Accidents involving rotating equipment in chemical, petrochemical, petroleum, and gas plants can result in damage to other process equipment and catalysts along with lost production. Conversely, process upsets, process instrumentation failure, or failures of other process equipment can result in damage to rotating equipment. An effective rotating equipment loss prevention program will be an int...

Product users are not usually thought of as product innovators. We have found, however, that 67% of the significant process equipment innovations in the two fields of semiconductor manufacture and electronic subassembly manufacture were in fact developed by equipment users rather than equipment manufacturers. Our analysis of the process by which these user innovations are transferred t o the fi...