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Operations and Maintenance
6 resources tagged “Operations and Maintenance” across the knowledge library.
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Guide4 Aug 2026Closing the Loop: Fly-by-Wire, Functional Safety and Propulsive LandingThree milestones in which software became the thing keeping a machine stable, and one standard written because that made software a structural safety concern.7 min readRead MoreGuide4 Aug 2026Computation as Infrastructure: Utility Computing and Machine Learning at ScaleTwo recent milestones included for their engineering content rather than settled historical weight: computing became a utility, and pattern recognition became a matter of scale.5 min readRead MoreGuide4 Aug 2026Machines That Sustain Life: Dialysis, the Heart-Lung Machine and the PacemakerThree devices that take over the function of an organ, under constraints unlike anything else in engineering: the load cannot be reduced and there is no safe shutdown state.6 min readRead MoreGuide4 Aug 2026Manufacturing Drinking Water: Seawater Reverse Osmosis and Supply SecurityAustralian metropolitan desalination turned urban water supply from a hydrological problem into an energy and membrane one, and produced an asset with an unusual duty profile.6 min readRead MoreGuide4 Aug 2026Power to the Water: Screw Propulsion, Expansion Engines and Oil FiringFour milestones in which marine propulsion moved from consuming most of the ship to leaving room for the cargo that paid for it.5 min readRead MoreGuide4 Aug 2026The Petroleum Value Chain: From the First Oil Well to the Modern RefineryA cased, drilled well and fractional distillation created an industry in two years. How well construction, barrier philosophy and refinery architecture actually work.6 min readRead More