems of system development, are stressed More...
	1/6/1986 Computer Aided Information Retrieval and Plant Maintenance A case-study illustrates how the diagnosis of, and prescription of correction action for, recurrent faults in a complex-engineering plant may be facilitated by the adoption of a CAR (Computer-Aide Retrieval from micro-film) system for storing and accessing failure information. More...
	1/6/1986 On-Line Maintenance Management Maintenance Planning and Scheduling with a Relational Database A case study of the computerisation of the planning and control of offshore plant shutdowns shows the considerable benefits derived from a very flexible methodology. More...
	1/6/1986 A Developing System for Maintenance Management The development, introduction, utilisation and benefits of a mini-computer based maintenance management system, at a large paper mill in the North of England, are described. More...
	1/3/1986 Development and future of Computer-based Systems for Maintenance Control Computers were introduced in the process industries only a couple of decades ago. More...
	1/3/1986 The Computer aided Maintenance Management (CAMM) Group The CAMM Group, first formed in 1977, has regularly surveyed the needs of maintenance managers with regard to the computerisation of maintenance operations. More...
	1/3/1986 Maintenance Management through Effective Information Systems The practice of maintenance is evolving from black art to precise science. To achieve this latter status reliable, concise and easily accessible data is essential. More...
	1/3/1986 Computer Applications for Condition Based Maintenance For certain items of plant, condition based maintenance (CBM) is now widely accepted as a more appropriate strategy than fixed time maintenance. Computers are now involved in all aspects of CBM More...
	1/3/1986 Systems in Maintenance Expert systems are defined and explained. More...
	1/3/1986 Developments in Computer Applications for Maintenance Management The increasing importance of engineering maintenance and the resultant major requirements of the maintenance control function in general, and of computerised systems in particular, are highlighted. More...

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	30/5/2013 Rising To The Challenge Phil Carr, sales engineer at Byworth Boilers, received an unusual request last year when the boiler manufacturer was asked to replace the boiler in the steam tug Challenge. More...
	30/5/2013 Gas Absorption Heat Pump Training Bosch Commercial and Industrial Heating has launched a new gas absorption heat pump training course, which combines both theory and practice and covers all aspects of the application of gas absorption heat pumps, including assembly, installation, fluing, control options, legislative requirements and typical suitability. More...
	30/5/2013 Talking Shop “Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the one’s they have had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.” I doubt author HG Wells had design engineers in mind when he said this, but after a recent fascinating conversation with the brains behind an innovative British start-up company, I think design engineers fit the bill pretty well. More...
	29/5/2013 Get Chiller Efficiency Under (Remote) Control The new TFC remote control from IsoCool allows Eurochiller TFC water process chillers to be monitored around the clock from any office located within a 100m radius. More...
	29/5/2013 Simple, but Powerful - A New Variable Speed Drive for HVAC Applications WEG has launched a new frequency inverter, the CFW501, which has been designed to meet the needs of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) industry. More...
	29/5/2013 Back to Basics With such an array of options for fire suppression, making the right decision can be a challenge, especially when there are so many factors to consider: health and safety, preventing damage to equipment, the environment, plus of course cost. More...
	29/5/2013 The Clean Oil Concept Can Save Money As modern machinery has evolved so have the lubricants and lubrication systems improved to ensure that it runs smoothly. Today, more than ever before, an increasing demand is being put upon lubricants in terms of operating temperatures, loads and performance. More...
	29/5/2013 Values That Drive Continuous Improvement Cultural values are often the domain of human resource professionals and large corporations, but Derek Hill takes a look at his own company's corporate values and shows how they can be used to drive continuous improvement. More...
	29/5/2013 Boosting Efficiency With Better Stores Management Efficiency and productivity in your maintenance, repair and operations activities is maximised when you have streamlined stockholding in the storeroom and established a well-documented operating process. More...
	29/5/2013 Instrument Hire Boosts Inspection Efficiency As tooling co-ordinator for Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL), Barry Lee ensures that his company’s engineers are provided with the best available technologies for their aircraft test and inspection work. More...
	29/5/2013 Special Purpose Bonding For most applications a standard adhesive will often create an effective bond, but a wide range of adhesives is now available for ‘special needs’ applications when specific performance characteristics are required. More...
	29/5/2013 Value Driven Maintenance ’What is actually the added value of maintenance?’ is a frequently heard question in boardrooms the world over. Even though maintenance is often critically important, few maintenance managers are able to answer the question convincingly, especially when they are asked to express the benefits in terms of economic value added or shareholder value - the language increasingly being spoken in boardrooms all over the world. More...
	29/5/2013 Large Scale Media Filter Refurbishment Any large scale industrial and manufacturing plant will have a substantial number of media filters to service and maintain which, for a multitude of reasons, may need extensive refurbishment in order to bring them back to optimum performance. More...
