Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices

✍ Scribed by Gulati, Ramesh

• Publisher: Industrial Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 393
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In the maintenance and reliability (M&R) field, professionals are constantly challenged to implement the best way to ensure equipment is available as and when it is needed at a reasonable cost. To truly realize a best practice requires learning, re-learning, benchmarking and implementing better ways of ensuring high reliability and availability of equipment and systems. This book is designed to support that learning process. Written by professionals with 60 plus years of shop floor and management experience in a variety of industries, this resource will help seasoned professionals and novices understand the basic principles of maintenance and reliability. Written in an easy-to-read format, each chapter discusses the concepts with specific questions and answers. Each topic answers the what, why or how of the topic being presented. Understanding and implementing M&R practices in a cost-effective way is essential. This is perfect book for all in the work force of an organization who need to have a solid understanding of M&R.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter
• Preface
• Table of Contents
1. Introducing Best Practices
2. Culture and Leadership
3. Understanding Maintenance
4. Work Management: Planning and Scheduling
5. Materials, Parts, and Inventory Management
6. Measuring and Designing for Reliability and Maintainability
7. The Role of Operations
8. PM Optimization
9. Managing Performance
10. Workforce Management
11. M&R Analysis Tools
12. Current Trends and Practices
• Answer Key and Explanations
• Supplemental Glossary
Index