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Machinery & Equipment MRO
February 2022
The reliability of industrial machinery can be reduced by 50 per cent or more if extreme operating conditions are not considered. BY L. (TEX) LEUGNER
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any highly skilled, well qualified and well-meaning engineers and maintenance managers diligently and consistently apply sound maintenance ideas to their plant and industrial machinery, yet they fail miserably in their attempts to extend machinery life cy-
cles or improve machine reliability. Why is this so? One important reason is that plant management fail to consider the “extreme or unusual operating conditions” to which the organizations machinery may be subjected. This is a particular problem in plants, where the management group has little or no
technical training or experience, and ignores recommendations made by those who have. Machine reliability problems directly associated with extremes in operating conditions include; • Poor design of new machinery. • Excessive machine vibration. • Extreme temperature conditions.
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IGNORING EXTREME OPERATING CONDITIONS CAN COST INDUSTRY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
