PERD Publications

Published in September 1998, the book, Guidelines for Improving Plant Performance through Data Collection and Analysis, describes the essential elements and information involved, including failure modes, equipment boundaries, and software to house the data. This book also contains examples of how the data can be used to perform value-added analysis to support maintenance optimization, improved design and quantitative risk analysis. Other publications of interest may be.

Related Books

• Guidelines for Process Equipment Reliability Data, with Data Tables  
• Guidelines for Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis, 2nd Edition  
• Layer of Protection Analysis: Simplified Process Risk Assessment  
• International Conference and Workshop on Reliability and Risk Management, San Antonio, 1998 (Contact ccps@aiche.org for further information on this title.)

Related Papers

• Predicting Relief Valve Reliability -Results of the API Risk-Based Inspection and AIChE/CCPS Equipment Reliability Database Groups
• Establishing a Data Farm to Harvest Quality Information
• Failure Analysis: Using the Right Tool Speeds Reliability Improvement
• CCPS Equipment Reliability Database; An Industry Foundation
•  Where For Art Thou Failure Rate Data
• Meeting the SIS Standard’s Challenge – Users and Manufacturers Working Together

Please direct any questions concerning PERD to Dave Belonger at Dave Belonger at dbelonger@verizon.net or to Scott Berger at ccps@aiche.org.