Engineering Asset Management: Proceedings of the 1st World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM) 11 – 14 July 2006

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the inaugural World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM) being held at the Conrad Jupiters Hotel on the Gold Coast from July 11 to 14, 2006. More than 170 authors from 28 countries have contributed over 160 papers to be presented over the first three days of the conference. Day four will be host to a series of workshops devoted to the practice of various aspects of Engineering Asset Management. WCEAM is a new annual global forum on the various multidisciplinary aspects of Engineering Asset Management. It deals with the presentation and publication of outputs of research and development activities as well as the application of knowledge in the practical aspects of: strategic asset management risk management in asset management design and life-cycle integrity of physical assets asset performance and level of service models financial analysis methods for physical assets reliability modelling and prognostics information systems and knowledge management asset data management, warehousing and mining condition monitoring and intelligent maintenance intelligent sensors and devices regulations and standards in asset management human dimensions in integrated asset management education and training in asset management and performance management in asset management. We have attracted academics, practitioners and scientists from around the world to share their knowledge in this important emerging transdiscipline that impacts on almost every aspect of daily life. Front Matter....Pages I-XXI Fault Self Recovery of Industrial Plants -Vision and State of the Art....Pages 22-30 Zero-Breakdown Machines and Systems: Productivity Needs for Next-Generation Maintenance....Pages 31-43 Asset Management — An Insurance Perspective....Pages 44-53 Challenges in Achieving Optimal Asset Performance Based on Total Cost of Ownership....Pages 54-63 An Auditing Process to Improve Asset Management Performance....Pages 64-71 Research on Influences on Maintenance Management Effectiveness....Pages 72-79 Optimising Plant Performance: A Systems Thinking Approach to Problem Solving....Pages 80-86 A Model to Diagnose the Deviation in the Maintenance Performance Measures....Pages 87-93 A Socio-Technical Perspective on Integrated Operations for High-Risk and Complex Industrial Assets: Experience from North Sea Oil & Gas Industry....Pages 94-99 Strategies for Sustainability Risk Management through Active ‘ Bap (Business-Asset-Process) Performance Integration ’....Pages 100-105 The Need for Agility in Asset Management....Pages 106-114 Maintenance Related IEC Dependability Standards....Pages 115-119 E-Maintenance and Vulnerability....Pages 120-124 AE Condition Monitoring: Challenges and Opportunities....Pages 125-136 A Framework to Assess Data Quality for Reliability Variables....Pages 137-147 Determination of Optimal Preventive Maintenance Strategy for Serial Production Lines....Pages 148-155 The Interactive Hazards of Components in a System After Repairs — A Mathematical Formulation Authors....Pages 156-162 Behavioural Preferences for Engineering Asset Management....Pages 163-168 A Case Study on Maintenance and RSA Public Service Delivery....Pages 169-175 Critical Success Factors for Brown-Field Capital and Renewal Projects....Pages 176-181 Condition Monitoring of Low Speed Bearings: A Comparative Study of the Ultrasound Technique Versus Vibration Measurements....Pages 182-191 Development of Testing Facilities for Verification of Machine Condition Monitoring Methods for Low Speed Machinery....Pages 192-197 Blind Deconvolution using the Eigenvector Algorithm (EVA) Method for the Enhancement of Bearing Signal Through the Transmission Channel....Pages 198-205 Blind Equalization Based Eigenvector Algorithm for the Recovery of Mechanical Vibrations....Pages 206-211 Defective Evaluation of Concrete Structure with Risk-Based Maintenance....Pages 212-220 Development of Fiber Optic Inclinometers for Bridge Monitoring....Pages 221-228 Optimising Asset Management Decision Making and Budgeting Using Risk Management Techniques....Pages 229-236 Load-Independent Condition Assessment of Gears Using Kolmogorov-Smirnov Goodness-of-Fit Test and Autoregressive Modeling....Pages 237-252 Development of an Optimum Voltage Step Control Strategy for a Robotic Manufacturing Process....Pages 253-261 Opportunistic Electrode Replacement in a Robotic Spot Welding System....Pages 262-275 Induction Motor Fault Detection Using Hybrid Methods....Pages 276-287 You Cannot Manage What You Cannot Measure: An Information Systems Based Asset Management Perspective....Pages 288-300 Condition Monitoring of Bridges by Vibration Analysis Using Fiber Optic Inclinometers....Pages 301-308 Remote Machine Monitoring Through Mobile Phone, Smartphone or PDA....Pages 309-315 A Sophisticated but Easy-to-Use and Cost-Effective Machine Condition Monitoring and Degration Prediction System....Pages 316-326 Security Considerations for Modern Web-Based Maintenance or Remote Sensing System....Pages 327-331 On the Condition Monitoring of Worm Gears....Pages 332-343 Critical Success Factors for the Implementation of Business Intelligence System in Engineering Asset Management Organisations....Pages 344-351 Feature