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

RajB KNRao Conference Director, Birmingham Polytechnic Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (COMADEM) is a relatively new field that has already made its mark in a wide range of industries. But all the signs are that even more will be required of researchers in the field over the next decade, for COMADEM directly addresses a whole range of issues that are likely to become increasingly important to companies as competitiveness increases along with the uncertainties resulting from rapid technological change. Already for example, businesses are having to scrutinize the economics of plant and machinery in greater detail than ever before; reliability is becoming a crucial factor as the costs of unscheduled breakdowns rise and there is increasing pressure on companies to demonstrate and assure improved health and safety conditions, especially in light of the growing number of catastrophic accidents that have occured throughout the world. Because it offers solutions to these and similar problems, COMADEM is now gaining an international reputation as a problem-solving, user-friendly and financially beneficial multi-discipline with immense potential. Many people at the senior management level are now convinced that COMADEM has much to offer and are wasting no time in reaping maximum benefit from the latest developments. The fact that the first UK informal seminar on COMADEM - COMADEM 88 - proved to be a great success and had a truly international flavour reflected this growing interest in the new field. 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