Title: 100 Years of Maintenance and Reliability : Practical Lessons from Three Lifetimes at Process Plants Author: James W. Wardhaugh, Mahen C. Das, V. Narayan ISBN: 0831133236 / 9780831133238 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 350 Publisher: Industrial Press Year: 2008 Availability: In Stock
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“This book is an essential tool to help pass on the wealth of knowledge of best practices to future generations of maintenance leaders. My only hope is that lots of professionals read it so that many companies and economies reap the benefits of these solid practices.”
Joel Leonard
“The Maintenance Evangelist”
MPACT Learning Center
"The book represents a great wealth of practical experience on many topics ... an essential primer on maintenance topics ... from a practical point of view. I will make this required reading by the SAMI maintenance consultants. There is certainly food for thought even for the most experienced manager."
S. Bradley Peterson
President
Strategic Asset Management, Inc.
“This is a must read for people who have to struggle with the day-to-day problems of plant life. If you have a subordinate field position in a manufacturing facility, this book will reveal why bosses do the things they do. If you are in a supervisory or management role, this book will help you steer your career.”
Charles J. Latino
CEO and President
Reliability Center, Inc.
This unique and practical book describes 42 real-life events and/or situations in the careers of the three authors from which they gained insights into the applicable best practices in maintenance and reliability. The authors explain the underlying philosophies where relevant, drawing on the teachings of the leading thinkers in leadership and management. Designed to share knowledge and experience with the readers, in a readily accessible fashion, this resource does not tell the readers what to do or how to do it; it merely explains the event or situation the authors faced, and how they dealt with it. Readers can choose whether they wish to adopt or adapt the authors’ examples. These stories are dynamic illustrations of real life situations which readers will recognize in their own work situations. With a vast potential for improvements in reliability and maintenance performance in industry, these well proven approaches and best practices are sure to help stimulate improved performance on all fronts--safety and environmental, production, maintenance costs, and reputation!
• Provides a logical organization with chapters grouped into six broad headings, enabling readers to choose the order in which they wish to absorb the lessons, which are based on the Shewhart-Deming Continuous Improvement cycle.
• In addition to the Plan-Schedule-Execute-Analyze elements, the authors have added Leadership and People to complete the suite.
• Each chapter has broadly similar sections, beginning with a Background to the events, going on to describe the key elements of the approach, and ending with Lessons and Principles.
• Underlying theories, philosophies or even detailed descriptions of methods are stripped out of the main chapters and described in Appendices, so that only those readers who wish to delve into details may do so.
• Contains a Book Summary which draws all the principles and lessons together, and gives references to the relevant chapters.
• Copiously illustrated, with charts, diagrams and tables which relate closely to the text.
Foreword by Charles J.Latino
Part 1: Introduction Chapter 1 : Introduction & Navigation Guide Chapter 2 : The Locations
Part 2: Leadership Chapter 3 : Creating the vision Chapter 4 : Setting Objectives Chapter 5 : Changing Paradigms with Leadership and Expertise Chapter 6 : Applying Best Business Practices Chapter 7 : Evaluating Contractor's Unit Rates Chapter 8 : Benchmarking
Part 3 : People Chapter 9 : Staffing levels Chapter 10 : Integrating Inspection and Degradation Strategies Chapter 11 : Technician Training Challenge Chapter 12 : Competence Profiles Chapter 13 : Operators & Maintainers Chapter 14 : Building a Reliability Culture Chapter 15 : Managing Surplus Staff Chapter 16 : Retraining Surplus Staff
Part 5 : Schedule Chapter 24 : Long Look-Ahead Plan Chapter 25 : Workload Management Chapter 26 : Infrastructure Maintenance Chapter 27 : Workflow Management
Part 6 : Execute Chapter 28 : Trip Testing Chapter 29 : Work the Plan Chapter 30 : Keeping to Schedule Chapter 31 : Operators as a Maintenance Resource Chapter 32 : Overtime Control Chapter 33 : Managing Contractors
Part 7 : Analyze Chapter 34 : Reliability Engineering in New Projects Chapter 35 : Computing Reliability Data Chapter 36 : Turnaround Performance Improvements Chapter 37 : Reducing Shutdown Duration Chapter 38 : A Small Matter of Cleaning Chapter 39 : Motor Maintenance Regimes Chapter 40 : Boiler Feed-Water Pump Seals Chapter 41 : Cooling Water Pump Failures Chapter 42 : Heater Outlet Flue Gas Dampers Chapter 43 : Laboratory Oven Failures Chapter 44 : Pump Reliability Chapter 45 : Book Summary