Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management: Proceeding of COMADEM 90: The Second International Congress on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management Brunel University 16–18 July 1990

Keynote.- Condition monitoring today and tomorrow — an airline perspective.- Condition monitoring today and tomorrow — a manufacturing perspective.- Machine/Plant/Process Health Monitoring.- Dynamic performance of a hydrostatic thrust bearing with an ERFS and grooved lands.- The use of stress wave sensors for the diagnosis of bearing faults.- Monitoring of check valves in reciprocating pumps.- Signature analysis of a gear box of turbine generator set.- Condition monitoring of wear using acoustic emission techniques.- The condition monitoring of machine tools.- Condition monitoring systems for machining applications.- Tool wear monitoring by the analysis of surface roughness.- Characterization of the acoustic emission behaviour during quasi static punching tests.- The determination of cutting tool condition using vibration signals.- Monitoring tool wear during the turning process.- Monitoring of a production grinding process.- The technique of mesh obscuration for debris monitoring — the COULTER LCM II.- Finding what matters — health monitoring by FCM.- Grease — a suitable case for condition monitoring.- Engine monitors for efficient take-off performance monitors.- Condition/performance monitoring of internal combustion engine by continuous measurements of crankshaft twist angle.- Rotating machinery noise and vibration study.- Vibration analysis as tool for computerised machine monitoring.- Using a PC based system for machinery transient analysis.- Condition monitoring of key elements in high speed textile machinery.- On the monitoring of a high speed mechanical feeder by means of an in-time windowing technique.- Condition-Based Maintenance Management.- Condition based maintenance.- Cost effective computer software in maintenance management.- Conditionmonitoring based maintenance in practice in a heavy chemical plant.- Condition monitoring at a continuous coal handling facility.- Condition-based maintenance in the FMMS environment.- Predictive maintenance programme for GEN sets and reciprocating MUD pumps of oil fields.- A case study of the maintenance of Second World War military jeeps in Bhopal: A study in the resourcefulness of the local mechanics.- Maintenance strategy in the ’90s.- Industrial Risk and Waste Management.- Risk and waste management in oil field.- Environmental Pollution Monitoring.- Environmental pollution monitoring in oil exploration and exploitation.- Quality and Reliability Management.- Comparison of the digraph and FAULTFINDER methods of fault tree synthesis for nested control systems.- A study on the hierarchal quality control in CIMS.- An experiment in automation of statistical process control using fuzzy logic.- Application of Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems.- Application of syntactic pattern recognition techniques to condition monitoring of machines.- An engineers’s assistant for balancing of flexible rotors.- On-line decision making for diagnostic and monitoring purposes.- Expert systems for quality management in glass container production.- System-independent approaches to diagnostic knowledge reasoning and representation for mechanical and thermal systems.- Intellectualization of faults diagnosis of rotating machinery — expert system.- Amethyst: An expert system for the diagnosis of rotating machinery.- Integration of a PC based expert system shell and production line tracking system for failure diagnosis and rework definition.- An expert system with circulating notice for emergency in underground coal mine.- Medical Monitoring and Diagnostics.- Detection of periods ofsignificant activity in noisy signals.- Application of an expert system on the monitoring of human lungs.- Intelligent classification in EMG decomposition.- Advances in Instrumentation and Control Technology.- Octave band revisited — machine condition monitoring using octave band data collectors.- Tool wear monitoring sensors.- System detection instrumentation.- Real-time model and kinematic control of machine tools.- Digital capacitance displacement measuring instrument.- Optimisation and diagnosis for numerically controlled machining.- In-process measurement using an opto-electronic probe.- A new three dimensdion piezoelectric transducer for diagnostic engineering.- Improving the prediction of condition using simple sensors.- A high accuracy test technology used for on-line measurement of abrasion wear in bearings.- Advances in Diagnostic Engineering.- Machine diagnostics using the concepts of resolution ratio and automatic timing.- Condition assessment and forecasting form plant diagnostic data with pareto model.- Drift-fault diagnostics using fault-curves fitted to changes in dynamic response.- Fundamentals of linear time-varying plant for diagnostic engineering.- Computer Vision.- An artificial intelligent vision system for inspection and monitoring.- TEXYS: A real-time picture processing system for on-line quality control.- Advances in NDT/NDE.- Moire photography in engineering measurement.- Photogrammetry in industry.- Energy Management.- Energy management for conversion in oil rigs.- Continuing Education.- Continuing education/training on computerized automation.- Novel Techniques of COMADEM.- Forecasting the change of operating condition for machinery via fuzzy classification.- Homosource ANC and its application to the machinery diagnosis.- The phaseinformation in the rotor vibration behaviour analysis.- In-situ measurement of cylindricity.- Three-dimensional component inspection using a profile projector equipped with a fibre optic sensor.- Author Index.