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CfPA - The Center for Professional Advancement, New Brunswick, NJ
March 28-30, 2011
Who Should Attend
This highly practical course is recommend for those involved in machinery operation and troubleshooting including:
• Maintenance Engineers
• Machinery Engineers
• Supervisors
• Technicians
Personnel from the refining, pharmaceutical, food, chemical, utilities, mining, fertilizer, and petrochemical industries will benefit. Description
This course presents a systematic approach to fault and failure prevention in a broad range of machinery. The key routes to maintenance cost avoidance are demonstrated through a brief overview of metallurgical failure analysis and by describing a sequential approach to machinery troubleshooting and problem solving.
Equipment failure events will be reviewed and you are encouraged to bring relevant assembly drawings or such components as failed bearings, gears, mechanical seals and similar machine elements for failure analysis discussion.
The course explains, in detail, field-proven methods to successful failure analysis and troubleshooting. Through several case studies and by thoroughly briefing you on component upgrade measures with demonstrably high payback, it will be shown how such programs can lead to significant failure reductions. A matrix approach to machinery troubleshooting uses illustrative examples in pumps, centrifugal compressors, blowers and fans, reciprocating compressors, gas engines and turbines.
Considerable emphasis is placed on repeatable and focused means of tackling generalized machinery problem solving. These are fully explored in terms of situation and cause analysis, action generation, decision-making, and planning for change. A highly effective shortcut root cause analysis method is explained in detail. Finally, best-of-class managing to achieve optimized machinery uptime is presented.
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Organized by:
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CfPA - The Center for Professional Advancement |
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Invited Speakers:
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Heinz P. Bloch; Registered Consulting Engineer
Heinz P. Bloch is a consulting engineer with offices in West Des Moines, Iowa. Before retiring from Exxon, after over two decades of service, Mr. Bloch’s professional career included long-term assignments as Exxon Chemical’s Regional Machinery Specialist for the U.S. He has also held machinery-oriented staff and line positions with Exxon affiliates in the United States, Italy, Spain, England, The Netherlands and Japan. Troubleshooting and reliability improvement missions have taken him to process plants and manufacturing facilities in 30 or more countries on all six continents. He has conducted hundreds of public and In-Plant courses internationally.
Mr. Bloch is the author of over 480 technical papers or similar publications. His 18 comprehensive books and a searchable CD-ROM on practical machinery management include texts on failure analysis, failure avoidance, compressors, steam turbines, oil mist lubrication and practical lubrication for industrial facilities. These groundbreaking books have been used for reliability improvement lectures and maintenance cost reduction consulting worldwide. In addition, Mr. Bloch holds six U.S. and many international patents relating to high-speed machinery improvements.
Mr. Bloch graduated from the New Jersey Institute of Technology with B.S. and M.S. degrees (cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering. He was elected to three National Honor Societies, is an ASME Life Fellow, and maintains registration as a Professional Engineer in New Jersey and Texas. Mr. Bloch is the Reliability/ Equipment Editor of the monthly publication Hydrocarbon Processing.
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Deadline for Abstracts:
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n/a
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Registration:
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Please click here for registration information.
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E-mail:
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sberg@cfpa.com
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