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predictive maintenance on centrifugal pump

what is preventive and predictive maintenance task for centrifugal pump

March 29, 2019 engineer Reliability Centered Maintenance

the maintenance program for Centrifugal Pump Maintenance engineer responsible to develop a maintenance program to make sure that every rotating equipment can run and operate safely without any breakdown or emergency failure. The program consists of preventive task, predictive task or function test task. A preventive task is a task to replace or renew an aged part with a new one to prevent any failure. Preventive maintenance is triggered by time, events, or meter readings. For example, changing lube oil every 6 months, changing the lube oil filter every 12 months, etc. A predictive task is a task to measure equipment condition. Predictive maintenance is based on the actual condition of the equipment rather than on time or age factors. It is used to predict machine failures before they occur, and also gives company enough time to schedule a future service appointment in advance, For example, vibration measurement every 3 months for a centrifugal pump or wall thickness measurement for a tank or pressure vessel using NDT tools named UT. Function test is a task to prove or to make sure that any system is functioning properly. for example, a function test of High-level alarm and switch in a tank.[…]

work and life balance tips

March 27, 2019 engineer life

achieving work-life balance Work can be very stressful. Starting a year, as an employee you will get targets to achieve from your boss. Some of them may be impossible to be reached. Your boss told You that you need to increase the bar. At the end of the year, you get a performance report. Your jobs and achievements will be evaluated. it happens to all employee in many industries. if you work in industry has very tight competition, then your targets will be much higher. Then you start to forget your life. You have not enough time to manage your health. Do you feel it? if you feel like this, you need to find work-life balance. Maintaining a healthy work-life balance is not only important for health and relationships, but it can also improve your employee’s productivity, and ultimately performance. Put simply, if your people don’t view work as a chore, then they will work harder, make fewer mistakes and are more likely to become advocates for your brand. Work-life balance refers to your belief that your personal and work lives are properly balanced. It means spending enough time achieving your goals and devoting time to the people and activities[…]

API 1104 Welding recommendation for pipeline

March 12, 2019 engineer Asset Integrity, NDT - Inspection, welding

Welding Code and standard There are 2 Welding code or standard that widely used in Oil and Gas facilities. ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC) section 9 provide welding requirement and specification used for Boiler, Pressure Vessel, Process Piping, Power Piping and other facilities. This section 9 is very famous and well known in engineering, welding and inspection community arround the world. API 1104 The second book is API 1104. This standard covers the gas and arc welding of butt, fillet, and socket welds in carbon and low-alloy steel piping used in the compression, pumping, and transmission of crude petroleum. petroleum products, fuel gases, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen and, where applicable, covers welding on distribution systems. It applies to both new construction and in-service welding.The welding may be done by a shielded metal-arc welding, submerged arc welding, gas tungsten-arc welding, gas metal-arc welding, flux-cored arc welding, plasma arc welding, oxyacetylene welding, or flash butt welding process or by a combination of these processes using a manual, semiautomatic, or automatic welding technique or a combination of these techniques. The welds may be produced by position or roll welding or by a combination of position and roll welding. This standard also[…]

why money can’t buy happiness

March 9, 2019 engineer life

“How are you doing?” “I am fine, thanks. how about You?” People always ask about our feeling condition, mental and emotional state. Do we feel happy today? this because we – the human being – always looking for happiness. Happiness in its broad sense is the label for a family of pleasant emotional states, such as joy, amusement, satisfaction, gratification, euphoria, and triumph. Happiness can be examined in experiential and evaluative contexts. People who have a purpose in life tend to feel happier in achieving goals. Be realistic. Get to know your situation and abilities when making a plan. Determine action-oriented goals. Don’t focus on certain things, what you have, or what you don’t have, but focus on what you can do. Look at your goals as a positive thing. Goals will be more easily achieved if you see them as something you can work on, instead of being something you want to avoid. As long as we can keep our minds focused on positive things, we will feel happy. Happiness is closely related to thoughts and feelings of the heart. happiness is not directly related to material such as the amount of wealth or the amount of monthly salary. Many[…]