	29/5/2013 Five Top Tips for Maintaining Plate Heat Exchangers Heat exchanger specialist, Moody, has released their five top tips for maintaining plate heat exchangers which are used extensively in modern processing plants in the dairy, ice cream, brewing, soft drinks, and food industries for pasteurisation and other heating or cooling duties. More...
	29/5/2013 Standard Practice in Asset Management The British Standards Institute’s (BSI) PAS 55 is helping organisations to improve risk management, compliance and customer satisfaction in asset management. More...
	29/5/2013 False Economy First of all, we have to try to understand why alternative service providers can appear attractive to end users. In most cases, there are two simple drivers, lower cost and local presence. Taking these two reasons in turn, first let us look at the argument for lower costs. On the face of it, of course an alternative service provider can appear less expensive than an OEM service organisation. More...
	29/5/2013 To Heat or Not To Heat? - That Is the Question The argument over the pros and cons of whether or not to install heated water safety showers has possibly run its course with the ANSI.Z358.1-2009 standard now recommending ‘15 minutes tepid water drench time' for all emergency showers. More...
	29/5/2013 Still Confused By The 'New' ATEX Directives of 2006? Suppliers of components for industrial systems frequently get telephone calls from customers who are having difficulty interpreting the rules laid down by the ATEX 95 equipment directive 94/9/EC and the ATEX 137 workplace directive 99/92/EC - both issued in July 2006 - stipulating stringent requirements for the electrical and mechanical components of instruments used in hazardous areas, where even the slightest spark could cause a devastating explosion. This is not particularly surprising, since the ATEX Directives could be described, in a context less sensitive about the use of language, as a minefield. More...
	29/5/2013 You Can't Ignore the Signs Organisations currently buying or replacing safety signage are being warned by workplace equipment supplier Slingsby to ensure their new signs comply with proposed legislation that could see all workplace signage standardised throughout Europe. More...
	28/5/2013 IET/ IAM Annual Conference The IET/IAM Asset Management conference attracts 250 asset management professionals, representing asset intensive industries, the public sector and academia from around the world. More...
	29/4/2013 Testing Times Resilience testing of standby power equipment ensures that vital electricity supplies are maintained in the event of an emergency. However, routine ‘on-load’ testing can be expensive while ‘off-load’ testing can potentially damage valuable equipment. More...
	12/4/2013 Bosch gas absorption heat pump training Bosch Commercial and Industrial Heating has launched a new gas absorption heat pump training course specifically aimed at installers, engineers and specifiers. The one day course is conducted by the manufacturer’s team of technical training officers, all of whom have vast amounts of experience as heating technicians. More...
	30/3/2013 All Round Protection... And Cost Savings Andy Anthony, managing director of Monitran, discusses the role of vibration monitoring in a predictive maintenance programme and illustrates this with reference to desalination plants. More...
	28/3/2013 Williams F1 Sponsorship Agreement Continuing with the Formula One theme, the Williams F1 Team is pleased to announce that it has signed a new partnership with arc welding equipment manufacturer, Kemppi. More...
	28/3/2013 Vulcan XH558 Update In our Nov/Dec 2012 issue we reported on the efforts being made to keep the last airworthy Vulcan bomber flying and we can now reveal that research to extend its flying life has taken a significant step forward. More...
	28/3/2013 Eclipse® Model 706 Advanced Guided Wave Radar Transmitter for Level Measurement & Control Magnetrol® pioneered guided wave radar (GWR) by introducing the ECLIPSE® Model 705 two-wire, loop-powered transmitter for use in industrial liquid level applications. More...
	28/3/2013 Talking Shop Earlier today the inaugural winners of the £1m Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering were announced. More...
	28/3/2013 Differences Between Steam Generators and Boilers A conventional steam boiler is a specifically designed pressure vessel, containing a level controlled volume of water. The heat source (burner) is kW rated to the maximum designed output of the boiler from and at 100oC, often with a burner modulation facility to accommodate variations in steam load, to a turn down ratio of 3:1 and in larger boilers 5:1. More...
	28/3/2013 Keeping The Generating Industry Safe Keeping the lights on in the UK is going to take billions of pounds in investment during the next decade as the Government attempts to overhaul the energy infrastructure to cope with environmental targets and rising electricity demand. More...
	28/3/2013 Why Does Training Fail? Gary Wyles, managing director of Festo Training and Consulting gives ten reasons why some training programmes do not deliver the improvements that were expected. More...
	28/3/2013 Online Guide to Mounting Bearings Bearing supplier Schaeffler has launched its new Mounting Toolbox – a webbased guide on how to install rolling bearings. More...
	28/3/2013 The Veterinary Wholesaler By overhauling the bulk store at its National Distribution Centre, the UK’s largest veterinary products wholesaler has avoided the need to acquire extra storage space, improved picking rates and made significant savings in manpower More...
