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'Process Plant And Equipment UPTIME'

By Mike Sondalini

150 Articles for Students & Machine Operators

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150 Total Productive Maintenance Articles
ESBN: C60-59-5y38-80C2
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'Process Plant And Equipment UPTIME' Best Practice Workforce Training Program - 150 Total Productive Maintenance Articles for your Machine operators and workforce TPM training and development. This 150 article program, is part of the TPM lean manufacturing training series that was specifically designed for equipment operator training. Even though some are mechanical engineering articles, they are written with the production machine operator in mind. Great to supplement or start your own in-house TPM manufacturing training programs.

 

These articles where written for use in your own in house employee training program, and written so all of your workforce can understand, not just your maintenance department. Print and distribute throughout your plant, these best practice maintenance and engineering articles so the knowledge transfer will result in continuous process improvement for your company. Instructors can incorporate these article in their curriculum for students so they learn additional real-world equipment maintenance and engineering knowledge too.

 

Full of best practice maintenance, engineering, reliability and fixed asset management practices for the workforce, and great for students of mechatronics. They can also be used to supplement your cross training program for your machine operator, industrial tradesman, millwright, technicians and field service technician, as well as refreshers and additional insight for your current maintenance and engineering team.

 

As part of your Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) program, print and distribute these articles throughout your facility so relevant employees have access. Best to distribute articles at regular intervals, as not to overwhelm your machine operators with too much information at one time. But another approach would be print all as a reference library employees has access to any time they want.

 

The author of these training articles, Mike Sondalini, has more than 35 years in engineering and maintenance, which spans from mechanical engineering, strategic asset management to rotating equipment reliability. He is currently a world renown maintenance, reliability, Lean Six Sigma and quality system consultant. 

 

About 40 cents ($0.40) per maintenance article, to teach Engineering, Reliability, Maintenance and Fixed Asset Management to all your facility's workforce! Aren't your employees worth that? The ROI your company will see will be astronomical!

 

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Bucket Elevator Design Notes

Bucket Elevator

Protecting bearings in dusty places.

Bulk Materials

Changing the service duty of a pump.

Fluid Mechanics

Flange bolting-up practices.

Plant Engineering

Open trickle chutes for wet and sticky products.

Bulk Materials

Maintenance costs capital moneys.

Asset Management

Tracking large rotating equipment.

Bulk Materials

Ultrasonic level detectors - Consider these experiences.

Instrumentation

Chemical corrosion.

Chemistry

Shaft sealing with a packed gland.

Pumping

Some quality paradigms are expensive.

Asset Management

Rotating tyre and trunnion wear.

Bulk Materials

Bitumen roadway repairs.

Civil Engineering

Grease, use the right one for the job.

Lubrication

Fault finding techniques.

Maintenance

The continuous improvement of Thomas Edison.

Asset Management

Vibration and out-of-balance equipment.

Mechanics

Get mechanical seals working properly.

Pumping

Effects of running centrifugal pumps on the right end of the pump curve.

Pumping

Pressure equipment inspections.

Process Equipment

Net positive suction head.

Pumping

How control valves operate.

Process Control

Bridging in silos and hoppers.

Bulk Materials

Glued and applied coatings.

Chemistry

Vibration and its control.

Mechanics

Corrosion in agitated conditions.

Process Equipment

Keep gearboxes running.

Mechanics

The importance of fit, tolerance and clearance.

Maintenance

Bucket elevator experiences.

Bulk Materials

Preheat for welds and when to apply it.

Welding

Can your spare parts be made locally?

Maintenance

Failure analysis of gearbox, fan, bearing & shaft.

Asset Management

Planning maintenance well.

Asset Management

Job types on work orders.

Maintenance

Isolation valves for different chemical services.

Process Equipment

Polyethylene - its properties and uses.

Plastics

Performance reviews.

Man Management

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling.

Maintenance

Valuable secrets in every work order report.

Maintenance

Welding plastics.

Plastics

Making stairs, walkways and platforms.

Plant Engineering

Radar level detectors.

Instrumentation

Agitator shafts steady bearing problems.

Process Equipment

Job descriptions tell tradesmen what to do.

Maintenance

Heating liquids by steam sparging.

Process Equipment

Separation and segregation of dangerous goods.

Safety

Differential pressure transmitters.

Instrumentation

Magnetic drive (magdrive) pump experiences.

Pumping

Equipment identification tags save time.

Maintenance

Sizing pipelines easily.

Fluid Mechanics

Confined space entry practices.

Safety

Magnetic flow meters.

Instrumentation

Angular contact bearing use.

Machinery

Preventive maintenance stops breakdowns.

Maintenance

Fiberglass construction and repairs.

Process Equipment

Shaft alignment on pumps.

Pumping

Control systems can trick operators.

