Machinery Component Maintenance and Repair

Fred K. Geitner, Heinz P Bloch

• Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780128187296
• eBook ISBN: 9780128187302
• Edition: 4
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Mechanical Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Machinery Component Maintenance and Repair, Fourth Edition, Volume three in the Practical Machinery Managment for Process Plants series provides the latest research and industry approaches in easy to understand, bite-sized chunks. Extending the life of existing machinery is the name of the game in the process industries, and this classic text is still the best, most practical and comprehensive source for doing just that. This updated edition is completely revised and updated throughout, especially in sections regarding Maintenance Organization and Control for Multi-Plant Corporations, Repair and Maintenance of Rotating Equipment Components, and Protecting Machinery Parts Against Loss of Surface.

• Describes step-by-step procedures to guide readers through a best practices approach to machinery maintenance
• Helps readers optimize their maintenance plan to reduce downtime in plants and extend the service life of machinery
• Provides a wealth of practical technical data and advice on crucial subjects, such as machinery alignment and maintenance programming

Part I

Background to process machinery maintenance programming

Chapter 1

Machinery maintenance: An overview

Fred K. Geitner; Heinz P. Bloch

Abstract

Maintenance and repair of machinery in a petrochemical process plant is simply defined as defending machinery equipment against deterioration. Four basic maintenance strategies are available for this task: Preventive, predictive, breakdown or demand based, and “bad actor” or weak spot management.

After a short definition of the machinery maintenance problem the authors set the stage for the following chapters of this book. They then remind the reader of the fact that machinery maintenance cannot be looked at in isolation but that it is part of an overall goal to save costs and enhance profitability while striving to maximize safety, reliability, maintainability, and availability. Additional concept definitions pertaining to process machinery are illustrated, such as overhaul and repair, replacement, preventive vs. predictive or condition-based maintenance, the importance of failure analysis, and troubleshooting. The chapter ends with a listing of state-of-the-art tools and instrumentation required for various monitoring methods applied in the operation and maintenance of process machinery.

Keywords

Maintenance and repair of machinery; Petrochemical process plant; Deterioration; Strategies; Optimization; Maintenance philosophy; Availability; Process machinery management

Maintenance and repair of machinery in a petrochemical process plant was defined in a preceding volume as simply “defending machinery equipment against deterioration.” [1] Four strategies within the failure-fighting role of maintenance were defined:

• • Preventive
• • Predictive
• • Breakdown or demand-based
• • “Bad actor” or weak spot management

Machinery maintenance can often be quite costly in a petrochemical plant operation. Prior to the publication of the first two volumes of this series, very few studies were available describing quantitative or objective methods for arriving at the optimization of the four strategies [2]. Though our readers should not expect detailed contributions to those subjects in this volume, we did opt to include an overview section describing the maintenance philosophy practiced in a large multiplant corporation that makes effective use of centralized staff, computerized planning, and tracking methods.

What, then, can our readers expect? After a short definition of the machinery maintenance problem, we will highlight centralized maintenance planning. We will then guide our readers through the world of machinery maintenance procedures by identifying the what, when, where, why, how, and—sometimes—who of most maintenance and repair activities around petrochemical process machinery. We ask, however, that our readers never lose sight of the total picture. What, then, is the total picture?

It is the awareness that true cost savings and profitability can only be achieved by combining machinery reliability, safety, availability, an...

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• About the authors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Part I: Background to process machinery maintenance programming
• Part II: Alignment and balancing
• Part III: Maintenance and repair of machinery components
• Index