Author: Vern Maddox

Vernon L. Maddox, Jr., P.E. is a Mechanical Engineer with over 47 years domestic and international experience in rotating machinery selection, installation, startup, maintenance, problem solving, and vibration analysis. His experience includes the machinery engineering, commissioning, startup and operation of a world-class ethylene plant and many smaller facilities. He has established, and supervised engineering groups at two plant sites involved in machinery reliability and condition monitoring/vibration analysis. Mr. Maddox is a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas.

Character and Requirements for Accountability in Machinery Reliability

By: Vern Maddox Monday, June 27, 2022

Machinery

The people side of component or system failures is rarely addressed, identified or corrected. Evaluation of the people side of equipment failures may be of more value than failure reports or looking at the actual mechanical failure. Let’s talk about personal accountability and the consequences of having too little accountability, and in some cases zero […]