Author : V. Narayan
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Engineering
ISBN :
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.
Author : Stephen J. Thomas
Publisher : Industrial Press Inc.
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780831131906
This unique and innovative book explains how to improve your maintenance and reliability performance at the plant level by changing the organizations culture. It is specifically intended for middle managers in the manufacturing and process industries. This book demystifies the concept of organizational culture and links it with the eight elements of change: leadership, work process, structure, group learning, technology, communication, interrelationships, and rewards. If you want to break the cycle of failed improvement programs and instead use cultural change to help make significant and lasting improvements in plant performance, this book will show you how. Features Explains in-depth the eight elements of change and how they relate to cultural change. Discusses cultural change with a reliability focus.Includes a PowerPoint presentation with audio on the enclosed CD-ROM, together with a web survey model, the Web of Organizational Change.
Author : John Moubray
Publisher : Industrial Press Inc.
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780831131463
Completely reorganised and comprehensively rewritten for its second edition, this guide to reliability-centred maintenance develops techniques which are practised by over 250 affiliated organisations worldwide.
Author : Donald H. Nyman
Publisher : Industrial Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 20,35 MB
Release : 2021-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780831136611
The quest for reliability is long overdue! In the case of many operations, realization of sustained reliability is still a work in progress. Very few organizations have completed the journey to world-class reliability. The vast majority still operate within a reactive culture, allowing response to repetitive failures to consume an excessive proportion of already limited maintenance resources, and leaving too few for performance of any proactive activities. In today's competitive international environment, enterprise survival is a battle of the fittest. To survive, organizations must achieve "world-class" stature, characterized by wellness, readiness, and application required for a company to successfully compete globally. That's why Maintenance and Operational Reliability is so important. This work is organized by the foundation and 5 Pillars of Maintenance/Reliability Excellence, plus 24 Building Blocks, as depicted throughout the book. This pillar graphic shows the functions, management techniques, systems, information sources and performance management vital to the maintenance and reliability process, and also serves as an important visual aid for the education of the entire organization. So, how is the ultimate, but challenging reliability goal to be achieved? Are you prepared to manage, support, process, and interpret the magnitude of information in real time, critical to making the right business decisions to achieve a competitive advantage? The authors, two veteran maintenance and reliability experts, have collected all the essentials leading to reliability here, in one practical resource, connecting and sequencing the integral pieces for world-class reliability. Features Guides readers through the journey from classic reactive repair upon failure to reliable, proactive maintenance, engineered to preclude failure and, ultimately, to sustain reliability. Clarifies roles and responsibilities of involved functions while explaining control tools to be deployed by each position. Provides the overriding business justification required to gain senior management commitment.
Author : Ramesh Gulati
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 19,77 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Reliability (Engineering)
ISBN : 9780982516362
This book represents a significant step towards improving the knowledge of, and communications between, members of the Maintenance and Reliability Profession.With more than 3000 entries, the compilation reflects a virtual explosion of commonly practiced concepts, ideas, methodologies and various approaches to maintenance and reliability improvements. An additional directory of maintenance and reliability acronyms is included.Maintenance and reliability involves many different people in many different roles. If we are expected to work efficiently, productively, and harmoniously on tasks and projects, there is need for a common language for communication. It is the goal of The Professional's Guide to Maintenance and Reliability Terminology to provide this basis.Robert Baldwin, Ramesh Gulati, and Jerry Kahn, have served the maintenance and reliability profession in many capacities for decades. Together, they have over 100 years of experience working in this field. All are Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (CMRPs).
