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|Articles|October 1, 2021
New rotating machinery maintenance manual
Author(s)TMI Staff & Contributors
Forsthoffer's Proven Guidelines for Rotating Machinery Excellence aims to imbue the new generation of workers with decades' worth of maintenance knowledge.
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A new book by William Forsthoffer aims to provide a blueprint for rotating machinery best practices for entry-level personnel. Forsthoffer's Proven Guidelines for Rotating Machinery Excellence focuses on developing rotating machinery awareness and leverage that knowledge into improving safety and reliability. It also contains detailed functional analyses of key rotating machinery components as well as a guide on performing a Root Cause Analysis.
William Forsthoffer is President of Forsthoffer Associates, USA. He has over 60 years of experience in the rotating machinery industry and has published 6 books on the subject. Forsthoffer has worked for Siemens and ExxonMobil, among others.
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