Asset management excellence : optimizing equipment life-cycle decisions

✍ Scribed by Campbell, John D.; McGlynn, Joel; Jardine, Andrew Kennedy Skilling

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 489
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

During the eight years since the publication of "Maintenance Excellence: Optimizing Equipment Life-Cycle Decisions", the business environment has changed drastically. Globalization, consolidation, and changes in technology challenge asset management and maintenance professionals to be more efficient. Globalization and consolidation have been particularly instrumental in the changes in maintenance standards, approaches, and the use of technology to become more efficient and cost effective. Reflecting all this and more, the second edition has been renamed: "Asset Management Excell. Read more...

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Globalization, consolidation, and changes in technology challenge asset management and maintenance professionals to be more efficient. This book provides coverage of leadership issues, the implementation of new processes, and change management. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Editors
Contributors
Chapter 1: Asset Management Excellence
Body
Section I: Maintenance Management Fundamentals
Chapter 2: Asset Classes and the World of Life-Cycle Asset Management
Chapter 3: A Framework for Asset Management
Chapter 4: Measurement in Maintenance Management
Chapter 5: Information Management and Related Technology
Chapter 6: Materials Management Optimization
Section II: Managing Equipment Reliability
Chapter 7: Assessing and Managing Risk
Chapter 8: Reliability by Design
Chapter 9: Reliability by Operator.