COMADEM 89 International: Proceedings of the First International Congress on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (COMADEM)

Front Matter....Pages 1-12
Introduction....Pages 13-13
Total Quality in NDT and Condition Monitoring....Pages 15-19
Condition-based Maintenance — Where to Next?....Pages 20-24
Condition Monitoring in Manufacture....Pages 25-28
Assessment of Symptom Limit Value in Vibration Condition Monitoring....Pages 29-33
Turbomachinery Failure Detection — Combination of Transfer Matrix and Finite Element Method....Pages 34-39
Diagnostic for Mechanical Systems through Analysing Variations in Vibration Signatures....Pages 40-44
Identification and Digital Control of a Turbo-charged Marine Diesel Engine....Pages 45-49
Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic of a Diesel Engine through Detecting Changes in Estimated Dynamic Models....Pages 50-54
The Fulmer Method of Monitoring Fluid Abrasivity as an Indication of Fluid Condition and Machine Health....Pages 55-67
Practical Gear Fault Diagnosis Using Vibration-based Methods....Pages 68-73
COMPASS: A Generalized Ground-based Monitoring System....Pages 74-87
Computer-aided Machine Health Monitoring....Pages 88-92
A Revolution in Rotating Machinery Monitoring....Pages 93-97
Inspection of Re-manufactured Gearboxes Using Noise Analysis....Pages 98-103
Reliability of Aircraft High Lift Devices....Pages 104-110
A Design Study of a Production Centrifuge with Respect to Maintainability and Condition Monitoring....Pages 111-116
A Personal Computer Based Burn-in System....Pages 117-121
Development of a Micro-computer Based System for On-line Monitoring of the Reliability Characteristics of a Recycle Gas Compressor....Pages 122-126
A Fiscal and Process Controller for a Hardboard Mill....Pages 127-133
The Assessment of Availability through Simulation....Pages 134-138
Automatic Environmental Monitoring....Pages 139-143
A Supervisory Officer’s Guide to Effective Interviewing/Counselling of Personnel Suspected of Having an Alcohol Dependency Problem....Pages 144-147
System for Real Time Process Monitoring and Adaptive Control during CNC Deep Hole Drilling....Pages 148-153
Plant Health Monitoring Using a Turbine Flowmeter....Pages 154-158
Real Time Monitoring of Roll Cooling Water Flow Rate....Pages 159-164
Health Monitoring of Motorised Valve Actuators and Similar Devices....Pages 165-169
Blanking Process Characterization Using Acoustic Emission....Pages 170-174
A Monitor for the Cooling System of a Large Electrical Generator....Pages 175-181
Pump Performance — Its Application to Condition Monitoring....Pages 182-186
The Monitoring of the Alignment of Continuous Casting Machines....Pages 187-193
The Adaptive Acoustic Monitoring of Aircraft Engines....Pages 194-198
Power System Network Loadflow Management Using Fuzzy Knowledge-based Expert System....Pages 199-205
Towards Unmanned Manufacture: Applications of an Expert System....Pages 206-211
Expert Systems Applied to Gas Turbine Condition Monitoring....Pages 212-218
Post Flight Analysis of EH101 Helicopter Maintenance Data....Pages 219-225
A Strategy of Knowledge Elicitation for the Monitoring and Control of Industrial Processes....Pages 226-230
Computerised Technical Documentation....Pages 231-237
A Diagnostic Expert System Which Generates Explanations....Pages 238-241
The Application of Expert Systems and Computer Simulation Technologies to Process Monitoring and Control....Pages 242-246
Computer-assisted Analysis of Evoked Transients....Pages 247-253
Development of Computer-aided Data Acquisition, Control and Analysis System (CADACAS) for Remote Condition Monitoring....Pages 254-259
Data Acquisition System for High Strain Fatigue Testing....Pages 260-265
On Maintaining and Reasoning with Incomplete Information....Pages 266-270
