The Business Case For Precision Maintenance Management

• Macro and microeconomic benefits for your organization
• Your journey to world-class, proactive maintenance

Taking A Microscope Look At Precision Maintenance Fundamentals – An Introduction

• Fastening to reduce mechanical vibration
• Lubrication to cushion the effects of mechanical vibration
• Alignment to reduce mechanical vibration
• Balance to reduce mechanical vibration
• How managing Precision Maintenance to reduce vibration and improve lubrication extends machine life
• Electrical applications of Precision Maintenance management

The Physics Of Machine Failure

• Failure mechanisms connect failure modes to failure causes
• Right design and operation to manage stress-strength interference
• Understanding mechanical failure modes and mechanisms
• Understanding electrical failure modes and mechanisms

Modern, Machine Condition Monitoring – A Must For Precision Maintenance Management

• Proactive versus predictive condition monitoring and condition-based maintenance
• Vibration analysis fundamentals
• Lubricant analysis fundamentals
• Thermographic analysis fundamentals
• Ultrasonic acoustic emissions fundamentals
• Motor evaluation fundamentals
• Non-destructive testing techniques
• The “eyeometer” – visual and sensory inspections should create your foundation
• Designing a machine condition monitoring program
• The P-F interval for determining how and how often to monitor machine health
• How condition monitoring drives down maintenance costs
• How condition monitoring drives down maintenance inventories

Reliability Engineering Methods For Precision Maintenance Management

• The basics of reliability engineering
• How to manage risk over the life cycle of equipment assets

Fasteners

• Bolting theory – how fasteners really work to hold machines to together
• The difference between tension and torque
• How much tension? – Hooke’s Law
• How friction and lubrication influence torque and tension
• Proper bolting sequence
• Bolt basics – grades, standards and strength
• Wrong and right choices for washers
• Torque wrenches – 101

Lubrication

• Lubrication basics – the many roles of a lubricant
• Lubrication basics – the anatomy of a lubricant – it’s a bundle of performance properties
• How a lubricant protects the machine under full film, mixed film and boundary contact conditions
• Extending machine life with contamination control
• Machine set-up for lubrication maintainability
• Grease – not too much, not too little, but just right and just at the right time!
• Precision greasing with ultrasonic tools

Alignment

• The consequences of angular and offset misalignment
• How misalignment influences bearing life
• How misalignment influences coupling life
• How to detect misalignment with vibration analysis
• Laser alignment
• Managing pipe strain with alignment

Balance

• The basics of balancing
• Causes of imbalance
• How imbalance induced relative centrifugal force (RCF) robs your machines of life
• Balancing standards – ISO and API
• Single plane field balancing