	28/3/2013 Why Does Asset Management Need To Be 'Smarter'? Deb Chakraborty, an associate partner in IBM's Asset Management Solutions group, and Robert Garratt, an executive partner in IBM’s Operations and Supply Chain practice, explain how the necessary link between the organisational strategic plan and the asset management function can be created. More...
	28/3/2013 A Change For All Seasons Tightening of European energy efficiency legislation for air conditioning may be seen by some as more red tape but new rules introduced in January could enable building services engineers help their clients make substantial energy savings, says Graham Wright, legislation specialist at Daikin UK More...
	28/3/2013 Ex d Enclosures: Understanding The Standards When specifying explosion-proof (Ex d) enclosures to house electrical apparatus for use in explosive atmospheres, engineers must ensure they fully understand the implications of modifying the enclosure as part of the certified equipment prior to and after installation, says Toni Ott, Manager Test, Certification and Patents at Cooper Crouse-Hinds GmbH (Please note: the following content is applicable for the European Union and similar regulated markets). More...
	28/3/2013 Evaporative Cooling Systems Evaporative cooling can reduce energy costs by 90% compared to traditional air conditioning systems, with a return on investment of less than 3 years whilst saving power and providing massive carbon savings. Here Alan Beresford from EcoCooling discusses the use of Evaporative coolers in industry and the energy savings involved. More...
	28/3/2013 Wrap Up Warm to Cut CO2 and Energy Costs Valves are used throughout the process industry to regulate and control the rate of material flow, whether solid, liquid or gas, as well as regulating and controlling pressure. Coming in many shapes, sizes and levels of complexity, some are mission critical components relied upon in hazardous situations, while others have a much more mundane use. More...
	28/3/2013 How Formula 1 is Driven by Data One of the areas where maintenance and engineering disciplines merge most closely with design is in the ongoing lifecycle development of a product. Not only will product X typically require routine and unplanned maintenance, there may well be a number of revisions/improvements to the design of product X over its lifetime to either improve its functionality and effi ciency, and/or ensure regulatory compliance. More...
	28/3/2013 Cast Iron Boilers - An Alternative to Condensing Systems Whilst the merits of condensing boilers are often talked about in industry circles, Geoff Hobbs, business development director at Bosch Commercial and Industrial Heating explains why cast iron boilers should not be overlooked when considering replacing or upgrading heating and hot water systems. More...
	28/3/2013 Wireless Vibration Monitoring - improves reliability & enhances safety Taking advantage of the ease in which new measurement devices can be introduced to an existing Smart Wireless network, our Barking Power Station is using a wireless vibration transmitter to monitor rotating equipment remotely and in real time. More...
	28/3/2013 At The Heart of DGI's Process Formed in 1986, Domestic & General Insulation (DGI) is one of the largest insulation specialists in the UK and has, since 2005, been manufacturing its own cavity wall bead at its Worcester-based Thermabead facility. More...
	28/3/2013 Why Operator Asset Care is Critical to Success Roy Davis, managing director of Manufacturing Productivity Improvements (MPI Ltd), in conjunction with MCP Consulting and Training, says that the effective management of company assets is essential More...
	28/3/2013 Trunnion Bearing Replacement on a BOS Plant Tata Steel (Port Talbot) has two BOS steel making vessels, each having a capacity of 330 tonne, so the outage of just one would result in significant lost revenue. This case study illustrates how a supplier and customer worked together to successfully repair one of the steel making vessels. More...
	28/3/2013 Closing Date Current apprentices and employers across the country are being encouraged to enter the 2013 National Apprenticeship Awards. More...
	28/3/2013 Tracking the Changing Nature of Asset Management The role of the asset manager is changing. With continued pressure on capital budgets, growing numbers of organisations are exploring not only new financing models but new ways of procuring and maintaining assets – including the use of third parties. More...
	28/3/2013 A Guide to Material Selection for Rolling Bearings By offering a wide choice of materials and heat treatments for rolling bearings, performance and operating life can be optimised, even for the most demanding industrial applications, says Dr Steve Lacey, engineering manager at Schaeffler UK. More...
	21/3/2013 SKF equips teams in 2013 Formula One season With the start of the Formula One World Championship, SKF announces that it will equip the majority of the F1 cars with wheel bearings, making the company the leader in this bearing application for Formula One single seaters. More...
	28/1/2013 Static Electricity On The Rise As Winter Temperatures Fall Static electricity is one of those invisible problems that often goes undiagnosed and causes manufacturers costly headaches in terms of lost production and product rejects. And it is an issue that will only get worse as winter sets in and temperatures continue to plummet because cold air holds less water vapour, which means it is less conductive and, therefore, encourages static electrical conditions. More...
	28/1/2013 Why Calibration Matters Calibration can be as confusing as it is important. In simple terms, calibration involves the comparison of a test instrument against a known standard in order to determine whether the instrument under test is reading to its correct accuracy specification. More...
