Machinery Reliability and Downtime Reduction
Root Cause Failure Analysis, Lubrication, and Asset Performance Best Practices for Maintenance ProfessionalsBy Rosalind Achterberg
Length15h 11m
About this audiobook
Downtime is rarely a mystery once the evidence is read properly.
This book gives you a complete reliability method, starting with the metrics that survive scrutiny and the asset hierarchy that makes failure history worth keeping. You will learn the failure mechanisms of bearings, gears, seals and couplings, run a structured root cause analysis using logic trees and preserved evidence, and read damage patterns straight off the failed component.
Lubrication chapters cover viscosity selection, contamination control, cleanliness coding and oil analysis interpretation. Condition monitoring chapters teach vibration spectra, thermography and ultrasound routes with practical alarm limits. Final chapters turn all of it into strategy: task selection, planning, spares policy and downtime accounting.
What you will learn:
• Reliability language and metrics that withstand scrutiny
• How to build an asset hierarchy that preserves failure history
• Failure modes of rotating equipment: bearings, gears, seals, couplings
• Structured root cause failure analysis using logic trees and evidence
• Component forensics: reading damage patterns from failed parts
• Lubrication fundamentals: viscosity selection, contamination control, cleanliness coding
• Lubricant degradation and oil analysis interpretation
• Vibration analysis, thermography, ultrasound, and motor testing with alarm limits
• Precision maintenance, maintenance strategy selection, planning, scheduling, spares, and downtime reduction
For reliability engineers, maintenance managers, planners and condition-monitoring technicians.
Audiobook details
GenreTechnology
Length15 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 27, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Machinery Reliability and Downtime Reduction
2Foreword
3Preface
4About This Book
5Important Safety Notice
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6Chapter 1: Reliability Language and Metrics
71.1 Failure, Repair, and the Events That Count
81.2 Mean Time Between Failures and Mean Time to Repair
91.3 Hazard Rate and the Bathtub Curve
101.4 Weibull Basics and Plotting Failure Data
111.5 Availability, Its Components, and What Management Hears
121.6 Reliability Data You Can Defend in a Meeting
13Chapter 2: Building the Asset Hierarchy
142.1 Equipment Registers and Functional Locations
152.2 Equipment Criticality Ranking
162.3 Failure Coding That Survives an Audit
172.4 Work History, Meters, and Operating Context
182.5 Making the Hierarchy Work: Governance and Change Control
19Chapter 3: Failure Modes of Rotating Equipment
203.1 How Bearings Fail
213.2 Gear Failure Mechanisms
223.3 Couplings, Shafts, and Seals
233.4 Belts, Chains, and Other Drives
243.5 Electric Motor Failure Modes
25Chapter 4: Root Cause Failure Analysis
264.1 What Root Cause Analysis Is and Is Not
274.2 The Limits of Five Whys
284.3 Logic Trees and Hypothesis Testing
294.4 Evidence Preservation and the Chain of Custody
304.5 Writing the Report and Closing the Loop
31Chapter 5: Component Forensics
325.1 Reading Bearing Damage Patterns
335.2 Fracture Surfaces and Shaft Failures
345.3 Wear Debris and Lubricant Forensics
355.4 Discoloration, Deposits, and Overheating Evidence
365.5 Turning Forensics into Action
37Chapter 6: Lubrication Fundamentals
386.1 Why Lubrication Decides Machine Life
396.2 Viscosity, Grades, and Selection
406.3 Base Oils, Additives, and Compatibility
416.4 Film Thickness and Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication
426.5 Grease Selection, Application, and Compatibility
43Chapter 7: Lubricant Degradation and Analysis
447.1 Oxidation and Thermal Degradation
457.2 Varnish, Deposits, and Their Consequences
467.3 Water Ingress and Its Effects
477.4 Cleanliness Codes and Contamination Control
487.5 Reading an Oil Analysis Report
497.6 Sampling Practice and Programme Design
50Chapter 8: Vibration Analysis
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