Tribology and Maintenance of Machinery - A Review

The present paper considers the tribologicalprinciples on the maintenance of machinery whose threeimportant areas are – Preventive, Condition Based and Proactive.Although breakdown is kept out of view, the morphology andanalysis of failure provide important inputs for maintenancestrategies. Condition based maintenance depends on three D’s –Detection, Diagnosis and Decision. In many machinery systems,the problem of predicting the remaining useful life – the Proactivepart of the program, and evaluating the cost benefits are ofenormous importance. Here the authors endeavor to highlighthow the tribologist can significantly improve the maintenancepractice