In an ideal world, operational plants will operate smoothly, and equipment will always be taken out of service for maintenance at the scheduled manufacturer’s recommendations. Reality is always a different picture and on occasion there may be emergencies that cause equipment to go out of service, and interrupt the regularly scheduled programme. For an operational plant, unscheduled downtime is a costly occurrence, that can be quite costly. The ability to forecast future failures, is now possible, via the advent of technologies like vibration analysis. With predictive capabilities, adequate...