Industrial Machinery Repair : Best Maintenance Practices Pocket Guide

Title: Industrial Machinery Repair : Best Maintenance Practices Pocket Guide
Author: R. Keith Mobley, Ricky Smith
ISBN: 8181473361 / 9788181473363
Format: Soft Cover
Pages: 544
Publisher: Elsevier
Year: 2003
Availability: Out of Stock

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Industrial Machinery Repair provides a practical reference for practicing plant engineers, maintenance supervisors, physical plant supervisors and mechanical maintenance technicians. It focuses on the skills needed to select, install and maintain electro-mechanical equipment in a typical industrial plant or facility. The authors focuses on "Best Maintenance Repair Practices" necessary for maintenance personnel to keep equipment operating at peak reliability and companies functioning more profitably through reduced maintenance costs and increased productivity and capacity. A number of surveys conducted in industries throughout the United States have found that 70% of equipment failures are self-induced. If the principles and techniques in this book are followed, it will result in a serious reduction in "self induced failures". In the pocketbook format, this reference material can be directly used on the plant floor to aid in effectively performing day-to-day duties. Data is presented in a concise, easily understandable format to facilitate use in the adverse conditions associated with the plant floor. Each subject is reduced to it simplest terms so that it will be suitable for the broadest range of users. Since this book is not specific to any one type of industrial plant and is useful in any type of facility.

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Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 : Introduction : Why Use Best Maintenance Repair Practices?
Chapter 2 : Fundamental Requirements of Effective Preventive/Predictive Maintenance
Chapter 3 : Maintenance Skills Assessment
Chapter 4 : Safety First, Safety Always
Chapter 5 : Rotor Balancing
Chapter 6 : Bearings
Chapter 7 : chain Drives
Chapter 8 : Compressors
Chapter 9 : Control Valves
Chapter 10 : Conveyors
Chapter 11 : Couplings
Chapter 12 : Dust Collectors
Chapter 13 : Fans, Blowers, and Fluidizers
Chapter 14 : Gears and Gearboxes
Chapter 15 : Hydraulics
Chapter 16 : Lubrication
Chapter 17 : Machinery Installation
Chapter 18 : Mixers and Agitators
Chapter 19 : Packing and Seals
Chapter 20 : Precision Measurement
Chapter 21 : Pumps
Chapter 22 : Steam Traps
Chapter 23 : V-Belt Drives
Chapter 24 : Maintenance Welding

Appendix A
Index