I've highlighted the topic of plant turnarounds (planned downtime for maintenance) a few times in the past. Back from the Emerson Exchange, here's my take on the Smart Turnaround workshop. For continuous processes that run for years, this turnaround provides...
Plant Equipment
What Is Your Reactive Maintenance Percentage?
Bill Broussard, a marketing manager in the Machinery Health Management part of Emerson's Asset Optimization business, recently had an article published in Plant Engineering magazine. The article, Act, don't react, for greater asset optimization, suggests a path away...
Turnaround Planning Begins Well in Advance
I received a call recently from an automation engineer facing an upcoming planned shutdown or "turnaround" in industry parlance. Actually "controlled chaos" may be a better moniker since a tremendous amount of maintenance activity needs to be squeezed into a short...
Avoiding Centrifugal Pump Failure
A colleague pointed me to an article, Timeline of a refinery pump failure and how it could have been prevented, on the Belgium-based EngineeringNet.be website. The story was about a South American refinery that had a high-speed centrifugal pump fail catastrophically...
Understanding Corrosion in Materials Selection
Recently, Flow Control magazine published an article by Gerry Berry, a metallurgical engineer working with Emerson's Micro Motion Coriolis flowmeters. The article, Strategies for Proper Material Selection--Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Application Experience,...
Building the Plan for Successful Plant Turnarounds
A leading research organization, the Aberdeen Group, says it well when they say:In asset intensive industries, such as automotive, metals, mining, oil and gas, process manufacturing, utilities, and the public sector, the reliability and productivity of capital assets...
Improved Equipment Reliability with On-Site Lube Oil Analysis
I recently came across a lubricant analysis story in Plant Services magazine about an electric power provider in Kansas in the U.S. It described how this producer wanted to reduce costs and improve machine reliability. The article described the importance of...
Critical Pressure Control for Turbomachinery
You know you need to periodically get your car's oil changed and the lube oil system checked if you want the engine to last over the life you own your car. It's the same for many process manufacturers who have large, critical turbomachinery assets. These can include...
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