Author : Andrew K.S. Jardine
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 146655486X
A completely revised and updated edition of a bestseller, Maintenance, Replacement, and Reliability: Theory and Applications, Second Edition supplies the tools needed for making data-driven physical asset management decisions. The well-received first edition quickly became a mainstay for professors, students, and professionals, with its clear prese
Author : Daniel T. Daley
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 28,60 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Provides much of the information needed to organize a reliability program at a company or in a plant that does not currently have one. Features a simple description of a number of reliability subjects and techniques in a mannerthat readers can easily understand. Describes the data that must be collected and the analysis that should be done at each phase during the lifecycle of a physical asset. Starts the user down the path of collecting data, mapping failures to causes and implementing the elements of a comprehensive reliability program in an order that best serves his needs. Devotes a chapter to pattern recognition and identification of the relationships between identified patterns and failures. Provides real-life examples. Contains examples of documents and spreadsheets needed to apply recommendations at the readers own plants and shops. The Little Black Book of Reliability Management provides the reader with a fresh but comprehensive perspective on the subject of reliability management. It challenges the reader to consider "what he has a right to expect" based on his current reliability programs. And it describes the programs and discipline needed if the reader desires the "right to expect" a higher level of reliability performance. This unique resource is perfect for individuals working in plants and in other organizations that are dependent on the reliability of complex physical assets. Introduction What do you have a right to expect? Patterns and RelationshipsLearning about a Defect Malfunction Reporting DiagnosticsTroubleshooting - Digression Concerning Facts Failure Analysis "Bucketing" Information Analysis Creating a Comprehensive Reliability Program General Comments on Reliability Methods Conclusion Appendix 1: Typical Malfunction Reporting and Defect Analysis System Appendix 2: References for Further Reading
Author : Wallace R. Blischke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0471458732
Introducing a groundbreaking companion book to a bestselling reliability text Reliability is one of the most important characteristics defining the quality of a product or system, both for the manufacturer and the purchaser. One achieves high reliability through careful monitoring of design, materials and other input, production, quality assurance efforts, ongoing maintenance, and a variety of related decisions and activities. All of these factors must be considered in determining the costs of production, purchase, and ownership of a product. Case Studies in Reliability and Maintenance serves as a valuable addition to the current literature on the subject of reliability by bridging the gap between theory and application. Conceived during the preparation of the editors' earlier work, Reliability: Modeling, Prediction, and Optimization (Wiley, 2000), this new volume features twenty-six actual case studies written by top experts in their fields, each illustrating exactly how reliability models are applied. A valuable companion book to Reliability: Modeling, Prediction, and Optimization, or any other textbook on the subject, the book features: * Case studies from fields such as aerospace, automotive, mining, electronics, power plants, dikes, computer software, weapons, photocopiers, industrial furnaces, granite building cladding, chemistry, and aircraft engines * A logical organization according to the life cycle of a product or system * A unified format of discussion enhanced by tools, techniques, and models for drawing one's own conclusions * Pertinent exercises for reinforcement of ideas Of equal value to both students of reliability theory as well as professionals in industry, Case Studies in Reliability and Maintenance should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand how reliability and maintenance issues can be addressed and resolved in the real world.
Author : Ramesh Gulati
Publisher : Industrial Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,6 MB
Release : 2012-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780831134341
Drawing upon the authors many years of shop floor and management experience in a variety of industries, this
Author : Toshio Nakagawa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 24,45 MB
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1846282217
Many serious accidents have happened in the world where systems have been large-scale and complex, and have caused heavy damage and a social sense of instability. Furthermore, advanced nations have almost ?nished public inf- structureandrushedintoamaintenanceperiod.Maintenancewillbemore- portant than production, manufacture, and construction, that is, more ma- tenance for environmental considerations and for the protection of natural resources. From now on, the importance of maintenance will increase more and more. In the past four decades, valuable contributions to maintenance policies in reliability theory have been made. This book is intended to s- marize the research results studied mainly by the author in the past three decades. The book deals primarily with standard to advanced problems of main- nance policies for system reliability models. System reliability can be mainly improved by repair and preventive maintenance, and replacement, and rel- bility properties can be investigated by using stochastic process techniques. The optimum maintenance policies for systems that minimize or maximize appropriate objective functions under suitable conditions are discussed both analytically and practically. The book is composed of nine chapters. Chapter 1 is devoted to an int- duction to reliability theory, and brie?y reviews stochastic processes needed for reliability and maintenance theory. Chapter 2 summarizes the results of repair maintenance, which is the most basic maintenance in reliability. The repair maintenance of systems such as the one-unit system and multiple-unit redundant systems is treated. Chapters 3 through 5 summarize the results of three typical maintenance policies of age, periodic, and block replacements.
