Optimizing Equipment
Life-Cycle Decisions
edited by John D. Campbell
and Andrew Jardine
Considering maintenance from a proactive, rather than reactive, perspective, Maintenance Excellence details the strategies, tools, and solutions for maximizing the productivity of physical assets—focusing on profitability potential!
It addresses contemporary concerns, key terms, data requirements, critical methodologies, and essential mathematical needs! Presenting maintenance in a business context and reviewing planning, measurement, feedback, and techniques related to cost, efficiency, and results, Maintenance Excellence:
- Summarizes applications of tools and software from statistics and neural networks to cost-optimized models
- Examines the strengths and weaknesses of traditional Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM), including comparisons of aircraft vs. military vs. industrial, functional vs. hardware, and classical (thorough) vs. streamlined and "lite" versions
- Provides a framework for achieving reliable equipment, establishing the economic life of physical assets, optimal inspection policies, and appropriate resource levels
- Highlights Balance Scorecard and shaft-alignment case history as effective examples for strengthening performance at macro and micro levels
- Discusses critical functions of Computer Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems, and key selection and implementation criteria
- Describes fundamentals of maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) materials and develops a five-step cycle procurement process
- And much more!
Maintenance Excellence serves as an essential reference for mechanical, industrial, maintenance, and reliability engineers; plant operations and engineering managers; general managers responsible for physical asset management; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.
Contents
- Introduction
Maintenance Management Fundamentals
- Maintenance Management Methodologies
- Measurement in Maintenance Management
- Data Acquisition
- Materials Management Optimization
Managing Equipment Reliability
- Assessing and Managing Risk
- Reliability by Design: Reliability Centered Maintenance
- Reliability by Operator: Total Productive Maintenance
Optimizing Maintenance Decisions
- Reliability Management and Maintenance Optimization: Basic Statistics and Economics
- Maintenance Optimization Models
- Optimizing Maintenance and Replacement Decisions
- Optimizing Condition-Based Maintenance
Conclusion
- Achieving Maintenance Excellence
Appendix
Index
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