	28/1/2013 Outsourcing Building Services Maintenance for Pump Systems Water is a critical resource within buildings; we need it for drinking, washing, heating and sanitation. Then there is cleaning and cooking. It is, therefore, essential that all pump systems associated with water services operate at 100% availability - a tall order, but one that many facilities and building services managers have to deal with. More...
	28/1/2013 Atlas Copco Ranked 18th Atlas Copco has again been recognized as one of the world's most sustainable companies by being ranked number 18 on the Global 100 list. More...
	28/1/2013 Improve Equipment Reliability and Increase Production with Bel-Ray Aluminium Complex Greases When faced with the challenge of finding a grease that will maximise equipment performance and lower operational costs, Bel-Ray can provide the solution for maintenance and engineering staff. With its comprehensive line of aluminium complex greases, Bel-Ray provides lubrication solutions that will increase efficiency and decrease downtime, returning more profit to the bottom line. More...
	28/1/2013 What is Lean Maintenance? Far from being a necessary evil, experience shows that maintenance engagement with a lean manufacturing programme accelerates the development of an organisation's lean capability which is why many forward looking managers are asking the question. More...
	28/1/2013 Affordable Oil Condition Monitoring Oil condition monitoring and analysis play an important role in a Condition Based Maintenance Strategy. Martin Williamson, lubrication consultant at KEW Engineering, argues that recent technological advances in rapid on-site oil checking should encourage companies to make more use of oil condition information and analysis. More...
	28/1/2013 Redundant Asset Management Planning Richard Vann, the managing director of engineering consultancy RVA Group, gives an insight into the decommissioning of plant and machinery, based on specialist in-house and external engineering experience, sector knowledge and commercial awareness. More...
	28/1/2013 Machinery High-Pressure Washdown Challenges Paul Laidler, business director for machinery safety at TUV SUD Product Service, a global product testing and certification organisation, explains why you need to go further when purchasing machinery, which will be subjected to regular high pressure washdowns, than the category IP69K defined in IEC 50529. More...
	28/1/2013 The Missing Link? Leaf chain - used on the masts of forklift trucks - withstands the full load exerted on it via the forks and carriage arrangement and is a safety critical component. More...
	28/1/2013 Combilift's Powerful Solution Collaboration by two companies known for innovation in their own particular sectors has facilitated the production and transportation of a revolutionary new design of wind turbine tower. Materials handling provider Combilift and Danish Andresen Towers pooled expertise to address the logistical challenges involved in manufacturing and moving extreme lengths of product which form the basis of Andresen's new tower construction. More...
	28/1/2013 Dynamic Carton Live Storage Live storage can make businesses more competitive and existing static racking can be converted to achieve this, writes Edward Hutchison, managing director at BITO Storage Systems More...
	28/1/2013 IMHX 2013 Predicted To Be 'The Best Ever' If you only visit one logistics event in 2013, it has to be IMHX. Held at the NEC in Birmingham from 19-22 March, the show will feature over 400 exhibitors and the organisers are confident that it will be the best ever. More...
	28/1/2013 It Fell Off The Back Of A Lorry Every year more than 1200 people are injured in the UK, and millions of pounds are lost, because goods are damaged in transit. More...
	28/1/2013 The Birth Of The Unknown Warrior It is often said of busses that you wait for ages and then three come along at once. In 2013 the same will be true of trains, in this case steam locomotives with no less than four new build steam locomotives being placed on their wheels during the year and a further two in the pipeline. More...
	28/1/2013 A Bespoke Oil-Mist Extraction System The application of metal working fluids during the cutting of metal by high speed machinery produces a hazardous oil-mist which can be inhaled by the machine operator and associated staff. More...
	28/1/2013 Russian Deal Sheffield Forgemasters position as Russia's leading steel rolls supplier has been reaffirmed after securing a contract worth 3 Million Pounds with the country's largest steel company, Severstal. More...
	28/1/2013 Talking Shop I have been reflecting on the phrase 'an accident waiting to happen' since someone 'accidentally' drove into the back of the stationary car I was a passenger in. More...
	28/1/2013 Urgent Review Called For Anti-Legionella Water Treatment As from 1 February 2013, the marketing and use of elemental copper as a biocide has been banned under the Biocidal Products Directive and the national Biocidal Products Regulations 2001, which implement the Directive in Great Britain. This action has been taken at EU level because no manufacturer supported the biocidal use of elemental copper during a review period that ended in September 2011. More...
	28/1/2013 AVT Joins AES AV Technology, has been acquired by AES Engineering from the Ionix Group as part of AVT's on-going strategy to expand its operations internationally. More...
	28/1/2013 Energy Loss Due To Mechanical Steam Trap Failure Condensate traps are commonly employed to remove condensed water from steam utilising plant and equipment and, in this context, are normally referred to as steam traps - of which there are many different designs More...
	28/1/2013 Tip Top Compressed Air Compressed air is said to be responsible for approximately 10 per cent of the power usage in the UK and other mature economies. In conjunction with BEKO Technologies, a leading company in the treatment of compressed air and management of condensates, we have put together a list of top tips to help businesses improve the efficiency of their compressed air usage. More...
