Plant Engineering

As industrial processes become more and more automated, Air Logic for Automated Systems provides the means for anyone involved with control systems to acquire the knowledge and skills they need to implement and maintain ALC industrial control systems. The author focuses not only on design but also o..

A prevalent system in large corporations for quite some time, Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is now penetrating moderate to small corporations on an international level. These corporations need an efficient method to implement this effective but complicated system. However, most o..

Development and Control of Dust Explosions..

An introduction to pragmatic methods for solving complex problems in facilities location: choosing from among known feasible sites or a broad range described as an area, placing facilities, and assigning customers. It emphasizes careful location and customer allocation to determine optimum use of ti..

This book addresses issues and challenges of performance measurement in the maintenance function. It presents a proposal of indicators with a framework that classifies and sorts regarding functional and hierarchical aspects. The book has been developed with different aspects of traditional literatur..

Completely revised and updated, this second edition of a bestseller provides the tools needed for making data-driven physical asset management decisions. The book is solidly based on the results of real-world research in physical asset management, including applications of the models presented in th..

Completely revised and updated, this second edition of a bestseller provides the tools needed for making data-driven physical asset management decisions. The book is solidly based on the results of real-world research in physical asset management, including applications of the models presented in th..

This reference demonstrates the correct methodology to conduct successful failure analyses. The book builds the background necessary for these investigations and discusses procedures to reduce the occurrence of component failures due to errors in material selection, design, and manufacturing, as wel..

The first guide to compile current research and frontline developments in the science of process intensification (PI), Re-Engineering the Chemical Processing Plant illustrates the design, integration, and application of PI principles and structures for the development and optimization of chemical an..

Revitalizing Manufacturing..