Reliability of machines and typical failure rates
It is necessary to identify the condition monitoring that needs to be applied to detect those faults covered in the previous chapter. Condition monitoring has been seen primarily as the province of those who analyse fault signals and interpret results. However, interpretation must be informed by causality and the authors' view is that one of the important changes to occur in condition monitoring over the last 30 years is ensuring that it is firmly directed towards the root causes of machine failure. In so doing, successful condition monitoring directly addresses machine unreliability or, more importantly for the operator, lack of availability. This chapter sets out the issues concerned with this causality.
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