	28/1/2013 New Standards for Asset Management New international standards for promoting best-practice asset management - the ISO 55000 series, due for publication late 2013/early 2014 - build on the success of the PAS 55 standard, which provides a robust framework for organisations to optimise the cost, risk and performance efficiency of their assets over their lifecycles. More...
	28/1/2013 The Elephant In Your Storeroom Are you blind? Different people in your organization look at the maintenance storeroom and do not see what you see. And it is frustrating! To explain this let us revisit the story about six blind men examining an elephant. materials and spare parts More...
	28/11/2012 How Much of Your Heat Goes Up The Chimney? Flue gases exhausting from your boiler or CHP system are taking away significant amounts of energy. Potentially, 15-20% of your energy is literally 'going up in smoke' explains Grant Bailey, global corporate account director with Thermal Energy International. This means that along with other losses from the system, for every pound spent, only 55p of energy is actually being utilised. More...
	28/11/2012 Tipperary Co-Op It's over forty years since SAACKE started working with the Tipperary Co-Op in Ireland. The days of boilermaker Danks of Netherton, founded in 1840, are gone but it was to provide a burner for one of their shell type boilers that SAACKE were first approached in the 1970s. More...
	28/11/2012 Selecting The Right Gasket In many instances, gasket failure arises because the material, shape or thickness of the component has been incorrectly specified. However, more than 300,000 tonnes per annum of product loss through leakage could be prevented simply by better gasket selection, says ERIKS. More...
	28/11/2012 Wireless Troubleshooting A new wireless condition monitoring system simplifies troubleshooting by enabling up to 10 simultaneous electrical and temperature wireless measurements - giving companies the opportunity to install a continuous online monitoring system at a relatively modest cost. More...
	28/11/2012 Is It Better To Be Employed or Self-Employed? A recent report on the UK's self-employed workforce has revealed that the average self-employed engineer earns well over double the national average salary. The Boox Report found that 79% of the self-driven engineering workforce earn over the UK's 26,093 pounds average, with the average self-employed engineer salary hitting an astonishing 64,000 pounds per year - the second largest average salary in the freelance sector (after banking). More...
	28/11/2012 Grease Incompatibility - The Latent Threat To Production Grease incompatibility has serious implications for the performance of rolling bearings and in the following article, bearing manufacturer NSK outlines the problems that can be encountered and explains how they can be avoided. More...
	28/11/2012 Electricity At Work Compliance - Risk-Based Maintenance Is The Key Jim Wallace of Seaward Electronic looks at the need to maintain electrical safety in the workplace and highlights the main changes included in the new IET Code of Practice (CoP), including a renewed emphasis on risk assessment. More...
	28/11/2012 The Benefits of Renting Vehicles and Plant Equipment John Ellis, the managing director of Nexus Vehicle Rental's, discusses the merits of renting vehicles and plant equipment over outright ownership to ensure downtime for repairs and maintenance is kept to a minimum. More...
	28/11/2012 Which Accelerometer Should I Choose? Selecting the best accelerometer for a specific predictive maintenance application can be a daunting task, even for the most seasoned of engineers. Typically, the process can be filtered down to a series of qualifying questions. By discovering the answers to these, as it applies to a particular application, the best vibration monitoring solution can be identified. More...
	28/11/2012 The Role of Supply Chain in Effective Maintenance and Asset Management Manufacturers face constant pressure to reduce costs and optimise productivity to maximise profitability. Manufacturing efficiency is integral to overall competitiveness - a key part being a company's maintenance and asset management strategy. Central to this is the effective sourcing and management of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) spares, the supply chain for which has a direct relationship with a company's ability to optimise manufacturing operations. More...
	28/11/2012 A Fan of Efficiency The Ecodesign Directive 2009/125/EC (more commonly known as the ErP Directive) is designed to set minimum efficiencies for a range of products and is being introduced in phases (or 'Lots'). On the 1st January 2013 it will introduce specific efficiency values for fans with input powers ranging from 125kW to 500kW (covered in ENER Lot 11). Subsequently, even higher minimum efficiency levels will be introduced from 1st January 2015. More...
	28/11/2012 Fit and Forget Unlike the world of politics where the transfer of power is highly visible, when it comes to the world of high power industrial transmissions, the drive shaft that transfers power between the torque supply and the driven device are seldom visible and often go unnoticed. And, at the heart of keeping drive shafts spinning trouble free, lies the humble disc coupling. More...
	28/11/2012 Renewing A Wrecked Steel Mill Coupling - For Half The Cost of Replacement Dan Kocel, global metals industry manager with Kop-Flex - Emerson Industrial Automation's Power Transmission Solutions division - describes how the damaged bore of a cast-steel coupling was "replaced" with a splined-in insert to maintain the original rating and restore correct diameter. More...
