Providing readers with a clear rationale for doing maintenance, this completely updated edition and unique guide is written in a language and style that practicing engineers and managers can understand and apply easily. Effective Maintenance Management examines the role of maintenance in minimizing the risks relating to safety or environmental incidents, adverse publicity, and loss of profitability. In addition to discussing risk reduction tools, it explains their applicability to specific situations so the readers can select the tool that fits their requirements. Aiding to bridge the gap between designers/maintainers and reliability engineers, this guide is sure to help businesses utilize their assets effectively, safely, and profitably.
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1 : The Production and Distribution Process
Chapter 2 : Process Functions
Chapter 3 : Reliability Engineering for the Maintenance Practitioner
Chapter 4 : Failure, Its Nature and Characteristics
Chapter 5 : Life Cycle Aspects of Risks in Process Plants
Chapter 6 : Process Plant Shutdowns
Chapter 7 : Facets of Risk
Chapter 8 : The Escalation of Events
Chapter 9 : Maintenance
Chapter 10 : Risk Reduction
Chapter 11 : Information for Decision Making
Chapter 12 : The Reliability Improvement Process (TRIP)
Chapter 13 : Improving System Effectiveness
Chapter 14 : Book Summary
Glossary
Index