Maintenance Is a Necessity and So Are These Titles!
ISA meets the needs of automation and control professionals worldwide by offering more than 180 print and online technical resources—including print books, digital books, magazines, journals, newsletters, software, technical papers, proceedings, and standards.
Preventive Maintenance,
Third Edition
J. D. Patton, Jr.
This third edition of a best-selling classic shows how the investment in a preventive maintenance program repays a company in longer equipment life, smoother operation, planning, and scheduling. It addresses major types of maintenance; advantages and disadvantages of PM; designing a PM program; economics of PM; nondestructive testing; scheduling; metrics; data issues; and much more.
Maintenance of Instruments & Systems, Second Edition
Lawrence D. Goettsche
This edition of ISA’s best-selling maintenance handbook provides comprehensive coverage of maintenance requirements for pneumatic and electrical/electronic devices as well as expanded coverage of DCS systems, analytical instrumentation, fiber optics, and smart instruments. Coverage is organized by devices to make finding the information quick and easy, making this an excellent reference for both the novice and the experienced technician.
Fieldbuses for Process Control: Engineering, Operation, and Maintenance
Jonas Berge
This implementation-oriented book provides a clear and concise presentation of how to apply fieldbuses for process control. Based on experience collected from end-users in a wide range of industries around the world, it provides “how-to” information for all phases of the system lifecycle from engineering to device and strategy configuration, installation, commissioning, troubleshooting, operation, and maintenance.
Maintainability & Maintenance Management, Fourth Edition
Joseph D. Patton, Jr.
This book emphasizes the concepts of preventive, predictive, and reliability-based total maintenance, as well as total quality management and continuous improvement. It provides an in-depth look at new technological advances and the cost advantages of investing in maintainability. Topics include maintainability program planning and management; system engineering of reliability, availability, and maintainability and configuration management.
Troubleshooting: A Technician’s Guide, Second Edition
William L. Mostia, Jr., PE
This resource is a no-nonsense discussion of what a good troubleshooter needs to know. The author provides an in-depth discussion of the basic logical framework that underlies all troubleshooting and advanced troubleshooting techniques. He also explores the causes of failures and the techniques engineers and technicians use to trace and resolve them.
Monitoring and Measuring I&C Performance in Nuclear Power Plants
H. M. Hashemian, PhD
Instrumentation and control (I&C) equipment ensures the safety, viability, and efficient operation of nuclear power plants by providing accurate and timely measurements of plant control and safety system variables, primarily temperature and pressure. These papers are based on the firsthand experience of the author’s company in servicing and testing nuclear power plants worldwide.
Advances in Reactor Measurement and Control
Gregory K. McMillan
Written from a practical perspective, this book underscores how control system design can address the different process responses and fundamental characteristics of the major types of reactors in the process industry. This book enables readers to learn what measurements, control strategies, controller features, and tuning parameters will achieve process objectives for a given type of reactor.
Calibration Handbook of Measuring Instruments
Alessandro Brunelli
This book is written mainly for operators who verify and calibrate measuring instruments used in Quality Management Systems ISO 9001, Environment Applications ISO 14001, Automotive Industry ISO 16949, and Aviation Industry EN 9100. It is a handy reference and consultation handbook that covers useful topics on assuring and managing industrial process measurement.
Calibration: A Technician's Guide
Mike Cable
This comprehensive review of process instrument calibration provides a foundation for understanding the principles and applications of the most frequent tasks that a technician performs. It also serves as an excellent study guide for the Calibration domain in CCST certification.
Sensor Performance and Reliability
H. M. Hashemian, PhD
This book helps you understand how to objectively assess the accuracy, response time, residual life, and other characteristics of installed instrumentation and offers a practical means to identify problems, assess their consequences, and help resolve them. It provides applications in power, chemical, aerospace, and other industries.
Loop Checking: A Technician's Guide
Harley M. Jeffery
This technician’s guide defines loop checking in the broader scope of control loop performance in addition to the more traditional terms of plant start-up. It discusses general methods and practices that can be applied across many processes/industries. Featured topics include loop checking basics, factory acceptance testing, wiring and loop checks, performance benchmarking, and sustaining performance.
Essentials of Modern Measurements and Final Elements in the Process Industry: A Guide to Design, Configuration, Installation, and Maintenance
Gregory K. McMillan
This comprehensive resource aims to increase awareness of the opportunities afforded by modern measurement instruments and final elements, and to show how to get maximum benefit from the revolution in smart technologies.