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An updated approach to Reliability Centered Maintenance that has transformed maintenance in a global beverage manufacturer, presented in a practical guide to building a Common Sense Planned Maintenance system. Paperback version with black and white illustrations. The beverage industry still follows outdated maintenance practices that were abandoned nearly 50 years ago in the aircraft industry. These practices combine sporadic corrective maintenance with periodic major overhauls, where the equipment is totally dismantled and rebuilt at great expense. The RCM principles that have since been applied in the aerospace, power or petrochemical industries are not followed in the beverage industry. This is partly because existing RCM texts are too theoretical to apply to the beverage industry, and partly because the industry has not developed a methodology to copy Planned Maintenance schedules from one similar machine to another. This book describes my Common Sense approach to building a Planned Maintenance system and how it was applied in a global beverage manufacturer, streamlining the approach to RCM to an appropriate level for the industry (relatively low risk) and using a hierarchical approach that facilitates copying Planned Maintenance schedules to other similar machines, accelerating development across the organization. The application of Common Sense Planned Maintenance in only one brewery reduced annual maintenance costs by over 2 million Euros and is so effective that the system was applied to over 50 breweries worldwide in 2023. In addition, the failure patterns published by Nolan and Heap in 1978 have been updated to take into account improvements in electronics and materials since the 1960's. This is a significant update on the basic principles that are currently accepted and used by maintenance engineers globally.This book also integrates modern technological developments into RCM theory, including CMMS, Predictive Maintenance and Condition Monitoring updates. Here is what the reviewer's say: Dr Jun Jie Chong, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Design and Manufacturing Engineering, Newcastle University Singapore: Overall, his book is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to learn more about maintenance and its practical applications. With its detailed guidance, practical insights, and wealth of examples, it provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to this critical aspect of maintenance engineering. Dennis van der Plas, Manager Maintenance and Asset Care, Heineken: I found this book both entertaining and a good source of knowledge at the same time. Clifford alternates throughout the book easily between explanation, analysis, anecdotes, and instruction, which makes the book very readable. I believe the book is appealing for both young engineers, as well as senior management in Maintenance, because it describes the basics of Maintenance Engineering as well as the considerations one needs to make when starting a large program. Altogether, I'm certain this book is an invaluable resource for many people.

This fully illustrated guide has information on the flora and fauna en route, places to stay, eat and drink, the local history of towns along the way and a number of maps.

This volume covers all aspects of the subject from the nature of lignites in situ to detailed coverage of fuel usage including figures for electricity generation and carbon dioxide release. Processing technologies including briquetting and carbonisation are described as are gasification, to make a fuel gas or a synthesis gas, and their conversion to liquid fuels. The book provides an international review, setting in context the use of lignite in various regions of the world.

An expert on Roman frontier infrastructure, he has conducted extensive research of Hadrian's Wall, and is the author of Hadrian's Coastal Route: Ravenglass to Bowness-on-Solway (also published by The History Press).

This dictionary provides a synthesis of information currently available but only in a diverse array of sources. Through judicious choice and careful scrutiny, the author has gathered together a very handy ready-reference in the same style as his companion volumes, Dictionary of Energy and Fuels and Dictionary of Fire Protection Engineering. Although the material covered is diverse, particular entries are focused and linked with each other so as to provide a good degree of comprehensiveness. For example, there is much information on well engineering including example calculations, and this is linked to wells at particular oil fields. There is also much on offshore production and again principles are linked, often by calculation, with particular offshore production platforms. The North Sea features, but not exclusively, and the vast bulk of the information presented is relevant to all locations. Commercial products, including those for oil well maintenance, are featured and information on the web from suppliers is expanded by drawing on the physics and chemistry of how such products work

A new and expanded edition of a successful text

A thorough international review of all aspects of lignites. Includes the essential topics of CO2 emissions and carbon capture and storage. A vital resource for scientists and engineers in this area and also those involved in energy policy making.

This comprehensive new dictionary comprises over 1300 definitions and brief articles to provide an extremely useful ready-reference work on solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, including information on the scenes of production of many fuels, such as major coal reserves and large oil and gas fields. Economics are addressed with entries included for all the major indices for oil, coal and natural gas pricing. The political perspective is also dealt with, covering the oil-producing countries and OPEC; environmental issues also feature, as do entries on chemical compounds, trade names, industrial processes and much more. The book carefully traces fuel usage since industrialisation with information provided on some 19th century events such as the Drake well. However, there is a correct balance of entries in terms of the periods to which they relate and thoroughly modern topics such as enhanced oil recovery are featured. Users of the Dictionary will gain an appreciation of the development of fuel and energy technology and sense the continuity or, in some cases, revival of ideas. As an example, what is now known as 'BTU conversion' and often treated as if it were novel is, in fact, a return to gasification technologies that were used a century or more ago!The Dictionary of Energy and Fuels is a reliable reference work on fuel and energy which will remain of great usefulness despite any future changes and trends in related technologies.