Process Control

Shaft coupling selection issues.

Machinery

Use written work instructions.

Maintenance

Centrifugal pump cavitation.

Pumping

Stress in metals.

Metallurgy

Pneumatic actuator experiences.

Pneumatics

Locating pressure relief valves.

Process Equipment

Use words on work orders instead of code numbers.

Maintenance

How fluid flows in pipes.

Fluid Mechanics

Equipment and plant layout for improved maintenance.

Maintenance

Capacitance level probes.

Instrumentation

Spherical roller bearing use.

Machinery

Watch keeping - added value from operators.

Maintenance

Bronze, use the right one in the right place.

Metallurgy

Converting bearings from oil bath to greased lubrication.

Machinery

Temperature sensing elements.

Instrumentation

Changing out dust collector bags.

Bulk Materials

Components of an effective maintenance system.

Maintenance

Electric motor problems.

Electrical

Pulse jet dust collectors.

Bulk Materials

Plastic air pipelines for instruments and control valves.

Pneumatics

Peristaltic (Hose) pump problems.

Pumping

Have good valve decontamination practices.

Safety

Metal corrosion basics.

Chemistry

Vee-belt drives.

Machinery

Water hammer and its control.

Fluid Mechanics

Helical rotor pumps - benefits and limitations.

Pumping

Predictive maintenance, the way of the future.

Maintenance

Vertical bulk liquid steel storage tanks.

Process Equipment

Metal fatigue failure.

Metallurgy

Proximity switches.

Process Control

Chain drives.

Machinery

How accounting policies affect maintenance costs.

Maintenance

Safety shower installation.

Safety

Cooling tower design, operation and use.

Process Equipment

Static electricity basics.

Electrical

How O-rings work.

Hydraulics

What is Life cycle costing?

Plant Engineering

Steam trap operation and selection.

Plant Engineering

Hazardous areas for dusts and flammables.

Electrical

Using pH meters.

Instrumentation

Sealing threaded connections properly.

Plant Engineering

Air Compressor Operation & Care

Plant Engineering

Heat Exchanger Design & Use

Thermodynamics

Job Safety on Hazardous & Dangerous Work

Safety

Process Logic Controller (PLC) Basics

Process Control

Centrifugal Pump Life Extension - The Volute

Pumping

Gear Pump operation and Maintenance

Pumping

Reducing wear in abrasive conditions

Bulk Materials

Tools to Focus on Plant Reliability

Maintenance

Using Liquid Manometers for Measuring Pressure

Fluid Mechanics

Oil - How clean does it have to be?

Lubrication

Spread Forces through Equipment & Reduce Breakdowns

Mechanics

Cyclone Separators - Low Cost Particle Removal

Bulk Materials

Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) - What is it?

Maintenance

Electrical Motor Current Protection Saves Your Plant

Process Control

Setup Tank Agitators Gearboxes for a Long-life at Low Cost.

Process Equipment

Holiday Detection in Above-ground Tank Bottom Lining Inspection.

Process Equipment

Root Cause Analysis Answers Your Problems

Maintenance

Control Loops - Masters of Automatic Control

Process Control

Gluing Plastic Pipes so You Can Trust Them

Plastics

Is your wet scrubbing tower working?

Process Equipment

Metering & Dosing pump Operation

Process Equipment

Flow Meters - Don't ever believe what they tell you

Instrumentation

Plant Compressed air waste reduction

Pneumatics

Non-destructive testing of welds

Welding

Dust control concepts

Bulk Materials

Electric motor variable speed drives operation

Process Control

Rolling bearing vibration detection

Condition Monitoring

Rotating shafts under bending stress

Strength of Materials

The Big Bang - Starting and stopping equipment under load.

Mechanics

Orifice plate flow meter measurement

Instrumentation

6 Secrets of trouble-free lubrication success

Lubrication

Moving slurries about

Pumping

Belt conveyor tuning

Bulk Materials

Effect of process changes on electric motors

Process Control

Pump life extension - the impeller

Pumping

Heat Transfer Basics

Thermodynamics

Fired Packaged Boiler Basics

Boilers

Conductivity meter operation & use

Process Control

Lubrication cleanliness & filtration

Lubrication

The 9 great benefits of a CMMS

Asset Management

Mechanical level sensor types and use.

Instrumentation

Membrane and leaf filtration overview.

Process Equipment

Dust bag selection for bag houses.

Bulk Materials

Tracking belts on elevators and conveyors.

Bulk Materials

Budgets - what to do and how to use them.

Asset Management

 

Testimonials:

Karen Chew, Maintenance Engineer Tiwest JV, Kwinana - "Thanks Mike, We are all still enjoying your newsletters (on CD) immensely. The topics are always extremely useful to us and we find the articles well written and easy to understand."

 

 


 

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