Improving Overhaul Process on Steam Power Plants using Lean Thinking and LCA

Improving Project Management with Lean Thinking?

In the new business economy, project management has become a central way for undertaking several of the business activities. One of the increasing and most significant concerns with projects is that, projects are behind schedule, over budget and show unsatisfactory performance in terms quality and customer satisfaction. In the last few decades the manufacturing industry successfully improved qu...

Power Plants, Steam and Gas Turbines WebQuest

A WebQuest is an Internet-based and inquiry-oriented learning activity. The aim of this work is to outline the creation of a WebQuest entitled “Power Generation Plants: Steam and Gas Turbines.” This is one of the topics covered in the course “Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer,” which is offered in the second year of Mechanical Engineering at the Defense University Center at the Naval Academy in ...

White Paper: Impact of Failed Steam Traps on Process Plants

This paper is meant to give a background into the purpose of steam traps, failure modes and consequences, and current methods to detect failure. While we give a broad overview of legacy and new methods of implementing a steam trap health monitoring system, the desired outcome would be for Rosemount, Inc. to work with you in a collaborative relationship to find the solutions that best fit your n...

Moving-on — beyond lean thinking

Lean Thinking is current ly of t en posit ioned as t he underlying t heory of lean product ion among pract it ioners and academics, al t hough it s originat ors, Womack and Jones, seem not t o have present ed it as a t heory. This paper endeavours t o analyze whet her Lean Thinking can be viewed as a t heory of lean product ion. For t his purpose, a crit ical assessment of Lean Thinking is carr...

Lean Manufacturing Principles Improving the Targeting Process