Engineering Maintenance: A Modern Approach / Edition 1

by B.S. Dhillon

Overview

Of the more than $300 billion spent on plant maintenance and operations, U.S. industry spends as much as 80 percent of this amount to correct chronic failures of machines, systems, and people. With machines and systems becoming increasingly complex, this problem can only worsen, and there is a clear and pressing need to establish comprehensive equipment management programs that incorporate the diverse considerations that are essential to effective maintenance.

Engineering Maintenance: A Modern Approach presents a cradle-to-grave strategy to preserve equipment function, avoid the consequences of failures, and ensure the productive capacity of equipment. Moving well beyond traditional approaches, this strategy incorporates quality and safety, human error, and software maintenance considerations along with costing, reliability, and maintainability. From specialized books and technical articles, the author has gathered and integrated the latest advances in engineering maintenance into practical, step-by-step plans designed to optimize maintenance activities, extend equipment life, and minimize failures.

The elimination of chronic failures through effective maintenance can reduce maintenance costs by 40 to 60 percent. Engineering Maintenance: A Modern Approach not only collects recent advances into a single volume, but also directs you on a path that can lead to a more successful, cost-effective maintenance program.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367342098
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	05/21/2019
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	508,718
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

B.S. Dhillon has been teaching reliability, maintainability, and related subjects for more than 21 years and is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has received many professional society awards, worked extensively in the industrial sector, and authored numerous articles and books on various aspects of system reliability, maintainability, safety, and design.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Maintenance Mathematics. Maintenance Management and Control. Preventive Maintenance. Corrective Maintenance. Reliability Centered Maintenance. Inventory Control in Maintenance. Human Error in Maintenance. Quality and Safety in Maintenance. Maintenance Costing. Software Maintenance. Reliability. Maintainability.

Editorial Reviews

"The author has gathered and integrated the latest advances in engineering maintenance into practical step-by-step plans to optimize maintenance activities, extend equipment life, and minimize failures."
-MEBOOKSHELF

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