COMADEM 89 International

Key Note Lecture 1.- Total Quality in NDT and Condition Monitoring.- Key Note Lecture 2.- Condition-based Maintenance — Where to Next?.- Key Note Lecture 3.- Condition Monitoring in Manufacturing.- Machinery/Systems Health Monitoring.- Assessment of Symptom Limit Value in Vibration Condition Monitoring.- Turbomachinery Failure Detection — Combination of Transfer Matrix and Finite Element Method.- Diagnostic for Mechanical Systems through Analysing Variations in Vibration Signatures.- Identification and Digital Control of a Turbo-charged Marine Diesel Engine.- Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic of a Diesel Engine through Detecting Changes in Estimated Dynamic Models.- The Fulmer Method of Monitoring Fluid Abrasivity as an Indication of Fluid Condition and Machine Health.- Practical Gear Fault Diagnosis Using Vibration-based Methods.- COMPASS: A Generalized Ground-based Monitoring System.- Computer-Aided Machine Health Monitoring.- A Revolution in Rotating Machinery Monitoring.- Quality, Reliability, Health and Safety.- Inspection of Re-manufactured Gearboxes Using Noise Analysis.- Reliability of Aircraft High Lift Devices.- A Design Study of a Production Centrifuge with Respect to Maintainability and Condition Monitoring.- A Personal Computer Based Burn-in System.- Development of a Micro-computer Based System for On-line Monitoring of the Reliability Characteristics of a Recycle Gas Compressor.- A Fiscal and Process Controller for a Hardboard Mill.- The Assessment of Availability through Simulation.- Automatic Environmental Monitoring.- A Supervisory Officer’s Guide to Effective Interviewing/Counselling of Personnel Suspected of Having an Alcohol Dependency Problem.- Plant and Process Health Monitoring.- System for Real Time Process Monitoring and Adaptive Control during CNC Hole Drilling.- Plant Health Monitoring Using a Turbine Flowmeter.- Real Time Monitoring of Roll Cooling Water Flow Rate.- Health Monitoring of Motorised Valve Actuators and Similar Devices.- Blanking Process Characterization Using Acoustic Emission.- A Monitor for the Cooling System of a Large Electrical Generator.- Pump Performance — Its Application to Condition Monitoring.- The Monitoring of the Alignment of Continuous Casting Machines.- Application of Expert Systems in COMADEM.- The Adaptive Acoustic Monitoring of Aircraft Engines.- Power System Network Loadflow Management Using Fuzzy Knowledge-based Expert System.- Towards Unmanned Manufacture: Applications of an Expert System.- Expert Systems Applied to Gas Turbine Condition Monitoring.- Post Flight Analysis of EH 101 Helicopter Maintenance Data.- A Strategy of Knowledge Elicitation for the Monitoring and Control of Industrial Processes.- Computerised Technical Documentation.- A Diagnostic Expert System which Generates Explanations.- The Application of Expert Systems and Computer Simulation Technologies to Process Monitoring and Control.- Computer-assisted Analysis of Evoked Transients.- Information/Data Management.- Development of Computer-aided Data Acquisition, Control and Analysis System (CADACAS) for Remote Condition Monitoring.- Data Acquisition System for High Strain Fatigue Testing.- On Maintaining and Reasoning with Incomplete Information.- Decision Support Systems for Manufacturing Management.- Concurrent System Behaviour.- Condition-based Maintenance Management.- Inspect or Monitor? — How to choose Maintenance Policy by Matrix Algebre.- Maintenance Management Technique for Small-sized Road Construction Companies.- Condition-based Maintenance System Engineering.- Effective Machinery Fault Diagnosis Avoids Unnecessary Gearbox Maintenance (Case Study).- Automatic Condition Monitoring in the Hot Strip Mill of Rautaruukki Oy Raahe Steel Works.- On-line Surveillance for Predictive Maintenance in a Hazardous Environment.- Cost-effective Condition Monitoring.- Debris Counting for Consistent Monitoring.- Monitoring Liquid Levels.- Why Put Up with Bearing Failures?.- Computerised Maintenance Scheme for a Process Industry Using Monte-Carlo Simulation Technique.- The Fundamentals of, and the Application of Computers to, Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance.- The Use of Thermography in Industrial Predictive Maintenance.- Set Vibration Alarm Levels without Guesswork.- Advances in Instrumentation and Control Technology.- Sampling Techniques for Monitoring Sinusoidal Waveforms.- Surface Temperature and Heat Flow Measurement.- High Quality Non-contact Measurement Using Capacitance Gauges.- Analysis of Sigma Delta Modulators.- Dynamic Tip Clearance Measurements in Axial Flow Compressors.- A Portable Scanning Laser Vibrometer for Surface Vibration Analysis.- Clean Window Design for Optical Access.- Numerical Solution of the Matrix Riccati Equation for a Time Variant Jet Engine System.- Non-linear Optimal Tracking Problem for Jet Engine Control.- Advances in Diagnostic Technology.- Technical Diagnostics of Shafts and Bearings by Analysing Relative Speeds.- Ferrogram Quantitive Analyser — Its Application in Industry.- Methods and Experiences in the Application of Technical Diagnosis for Prevention and Early Detection of Damages to Components of the Water-Steam-Cycle of Thermal Power Stations.- Energy Monitoring and Management.- An Experimental Facility for Investigation into the Control and Monitoring of Energy Consumption of VAV and CAV Air Conditioning Systems.- Advanced Control Techniques for Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS).- Energy Management and Optimisation Using Adaptive Control Techniques.- Condition Monitoring of Offshore Structures and Installations.- Monitoring and Control of Unmanned Machinery at Sea.- Condition Monitoring for Fatigue — Implications of Fatigue Crack Shape.- Biofouling on Offshore Installations — An Impact and Monitoring Assessment.- Advances in Non-destructive Testing (NDT)/Non-destructive Evaluation (NDE).- The Monitoring of Industrial Processes Using Ultrasound.- Condition Monitoringof British Gas Pipelines.- Novel Application of COM ADEM Techniques.- Research on Quantitave Ferrography Technology.- Wear Detection of a Vane Using a Novel Flowmeter Phenomenon.- Condition Monitoring Using Conventional Process Instrumentation.- Condition Monitoring of Bends in Pneumatic Conveying Systems.- Stress Wave Sensing — A New Measurand for Condition Monitoring.- Novel Adaptive Control Schemes for Peripheral Milling.- A New Technique for Condition Monitoring of Rolling Element Bearings Using a Portable Data Collector.- Continuing Education and Training in COMADEM.- On Condition Monitoring and Maintenance.- Computer-based Training in Statistical Quality Control.- A Project to Examine the Use of Open Learning Techniques in COMADEM.- Author Index.