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Career in Reliability & Inspection

Career in Reliability & Inspection

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Can someone help me in identifying the ideal career path in the field of Reliability & Inspection. What sort of training is required and competencies that should first start with.

RE: Career in Reliability & Inspection

Reliability & Inspection is a pretty broad description. Can you provide more details about what you are interested in?

RE: Career in Reliability & Inspection

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Reliability of machinery to ensure the optimized plant UP-TIME figure, Overall Asset Effectiveness through Basic Care, Predictive Maintenance, Preventive maintenance undertaken to eliminate or extend the MTBF, inspection of static equipment and vibration analysis of the rotating equipment etc.

RE: Career in Reliability & Inspection

Assuming you have a degree and a good background in mechanical engineering (particularly machine design or similar coursework outside the HVAC realm), the rest will come from experience and the occasional specialized courses in predictive and preventive maintenance. The American Society for Quality Control might have some helpful info and check with the Life Cycle Institute (Life Cycle Engineering) to see their courses and info.

RE: Career in Reliability & Inspection

First thing would be to know what a machine is, what static equipment is and how to know the difference between them. Also how they work, why they break down and how to fix them. Maintenance experience in chemical or petrochemical plant is good.
For machine reliability there are RCM courses (see "Aladon network"), vibration analysis courses and more. For static equipment inspection there are various inspector certifications to ASME and API standards - see your local Boiler Safety authority.

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