Decision Support Systems for Manufacturing Management....Pages 271-275
Concurrent System Behaviour....Pages 276-280
Inspect or Monitor? — How to Choose Maintenance Policy by Matrix Algebra....Pages 281-289
Maintenance Management Technique for Small-sized Road Construction Companies....Pages 290-302
Condition-based Maintenance System Engineering....Pages 303-307
Effective Machinery Fault Diagnosis Avoids Unnecessary Gearbox Maintenance (Case Study)....Pages 308-313
Automatic Condition Monitoring in the Hot Strip Mill of Rautaruukki Oy Raahe Steel Works....Pages 314-324
On-line Surveillance for Predictive Maintenance in a Hazardous Environment....Pages 325-334
Cost-effective Condition Monitoring....Pages 335-347
Debris Counting for Consistent Monitoring....Pages 348-352
Monitoring Liquid Levels....Pages 353-357
Why Put Up with Bearing Failures?....Pages 358-363
Computerised Maintenance Scheme for a Process Industry Using Monte-Carlo Simulation Technique....Pages 364-371
The Fundamentals of, and the Application of Computers to, Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance....Pages 372-377
The Use of Thermography in Industrial Predictive Maintenance....Pages 378-385
Set Vibration Alarm Levels without Guesswork....Pages 386-396
Sampling Techniques for Monitoring Sinusoidal Waveforms....Pages 397-401
Surface Temperature and Heat Flow Measurement....Pages 402-408
High Quality Non-contact Measurement Using Capacitance Gauges....Pages 409-413
Analysis of Sigma Delta Modulators....Pages 414-418
Dynamic Tip Clearance Measurements in Axial Flow Compressors....Pages 419-423
A Portable Scanning Laser Vibrometer for Surface Vibration Analysis....Pages 424-428
Clean Window Design for Optical Access....Pages 429-433
Numerical Solution of the Matrix Riccati Equation for a Time Variant Jet Engine System....Pages 434-438
Non-linear Optimal Tracking Problem for Jet Engine Control....Pages 439-443
Technical Diagnostics of Shafts and Bearings by Analysing Relative Speeds....Pages 444-449
Ferrogram Quantitive Analyser — Its Application in Industry....Pages 450-452
Methods and Experiences in the Application of Technical Diagnosis for Prevention and Early Detection of Damages to Components of the Water-Steam-Cycle of Thermal Power Stations....Pages 453-457
An Experimental Facility for Investigation into the Control and Monitoring of Energy Consumption of VAV and CAV Air Conditioning Systems....Pages 458-462
Advanced Control Techniques for BEMS....Pages 463-468
Energy Management and Optimisation Using Adaptive Control Techniques....Pages 469-476
Monitoring and Control of Unmanned Machinery at Sea....Pages 477-482
Condition Monitoring for Fatigue — Implications of Fatigue Crack Shape....Pages 483-487
Biofouling on Offshore Installations — An Impact and Monitoring Assessment....Pages 488-493
The Monitoring of Industrial Processes Using Ultrasound....Pages 494-498
Condition Monitoring of British Gas Pipelines....Pages 499-507
Research on Quantitative Ferrography Technology....Pages 508-512
Wear Detection of a Vane Pump Using a Novel Flowmeter Phenomenon....Pages 513-519
Condition Monitoring Using Conventional Process Instrumentation....Pages 520-524
Condition Monitoring of Bends in Pneumatic Conveying Systems....Pages 525-529
Stress Wave Sensing — A New Measurand for Condition Monitoring....Pages 530-534
Novel Adaptive Control Schemes for Peripheral Milling....Pages 535-538
A New Technique for Condition Monitoring of Rolling Element Bearings Using a Portable Data Collector....Pages 539-544
On Condition Monitoring and Maintenance....Pages 545-549
Computer-based Training in Statistical Quality Control....Pages 550-554
A Project to Examine the Use of Open Learning Techniques in COMADEM....Pages 555-558
Back Matter....Pages 559-560