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Mr Ray Beebe
Senior Lecturer, Engineering & MRE Coordinator
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Located at: Room 3W-251, Gippsland Campus
Postal address: School of Applied Sciences and Engineering
Monash University Gippsland Campus, Churchill, Victoria, 3842, Australia
Phone: +61 3 512 26496 or +61 3 990 26496
Fax: +61 3 512 26738 or +61 3 990 26738
Email: Ray.Beebe@sci.monash.edu.au
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Joining Monash University in 1992, as well as teaching and research, Ray co-ordinates the postgraduate programs in maintenance and reliability engineering, offered by off campus learning (in North America in association with the University of Tennessee). In 28 years as a professional engineer in power generation, Ray had many technical and managerial achievements in power stations and central specialist units in Australia. This included two years on a Scholarship in the UK power industry and a year improving the thermal efficiency of a steam power station interstate. Ray had parallel involvement in condition monitoring/predictive maintenance development and application that resulted in establishment of advanced vibration analysis techniques in Victoria's power stations and open cut mines.
Ray received the Collacott Prize three times from the Institution of Diagnostic Engineers, and was awarded the 2004 Sir George Julius Medal by Engineers Australia for the best publication in the field of mechanical engineering.
Ray has consulted and presented many short courses in plant performance and predictive maintenance/condition monitoring across Australia and in other countries. He is a frequent presenter at technical conferences in Australia and overseas, has written two books and many papers and is often invited to speak at company and industry events. Many of his papers have also appeared in technical magazines and websites and in other books. His 6 years service in the Royal Australian Engineers (CMF) was recognised in 2007 with the Australian Defence Medal.
Teaching Commitments
Ray teaches postgraduate units, with some undergraduate involvement. Since 1996, he has been Co-ordinator of the Monash programs in maintenance management and reliability engineering. Each year, he advises for several of the postgraduate student projects.
Ray is the unit advisor for the following units:
Research Interests
Ray researches applications of condition monitoring, as related to business results in optimising maintenance, and with a particular interest in performance analysis and its benefits in improving energy efficiency.
Professional Affiliations
- Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia (1989) (past office-bearer in Gippsland Group)
- Chartered Professional Engineer
- Member, ASME
- Member, Maintenance Engineering Society Australia (Founder and current Chairman, Gippsland Chapter)
- Rotarian since 1993 and in Scouts Australia since 1962 (now non-uniformed work)
Selected Publications
Books
Selected recent papers
- Experience with education in maintenance and reliability engineering by off campus learning, Proceedings of WCEAM (World Congress on Engineering Asset Management/International Conference of Maintenance Societies, ICOMS2006), Gold Coast, July 2006
- Monitoring central gland leakage on combined HP-IP casing steam turbines, Proceedings of WCEAM (World Congress on Engineering Asset Management/International Conference of Maintenance Societies, ICOMS2006), Gold Coast July 2006
- Steam turbine performance condition monitoring using plant instrumentation: case study, Proceedings of International Conference of Maintenance Societies, ICOMS2005, Hobart June 2005
- Is your control room data telling you what you think it is?, Proceedings of International Conference of Maintenance Societies, ICOMS2005, Hobart, June 2005 (reprinted in ASSET MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE JOURNAL, Oct 2006)
- Condition monitoring by performance analysis, 11th Annual Conference, Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals, Indianapolis, November 2003
- Condition monitoring of steam turbines by performance analysis, Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, Vol 9, No 2, 2003, Page: 102 – 112 (2004 Highly Commended Award from Literati Club of Emerald Publishing)
- Thinkers and doers: case study in change of a maintenance and engineering organization, Proceedings of International Conference of Maintenance Societies, ICOMS2003, Perth, May 2003
- Use PdM to optimise overhauls on pumps, 11th Process and Power Plant Reliability Conference, Houston, November 2003 (reprinted in HYDROCARBON PROCESSING, April, 2003)
- Thermometric testing of high pressure pumps using pipe surface measurements, Proceedings 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference of Systems Integrity and Maintenance, ACSIM2002, Cairns, September, 2002
- Investigation of vibration on low pressure turbines and Control of vibration with a dynamic absorber, Proceedings of International Conference of Maintenance Societies, ICOMS2002, Brisbane, May 2002
- Lessons in condition monitoring from the varsity of life, Proceedings of International Conference of Maintenance Societies, ICOMS2001, Melbourne, May 2001
- Case studies in condition monitoring of low pressure steam turbines by performance analysis and Condition monitoring of heat exchangers, Proceedings of COMADEM2000, Houston, USA, December 2000
- Condition monitoring of fossil-fueled boilers, Proceedings 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference of Systems Integrity and Maintenance, ACSIM2000, Nanjiang, China, August 2000 (also published in MAINTENANCE JOURNAL V14, No3, July 2001, and in MAINTENANCE & ASSET MANAGEMENT, Vol 17 (6), 2002)
- Diagnosis and solution of resonant whirl on a steam turbine generator, Proceedings 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference of Systems Integrity and Maintenance, ACSIM2000, Nanjiang, China, August 2000
- Use condition monitoring data to tune your pump, ICOMS2000, Wollongong, Australia, May 2000 (reprinted in RELIABILITY, Vol 8 (3), August 2001, and in Ingenieria y Gestion de MANTENIMIENTO, No 26, Nov/Dec 2002)
- Improving thermal efficiency in a fossil-fueled power station, INT-PEC99 – The First International Power and Energy Conference, Churchill 1999
- Condition monitoring of the steam path in turbines, Proceedings of COMADEM 98, Launceston, December 1998, ISBN 0 7326 2027 9, Vol 1 of 2, pp 87-92 (reprinted in RELIABILITY, Vol 9 (1), 2002)
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