Die Publikation stellt die Ergebnisse eines vom BIBB durchgeführten Forschungsvorhabens vor, welches die Bedarfslage eines möglichen staatlich geregelten dualen Ausbildungsberufes in der Medizinprodukteaufbereitung untersucht. Hierfür werden die betrieblichen Strukturen,...

Vietnam is considered as the country at extreme climate condition with the annual accumulated damage due to typhoons and floods that seriously destroyed houses and caused many deaths. The GCF Coastal Resilience Project (GCF project) comprises a component to build 4,000 storm- and flood-resistant...

A large international energy corporation owning power operations in several countries, including several generation plants as well as transmission and distribution units in Brazil's energy matrix, adopts for quite some time now the policy that performance monitoring should be left to each...

In a continuous production line, most of the machinery requires maintenance to ensure that they are working properly since the breakdown in one machine stops the whole production line. Therefore, preventive maintenance is always scheduled to ensure that machine parts are replaced and maintained....

Cavitation is a phenomenon that reduces the useful life of hydraulic machines, taking place in function of the variation of the pressure gradient at a constant temperature. In turbines, cavitation occurs when the turbine operates beyond nominal conditions, generating abnormal vibrations, erosion...