	28/11/2012 Raising The Bar For Boiler Efficiency Twenty years ago industrial boiler design was driven mainly by the demands of equipment buyers and specifiers for boilers which produced maximum output at minimum purchase price. While fuel was relatively cheap and emissions not high on the agenda, purchase price probably was the most important factor to consider. More...
	28/11/2012 Failure Is Not An Option... ...A famous quote from Gene Kranz during the Apollo mission in 1970. Fast forward over forty years and this approach is still adopted by engineers working across all industries, not just space. More...
	28/11/2012 Maintaining An Aviation Classic Many of us of a certain age, most probably but not exclusively the men, would have gone through a phase of desperately hoping to fi nd an Airfix kit of our favourite plane underneath the Christmas tree. It was the closest many of us would ever get to these aviation classics and arguably one of the most legendary planes of all was the Avro Vulcan bomber with its iconic, swooping delta-wing profile. More...
	28/11/2012 Talking Shop There is nothing like Christmas to focus one's mind on the festive subject of product lifecycle management. More...
	28/11/2012 The First Fire Is The Deepest One of the first compressor fires I visited was at ARC Conbloc in Ongar. The site engineer wanted me to take a look at the aftermath of a small fire being investigated by the local fire officer and the company's insurers. A compressor house containing a 22kW Howdenair screw compressor had caught fire and the insurance assessor was asking some awkward questions. More...
	28/11/2012 Moving On To Pastures New To consolidate the landmark achievement that over 300 billion production units have now been validated and protected by their label and date code verification software Olympus Automation have recently appointed a specialist Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) business manager, Alan France. More...
	28/11/2012 Remanufacture Your Bearings Even the best bearings will wear out eventually but many are being scrapped when they could be remanufactured to reduce plant costs and boost sustainability, says Phil Burge, Communication Manager for SKF. More...
	28/11/2012 Want To Stay Competitive? - Think Apprentice Employers in the engineering and manufacturing sectors should tap into the young talent that could make a big difference to their businesses, says Richard Heighington, Chief Executive of SETA, the Southampton Engineering Training Association. More...
	28/11/2012 The Expert Guide - To Choosing and Wearing Personal Protective Equipment Ian Samson, EMEA Regional Training Specialist for DuPont, discusses the selection and correct procedures for the donning and doffing of personal protective coveralls. More...
	28/11/2012 Use Your Head To Stay Safe Engineers at Lanes for Drains, the UK's largest independent specialist drainage company, are using their heads when it comes to best practice for health and safety - because vital information that could help save their lives is now kept on their hats. The company has invested in an innovative, emergency ID system that works by storing personal health information on the hard hats of all operational staff. More...
	28/11/2012 A Uniform Solution For A Uniform Business Cintas, one of America's largest providers of specialised business services, knew that it faced a number of operational challenges and needed a new computerised maintenance management system (CMMS) to support its services to over 900,000 businesses. More...
	28/9/2012 Latest Analytical Technology Ensures Biogas Efficiency Anaerobic digestion (AD) relies on the ability of specific micro-organisms to convert organic material into a gas that can be used to generate electricity. However, these bacteria require specific conditions to function effectively and instrumentation specialist, Hach Lange, has developed instruments to enable AD plants to maximise efficiency. More...
	28/9/2012 Increasing The Life Expectancy of Plant Alan Robinson, managing director of Arc Energy Resources discusses the benefits of weld overlay cladding to protect the internal surfaces of pipe systems, plant and equipment from corrosion; and reviews the options available using corrosion resistant alloys. More...
	28/9/2012 Upgrading Hydraulic Valve Actuators Karl Morgenbesser, Managing Director of kmo turbo GmbH, says that hydraulic actuators are often used in combination with turbo compressors, and with steam and gas turbines. More...
	28/9/2012 What Is The Secret of Successful Outsourcing A survey in 2003 identified that 66% of businesses failed to get the expected benefits from outsourcing. In 2005 a separate survey 2005 identified that less than half of outsourcing users are satisfied and only 6% are very satisfied. In 2012 despite the fact that most companies expected an increase in outsourcing, the average contract duration was less than a year. More...
	28/9/2012 Controlling Your Environment Nu-way is celebrating its eightieth year in the heating industry, in which time, as a supplier, manufacturer and repairer of oil, gas and dual fuel burners, it has built up a wealth of knowledge. Here, Tim Scarlett, Nu-way's service director, outlines the importance of training. More...
	28/9/2012 The Guiding Force Without the right management, process improvement is not possible. Here, John Morgan explains seven steps to ensure that your processes are managed effectively. More...
	28/9/2012 TPM Makes Significant Strides - In The Journey Towards Operational Excellence Phil Tugwell, an Associate Director with MCP Consulting & Training, describes how Total Productive Maintenance is transforming the maintenance operations within an international pharmaceutical organization. More...
	28/9/2012 Proactive Maintenance To avoid costly down-time arising from the failure of equipment and machinery ('assets') many companies still use a system of scheduled or routine maintenance, which is also known as Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM). More...
