Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management: Proceeding of COMADEM 90: The Second International Congress on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management Brunel University 16–18 July 1990

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Condition Monitoring Today and Tomorrow — An Airline Perspective....Pages 1-7
Condition Monitoring Today and Tomorrow — A Manufacturing Perspective....Pages 8-13
Dynamic Performance of a Hydrostatic Thrust Bearing with An ERFS and Grooved Lands....Pages 14-19
The Use of Stress Wave Sensors for the Diagnosis of Bearing Faults....Pages 20-25
Monitoring of check valves in reciprocating pumps....Pages 26-31
Signature analysis of a gear box of turbine generator set....Pages 32-37
Condition monitoring of wear using acoustic emission techniques....Pages 38-43
The condition monitoring of machine tools....Pages 44-48
Condition monitoring systems for machining applications....Pages 49-55
Tool wear monitoring by the analysis of surface roughness....Pages 56-61
Characterization of the acoustic emission behaviour during quasi static punching tests....Pages 62-67
The determination of cutting tool condition using vibration signals....Pages 68-73
Monitoring tool wear during the turning process....Pages 74-79
Monitoring of a production grinding process....Pages 80-85
The technique of mesh obscuration for debris monitoring — the COULTER LCM II....Pages 86-91
Finding what matters — health monitoring by FCM....Pages 92-97
Grease — a suitable case for condition monitoring....Pages 98-107
Engine monitors for efficient take-Off performance monitors....Pages 108-113
Condition/performance monitoring of internal combustion engine by continuous measurements of crankshaft twist angle....Pages 114-119
Rotating machinery noise and vibration study....Pages 120-125
Vibration analysis as tool for computerised machine monitoring....Pages 126-131
Using a PC based system for machinery transient analysis....Pages 132-141
Condition monitoring of key elements in high speed textile machinery....Pages 142-147
On the monitoring of a high speed mechanical feeder by means of an in-time windowing technique....Pages 148-154
Condition based maintenance....Pages 155-161
Cost effective computer software in maintenance management....Pages 162-168
Condition monitoring based maintenance in practice in a heavy chemical plant....Pages 169-175
Condition monitoring at a continuous coal handling facility....Pages 176-181
Condition-based maintenance in the FMMS environment....Pages 182-196
Predictive maintenance programme for GEN sets and reciprocating MUD pumps of oil fields....Pages 197-202
A case study of the maintenance of Second World War military jeeps in Bhopal: a study in the resourcefulness of the local mechanics....Pages 203-206
Maintenance strategy in the ’90s....Pages 207-211
Risk and waste management in oil field....Pages 212-217
Environmental pollution monitoring in oil exploration and exploitation....Pages 218-224
Comparison of the digraph and FAULTFINDER methods of fault tree synthesis for nested control systems....Pages 225-233
A study on the hierarchal quality control in CIMS....Pages 234-239
An experiment in automation of statistical process control using fuzzy logic....Pages 240-246
Application of syntactic pattern recognition techniques to condition monitoring of machines....Pages 247-252
An engineers’s assistant for balancing of flexible rotors....Pages 253-259
On-line decision making for diagnostic and monitoring purposes....Pages 260-265
Expert systems for quality management in glass container production....Pages 266-274
System-independent approaches to diagnostic knowledge reasoning and representation for mechanical and thermal systems....Pages 275-280
Intellectualization of faults diagnosis of rotating machinery — Expert System....Pages 281-286
Amethyst: an expert system for the diagnosis of rotating machinery....Pages 287-293
Integration of a PC based expert system shell and production line tracking system for failure diagnosis and rework definition....Pages 293-298
An expert system with circulating notice for emergency in underground coal mine....Pages 299-304
Detection of periods of significant activity in noisy signals....Pages 305-310
Application of an expert system on the monitoring of human lungs....Pages 311-316
Intelligent classification in EMG decomposition....Pages 317-325
Octave band revisited — machine condition monitoring using octave band data collectors....Pages 326-342
Tool wear monitoring sensors....Pages 343-348
System detection instrumentation....Pages 349-354
Real-time model and kinematic control of machine tools....Pages 355-360
Digital capacitance displacement measuring instrument....Pages 361-366
Optimisation and diagnosis for numerically controlled maching....Pages 367-372
In process measurements using an opto-electronic probe....Pages 373-378
A new three dimension piezoelectric transducer for diagnostic engineering....Pages 379-383
Improving the prediction of condition using simple sensors....Pages 384-389
A high accuracy test technology used for on-line measurement of abrasion wear in bearings....Pages 390-395
Machine diagnostics using the concepts of resolution ratio and automatic timing....Pages 396-402
Condition assessment and forecasting form plant diagnostic data with parèto model....Pages 403-406
Drift-fault diagnostics using fault-curves fitted to changes in dynamic response....Pages 407-413
Fundamentals of linear time-varying plant for diagnostic engineering....Pages 414-419
An artificial intelligent vision system for inspection and monitoring....Pages 420-425
TEXYS: A real-time picture processing system for on-line quality control....Pages 426-431
Moire photography in engineering measurement....Pages 432-436
Photogrammetry in industry....Pages 437-441
Energy management for conversion in oil rigs....Pages 442-449
Continuing education/training on computerized automation....Pages 450-455
Forecasting the change of operating condition for machinery via fuzzy classification....Pages 455-460
Homosource ANC and its application to the machinery diagnosis....Pages 461-467
The phase information in the rotor vibration behaviour analysis....Pages 468-475
In-situ measurement of cylindricity....Pages 476-482
Three-dimensional component inspection using a profile projector equipped with a fibre optic sensor....Pages 483-488
Back Matter....Pages 489-490