Foundations of Plant Equipment and Maintenance Engineering: A Practical Introduction to Reliability, Condition Monitoring, Preventive

Your engineering degree taught you how machines are supposed to work. The plant floor teaches you how they actually fail. This book bridges that gap.Foundations of Plant Equipment and Maintenance Engineering is a practical, ground-up introduction to keeping industrial equipment running reliably. Written for the early-career maintenance or reliability engineer, and equally for students, technicians moving into engineering, and anyone entering the field, it builds the subject in the order you actually learn it: from the fundamentals of failure through to building a complete maintenance program.Inside, you will learn to: - Read the mathematics of failure: reliability, MTBF, availability, the bathtub curve, and the Weibull distribution.- Choose the right strategy using reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), FMEA, and total productive maintenance (TPM).- Understand the equipment you look after, pumps, motors, fans, compressors, bearings, drives, seals, piping, and valves, and exactly how each one fails.- Catch failures early with condition monitoring: vibration analysis, thermography, oil analysis, ultrasound, and motor testing.- Run the work: root cause analysis, planning and scheduling, spare parts, CMMS, performance metrics, and the safety and isolation that frame every task.What sets this guide apart: - 16 structured chapters covering the whole field, from fundamentals to program-building.- More than 60 clear diagrams that turn concepts into pictures.- Fully worked examples that show the reasoning, not just the answer.- Original practice problems with complete solutions in every concept chapter.- SI units with US customary equivalents throughout.Every idea is explained in plain language first and formally second, every symbol is defined the first time it appears, and every chapter states honestly what it covers and what it leaves to specialist training, so you always know the boundary of what you have learned.Whether you are preparing for a first role, refreshing the fundamentals, or moving from the shop floor into engineering, this is the foundation on which a career in maintenance and reliability is built.