	28/9/2012 Scaffolding For Non-Scaffolders Rob Bokros, managing director, of Lobo Systems explains the benefits of having your own, customised access system. More...
	28/9/2012 Process Heating That Is Kinder To The Environment In an age where traditional fuel sources are understood to be finite, energy prices are rocketing and environmental considerations are being taken seriously by industry at large, a huge amount of time, expertise and resources has gone into finding alternative ways to raise heat for industry. More...
	28/9/2012 Maintenance and Facilities Management In The Cloud In the current economic environment organisations need to improve the performance and up-time of equipment. Yet a lack of capital budget continues to constrain the vast majority of maintenance and facilities teams: how can any organisation maximise asset value when critical information is recorded manually? More...
	28/9/2012 When A 'Hole In The Wall' Becomes A Hole In Your Pocket Howard Dry Parker, international technical advisor to Motivair Compressors Ltd, discusses how companies can work towards minimising the total cost of ownership of their compressed air system. More...
	28/9/2012 Paralympics 2012 Legacy New prosthetic technologies will improve the lives of countless disabled people across the globe as well as set loose a new wave of ethical difficulties for sporting regulators, according to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. More...
	28/9/2012 2013 International Safety Awards The British Safety Council has launched its 2013 International Safety Awards scheme to recognise good health and safety management. More...
	28/9/2012 Empowering Business to Succeed All over the country, households will be bracing themselves for the day when the central heating needs to be switched back on. More...
	28/9/2012 Bel-Ray Open Gear Lubricants For Kilns, Mills and Other Rotating Equipment At the heart of many process plants around the world, including cement, minerals and metals processing plants, are mills, kilns and other open-gear driven rotating equipment. More...
	28/9/2012 Talking Shop In an object lesson that size is not everything; consider for a moment the contrasting levels of news interest in 2 champions - 2 triumphs of British design and engineering. More...
	28/9/2012 Are All Refrigeration Compressed Air Dryers The Same? Annually, in the UK, thousands of products are sold to dry compressed air, the most common of which is the refrigeration dryer More...
	28/9/2012 Welding and Quality Management to EN 1090 European Standard EN 1090 is making a lasting change to the business model of metalworking firms and of all parties affected. It also gives firms opportunities to put themselves on a sound footing for the future, and to differentiate themselves from competitors by having clear quality standards. More...
	20/9/2012 Moody Direct Spares & Service Launch a Plate Heat Exchanger Leak Detection Test Service Moody Direct Spares & Service has launched PasTest2000, a non-destructive leak detection testing service for pasteurisers and plate heat exchangers. More...
	20/7/2012 Good Shaft Alignment Practice - Will Generate 1000's of Pounds of Savings Every Year The biggest contribution an engineer can make to improving the lifetime operating cost of pump systems is to align them correctly in the first place. Pruftechnik's Paul Poste explains how you can calculate the cost savings. More...
	20/7/2012 Regulating the Future In recent years, the focus of EU legislation in the compressed air industry appears to have turned firmly towards energy management. Here Greg Bordiak, Technical Officer at the British Compressed Air Society (BCAS) discusses the latest regulations affecting both manufacturers and employers. More...
	20/7/2012 Time is Running Out Following the news that four high profile firms, including the makers of Schwarzkopf hair products and Pritt Stick, have been fined a combined total of 99,000 GBP for reporting failures under the 2011 Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) scheme, time is running out for organisations to meet the 31st July 2012 CRC deadline. More...
	20/7/2012 Monitoring the Lifeblood of Your Operation Manufacturing and engineering companies, now more than ever, are putting heightened emphasis on their maintenance strategies in order to maximise the efficiency of existing equipment and reduce costs. More...
	20/7/2012 Alarm Management at Drax Power Station Following on from the news, in our May/June issue, of the 100 million pound upgrade to its six turbines, we now look at the procedures Drax Power Station have put in place to ensure that this investment will continue to enable the power station to reliably supply 7% of the UK's electricity needs. More...
	20/7/2012 Inadequate Support for Electricity Storage Technologies The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, in a new policy statement launched at the end of May, claims the UK Government is failing to provide sufficient support for electricity storage technologies. More...
	20/7/2012 Case Study: A Bespoke Extraction System Auto Extract Systems (AES) were contacted by an oil exploration company to help them remove the health risk from a production process resulting in high levels of fumes and dust. More...
	20/7/2012 Dust In The Factory - Still An Explosive Topic Gordon Low, marketing segment manager at COOPER Crouse-Hinds, discusses how factories can reduce the risk of dust explosions occurring in the workplace and the latest standards relating to explosion-proof electrical equipment installed in these areas. More...
	20/7/2012 Multigas Monitors and the Growth of FTIR With almost 20 years of both commercial and research experience in the detection and monitoring of gases, Dr Andrew Hobson from environmental monitoring and occupational hygiene testing equipment specialist Quantitech explains the growing adoption of multiparameter monitoring with FTIR (Fourier transfer infra-red) technology. More...