Group Optimization for Machinery Fault Diagnosis Based on Fuzzy Measures....Pages 352-359 Techniques in Developing Economic Decision Model Combining Above Rail and Below Rail Assets....Pages 360-367 Development of Wear-Fatigue-Lubrication-Interaction Model for Cost Effective Rail Maintenance Decisions....Pages 368-378 Detection and Analysis of Deterioration Trends in Construction Machines Operation....Pages 379-391 A Statistical Activity Cost Analysis of the Relationship Between Physical and Financial Aspects of Fixed Assets....Pages 392-399 Application of the Generalised Likelihood Ratio Algorithm to the Detection of a Bearing Fault in a Helicopter Transmission....Pages 400-405 Improving the Information Governance of Public Utilities Through an Organizational Knowledge Base....Pages 406-417 An Asset Management Framework to Improve Longer Term Returns on Investments in the Capital Intensive Industries....Pages 418-432 E-Famemain: A Benchmarking Web-Tool for O&M Management....Pages 433-444 A Method for Managing the Availability Improvement Efforts....Pages 445-451 The Nature of Engineering Maintenance Work: A Blank Space on the Map....Pages 452-459 The Future of Asset Management....Pages 460-472 A Data Quality Framework for Engineering Asset Management....Pages 473-482 Distributed Algorithm for Localization of Large Scale Sensorn Network....Pages 483-491 A Risk Management Toolkit for Integrated Engineering Asset Maintenance....Pages 492-503 Degradation Monitoring of Industrial Heat Exchangers....Pages 504-512 Development of 3-D Sound Localization System by Binaural Model....Pages 513-517 Designing Average Complex Real—Signal Mother Wavelet and Applying It in Abnormal Signal Detection....Pages 518-526 Flow Visualisation in Dense Phase Pneumatic Conveying of Alumina....Pages 527-537 Asset Renewal Decision Modelling for Public Infrastructure Assets....Pages 538-547 Common Pitfalls with SAPTM-Based Plant Maintenance Systems....Pages 548-555 Optimising Maintenance Performance: An Application of the Theory of Constraints....Pages 556-567 Optimising the Maintenance Function - It’s Just as Much About the People as the Technical Solution....Pages 568-575 “The end of the Beginning”....Pages 576-586 Value Driven Preventive Maintenance Activities Using Quadrant Analysis....Pages 587-595 Development of a Strategic Asset Management Framework....Pages 596-605 ISO Standards for Condition Monitoring....Pages 606-613 Integrating Root Cause Analysis Methodologies....Pages 614-617 Maintaining Knowledge Assets....Pages 618-626 Delivering Operational Safety and Service Availability Through Innovative Maintenance Worksplan Approaches....Pages 627-636 RFID for Asset Management: A Fact or Fad....Pages 637-648 Intelligent Maintenance System Application to Glue Dispensing Machine....Pages 649-658 Asset Management Characterization of the Portuguese Secondary School Buildings....Pages 659-669 Developing Strategic Asset Management Leaders Through Postgraduate Education....Pages 670-681 High Voltage Plant Asset Management....Pages 682-690 Modelling and Simulation - A Profitable Tool for all Phases of the Lifecycle....Pages 691-699 State Water Corporation Total Asset Management Plan....Pages 700-711 State Water Portfolio Risk Analysis....Pages 712-723 Helicopter Gearbox Bearing Blind Fault Identification Using a Range of Analysis Techniques....Pages 724-737 Development and Implementation of Maintenance Performance Measurement System: Issues and Challenges....Pages 738-743 Design an Integrated Intelligent Equipment Maintenance and Production Dispatching System Using the JESS Platform....Pages 744-756 Asset Management KPIs, Validated, Analysed and Predicted Utilising Self Learning Hybrid Modelling in Real Time....Pages 757-766 Organizational Management of Project and Technical Knowledge Over Fleet Lifecycles....Pages 767-778 Application of Random Forest Algorithm in Machine Fault Diagnosis....Pages 779-784 Exploiting Technology for Real time High Voltage Network Fault Management....Pages 785-793 Regulating Asset Management Through Serviceability and a Common Framework for Investment Planning....Pages 794-805 Delivering Reliability Improvement & Efficiency Through Emerging Diagnostic Techniques at Powercor....Pages 806-812 Optimising Floor Space During Retrofitting of High-Rise Office Buildings....Pages 813-821 Criticality in Asset Management....Pages 822-836 A Review of the MIMOSA OSA-EAI Database for Condition Monitoring Systems....Pages 837-846 Machinery Condition Prognosis Using Multivariate Analysis....Pages 847-854 Strategic Asset Management — Getting the People and System Issues Right....Pages 855-865 Computational FEA Model of A Coupled Piezoelectric Sensor and Plate Structure for Energy Harvesting....Pages 866-875 Strategies for Physical Asset Management in KHNP....Pages 876-882 Experience with Education in Maintenance and Reliability Engineering by off Campus Learning....Pages 883-892 Monitoring Central Gland Leakage on Combined HP-IP Casing Steam Turbines....Pages 893-897 Study of Remote Condition Monitoring and Assessing on Quayside-Container-Cranes....Pages 898-903 Determination of the Risk Profile of a Hydrogen Consuming Facility Using Published Failure Rate Data....Pages 904-918 A Combined Operations and Maintenance Strategy for Improved Plant Performance: Survey Results Analysis....Pages 919-930 Galvanized Steel in Asset