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The Most Complete, Current Guide to Every Aspect of Maintenance Engineering
Extensively updated to cover the latest technologies and methods,
Maintenance Engineering Handbook, Eighth Edition offers in-depth details on identifying and repairing faulty equipment. This definitive resource focuses on proven best practices for maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO), inventory management, root-cause analysis, and performance management. This thoroughly revised edition contains new chapters on:
- Reliability-based maintenance
- Preventive maintenance
- Sustaining maintenance
- Ultrasonics
- Operating dynamics
- Simplified failure modes and effects analysis
- Criticality analysis
- Process and value-stream mapping
Featuring contributions from noted experts in the field, this authoritative reference will help you to successfully reduce excessive downtime and high maintenance costs by detecting and mitigating repetitive failures.
Comprehensive coverage of:Organization and management of the maintenance function * Best practices for maintenance and predictive maintenance * Engineering and analysis tools * Maintenance of mechanical, electrical, and facilities equipment
List of contents
Section I: Organization and Management of the Maintenance FunctionIntro to the Theory and Practice of Maintenance; Operating Policies of Effective Maintenance; Cooperative Partnerships; Effective Maintenance Organizations; Lean Six Sigma Maintenance Organization; Reliability-based Maintenance; Total Productive Maintenance
Section II: Maintenance PracticesCorrective Maintenance; Preventive Maintenance; Predictive Maintenance; Maintenance Work Order Planning; Computer-Based Maintenance Management; Maintenance Stores/ Inventory Control
Section III: Engineering and Analysis ToolsEconomics of Maintenance; Work Measurement; Rating and Evaluating Maintenance Workers; Work Simplification in Maintenance; Estimating Repair & Maintenance Costs; Maintenance Key Performance Indicators & Executive Dashboards; Maintenance Engineer's ToolboxSection IV: Maintenance of Facilities and EquipmentMaintenance Of Low-slope Membrane Roofs; Concrete Industrial Floor Surfaces; Maintenance & Cleaning of Brick Masonry Structures; Maintenance Of Elevators and Special Lifts; Air Conditioning Equipment; Ventilation Fans & Exhaust Systems; Dust Collecting & Air-Cleaning Equipment; Piping
Section V: Maintenance of Mechanical EquipmentPlain Bearings; Rolling Bearings; Flexible Couplings for Power Transmission; Chains for Power Transmission; Cranes: Overhead & Gantry; Chain Hoists; Belt Drives; Mechanical Variable-Speed Drives; Gear Drives and Speed Reducers; Reciprocating Air Compressors; Valves; Pumps: Centrifugal & Positive Displacement
Section VI: Maintenance of Electrical EquipmentElectric Motors; Maintenance of Motor Control Components; Maintenance of Industrial Batteries; Illumination
Section VII: Instrumentation and Reliability ToolsSimplified Failure Modes and Effects Analysis; Criticality Analysis; Vibration: Analysis & Correction; Thermography; Tribilogy
Section VIII: LubricationScience & Technology; Organizing and Management of Lubrication
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Summary
A fully updated, digitized, and streamlined edition of the classic handbook that’s been educating plant and facility professionals in every aspect of maintenance engineering for more than half a century
