In accordance with Section 34 of its Constitution, an election is to be held for the Board of Directors of the Asset Management Council Ltd, for the term 2017 – 2020. One member of the current Board of Directors is to retire at the AMCouncil 2017 Annual General Meeting and is ineligible to stand for re-election for the ensuing three-year term.
This paper assesses the potential consequences and associated risk levels for a major explosion following catastrophic failure of an hypothetical hydrogen-containing plant operating at elevated temperature and pressure. The plant is mooted as being located in an industrial area but with residential areas nearby. It considers the importance of fully open-air construction of such plants, of sufficient separation from surrounding communities and of free vertical discharge from pressure relief evices.
Physical plant assets are tending to remain in service for beyond their design lifetime. Arguably, a greater professional input is needed into the maintenance and reliability engineering of these assets, yet few universities offer such content in undergraduate engineering degrees. Accordingly, postgraduate programs have been developed.
This paper presents a framework for assessing the impact of the data collection process on the validity of key measures in reliability. The quality of data is affected by many organisational and behavioural factors. The aims of developing this framework are to
A Split System Approach (SSA) based methodology is presented to assist in making optimal Preventive Maintenance decisions for serial production lines. The methodology treats a production line as a complex series system with multiple PM actions over multiple intervals.
Maintenance management is a complex partnership between the people directly or indirectly involved in maintenance, the processes and strategies to direct the people’s actions, the physical assets being maintained, and the Computerised Maintenance Management Systems – the main link between the “people”, the “processes and strategies”, and the “asset”.