Design....Pages 931-941 Asset Management of Medium Voltage Cable Networks....Pages 942-948 New Techniques for Estimating the Condition of High Voltage Polymeric Insulators....Pages 949-956 Managing the Intangible Asset....Pages 957-963 Experimental Study on Monitoring the Attachment Bolt Looseness in a Clamping Support Structure Model....Pages 964-970 Application of Probabilistic Safety Assessment to Parameters of Operational Limits and Conditions of the Opal Research Reactor....Pages 971-980 Improving Maintenance Workflows Through the Use of Activity Sampling to Identify and Remove Barriers to Productivity....Pages 981-989 Fault Diagnosis of Carbon Fibre Composite Masts....Pages 990-997 The Influence of Crack Propagation of the Bended Beam on Propagation Performace of Vibration Energy....Pages 998-1003 Virtual Testing of a Polymer Sliding Contact....Pages 1004-1009 Understanding Failure Risk in Electrical Machines....Pages 1010-1014 Ad-Hoc to Best-Practice — The Roadmap to Achieving Best-Practice Management of Condition Monitoring Data....Pages 1015-1023 Optimization of Intentional Mistuning for Bladed Disk : Intentional Mistuning Intensity Effect....Pages 1024-1029 Identifying and Managing the Community Infrastructure Asset Renewal Gap....Pages 1030-1037 Technology Mission on Indian Railways....Pages 1038-1042 Development of the Rsm-Based Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm for Low Vibration of Ship Structure....Pages 1043-1049 Enterprise Reliability Management....Pages 1050-1055 Development of a Novel Wireless Transducer for Measuring the Transient Torque of an Automotive Powertrain....Pages 1056-1062 Cut Your Costs by 75% - How a Little Prevention Can Save a Lot of Money....Pages 1063-1069 Measuring Safety in Gas Distribution Networks....Pages 1070-1079 Assessment of Road Signs for Retroreflectivity....Pages 1080-1089 Tools for Analysing Large Numbers of Inspection Data, Used to Asses Remnant Life of Pipework....Pages 1090-1097 System Architecture and Data Design for RFID-Based Item Level Track and Trace....Pages 1098-1103 Genetic Algorithms for Feature Subset Selection in Equipment Fault Diagnosis....Pages 1104-1113 Effect of Information on the Risk of Unexpected Failure....Pages 1114-1124 Facilities Management Action Agenda: The Australian Government and Industry Working Together for Improvement....Pages 1125-1134 An Integrated Collaborative Approach for FM- Sydney Opera House FM Exemplar....Pages 1135-1144 Profit Contribution Mapping....Pages 1145-1155 Assuring Quality in Maintenance....Pages 1156-1164 Aligning Operations, Maintenance and Engineering to Provide the Seeds of Sustainable Asset Management — A Case Study....Pages 1165-1169 Improving the Financial Bottom Line in Healthcare with CMMS....Pages 1170-1176 Field Investigation of Cavitation and Flow Induced Vibrations in Submerged Vertical Pumps in a Power Plant....Pages 1177-1186 Asset Management of Power Apparatus....Pages 1187-1195 Remote Sensing in Condition Monitoring....Pages 1196-1204 Decision Support Systems in Plastic Recycling Plants....Pages 1205-1211 Condition Based Risk Management (CBRM) — Enabling Asset Condition Information to be Central to Corporate Decision Making....Pages 1212-1217 The Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (SMRP)....Pages 1218-1221 Modeling Rail Wheel-Flat Dynamics....Pages 1222-1231 Towards an Assessment Tool for the Strategic Management of Asset Criticality....Pages 1232-1242 Professional Skills Training in Integrated Asset Management: How to Develop and Implement the Essential Organisational Asset Management Functions....Pages 1243-1251 Sensor Degradation Detection in Linear Systems....Pages 1252-1260 This text represents state-of-the-art trends and developments in the emerging field of engineering asset management as presented at the First World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM) held in Australia in July 2006. The First WCEAM brings together four major international conferences: The Asia Pacific Conference on Systems Integrity and Maintenance (ACSIM) hosted by CRC for Integrated Engineering Asset Management (CIEAM) The Condition Monitoring Conference hosted by the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing, (BINDT) The Intelligent Maintenance Systems Conference (IMS) hosted by the IMS Center in the USA, and The International Conference of Maintenance Societies (ICOMS®2006) hosted by the Maintenance Engineering Society of Australia (MESA). The Proceedings of the First World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM) 2006 is an excellent reference for practitioners, researchers and students in the multidisciplinary field of asset management, covering topics such as: Strategic asset management Risk management in asset management Asset data warehousing, data mining and fusion Asset condition monitoring and intelligent maintenance Intelligent sensors and devices Fault diagnosis and prognostics Deterioration and preservation models for assets Human dimensions in integrated asset management Design and life-cycle integrity of physical assets Maintenance strategies in asset management Asset performance and level-of-service models Information systems and knowledge management Optimisation decisions in asset management Financial analysis methods for physical assets Engineering standards in asset management Education and training in asset management