	20/7/2012 Engineering - The Preferred Career Choice? As a major employer in Llanelli, automotive component manufacturer Schaeffler UK is continually investing in its people and working closely with the local community, a key part of which is supporting their local college to change young peoples negative perceptions of engineering. More...
	20/7/2012 Condensate Recovery Turns Water into 'Gold' All steam systems produce condensate, which is hot, chemically-treated water that can be re-used in the boiler. A new condensate recovery system can quickly pay for itself and even an existing system can be upgraded with the latest techniques to reap substantial financial gains, explains Paul Mayoh at Spirax Sarco More...
	20/7/2012 Thermoelastic Stress Analysis Thermoelastic stress analysis is a full-field, non-contact experimental method which allows the user to determine the distribution of stress on the surface of a component experiencing cyclic loading. Here, Dr Richard John Greene from Strain Solutions Ltd, describes the use of a thermal imaging camera to monitor energy flow processes in a wide range of components and materials, including strain and fatigue performance tests, where the camera is used to detect very small changes in the temperature of materials or components as they are bent, fabricated or work-hardened. More...
	20/7/2012 New Doors Offer Fire Resistance and Cleanroom Performance UK industrial door manufacturer, Stertil Stokvis, has recently boosted its range of doors with the launch of a new model designed to offer greater fire resistance plus a second new door for cleanroom applications that gives greater protection against airborne contamination. More...
	20/7/2012 Thermal Imaging - Its Still Evolving Flir's Andrew Baker looks into his crystal ball and gives a perspective of areas where he thinks there is scope for further development in thermal imaging technology More...
	20/7/2012 Talking Shop Since writing up the headline interview with Stephen Tetlow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, BMW announced it is to invest £250m over the next three years in the UK to expand production of the Mini at its factories in Oxford, Birmingham and Swindon. This follows the £500m investment announced last June and will add to the 5000 British workers already involved in Mini production. Perhaps most telling was the comment by BMW that its investment demonstrates its commitment to Britain ‘as a vital manufacturing base.’ More...
	20/7/2012 The Effect of Gravity on the Accuracy of Inertial Sensor Calibration The calibration accuracy of many sensors (eg accelerometers, inclinometers, force transducers and load cells) is dependent upon the gravitational force which changes across the Earth’s surface and may translate to a variation of up to 0.5%. More...
	20/7/2012 The Rise and Rise of Thermography Will Russell has been a technical support engineer with instrumentation specialist Ashtead Technology for over seven years, and in the course of this article he will discuss the reasons behind the growth in demand for infrared cameras and offer guidance on how to conduct an effective survey. More...
	20/7/2012 Belts That Drive Efficiency By understanding the different ways in which belts are constructed to satisfy a range of performance requirements and applications, engineers can install components that will maximise efficiency and significantly cut maintenance costs, says Phil Burge, country communication manager for SKF. More...
	20/7/2012 Specifying Centrifugal Pumps for Industrial Applications Jeremy Salisbury of Brammer, a leading supplier of maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) products and services, examines the key criteria in the selection of centrifugal pumps and the options available to specifiers and designers for creating an energy-efficient, low maintenance, pumping solution. More...
	20/7/2012 Molson Coors Brewery Moves Up A Gear Molson Coors, the UK's largest brewer, has recently installed 20 Comer gearboxes to power the rotating floors of four germination vessels at its Shobnall Maltings site in Burton-upon-Trent. More...
	20/7/2012 To RFID or Not to RFID? Is a recession the right time for maintenance and asset managers to get involved with RFID? Yes, argues Andrew Davies, managing director of 4hSolutions, who says that payback on savvy RFID investments can be 12 to 18 months or less. And improving safety and productivity is also on the agenda - all as long as implementation is done carefully. More...
	20/7/2012 Ignore M&E Costs At Your Peril! Property and building consultancy Tuffin Ferraby Taylor (TFT) is warning prospective property owners to look more closely at the potential 'under the bonnet' maintenance costs of industrial and commercial propertyies mechanical and electrical systems as part of the technical due diligence (TDD) process. More...
	20/7/2012 Iriss Introduces The Platinum Series of Polymer Infrared Windows With the launch of its new Platinum Series infrared inspection windows IRISS poses an important question. Why choose a traditional, limited life fluoride crystal window that could shatter when there is now a superior and clear, polymer alternative that is impact resistant and which carries an unlimited lifetime warranty? More...
	20/7/2012 We Need A Strong Manufacturing Sector You could be forgiven for thinking there is a boom in manufacturing and engineering with a surplus of skilled workers ready to take advantage of all these new opportunities. An open day held by Nissan in Sunderland to recruit 200 specialist staff in areas including engineering, maintenance and logistics, ended up attracting over 1500 people. More...

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