Preventive Maintenance (2nd Edition) [Paperback]

Joseph D. Patton Jr. (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1556175337 | ISBN-13: 978-1556175336 | Publication Date: January 1995 | Edition: 2 Sub

This edition shows how the investment in a preventive maintenance program repays a company in longer equipment life, smoother operation, planning, and scheduling.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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From the Inside Flap

This new enlarged and updated edition of a best-selling classic shows how the investment in a preventive maintenance program repays a company in longer equipment life, smoother operation, planning, and scheduling. It includes enhanced techniques and insights along with new chapters dealing with computerized PM systems. Preventive maintenance means all actions intended to keep durable equipment in good operating equipment and avoid failures. New technology has improved equipment quality, reliability and dependability by fault-tolerance, redundant components, self-adjustments, and replacement of hydraulic and mechanical components by more reliable electronic and optical operations. However, many components can still wear out, corrode, become punctured, vibrate excessively, become overheated by friction or dirt, or even be damaged by humans. Fortunately, modern sensors and computers for condition monitoring and on-condition need-detection enable many equipments to "call home" to report they need PM before they fail. The preventive maintenance advantage is that you will pay less now to do planned work when production is not pushing versus very expensive emergency repairs that may be required under disruptive conditions and cause production to halt and lose revenue. Good PM saves money over a product's life cycle. The book addresses major types of maintenance; advantages and disadvantages of PM; designing a PM program; economics of PM; nondestructive testing; scheduling; metrics; data issues; and much more. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Joe Patton is regarded as the premier practicioner and writer on equipment maintenance. logistics and support systems. Other books include: Maintainability & Maintenance Management, Service Parts Handbook, and After the Sale: How to Manage Service for Customer Satisfaction and Profit. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 202 pages
• Publisher: Instrumentation Systems &; 2 Sub edition (January 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556175337
• ISBN-13: 978-1556175336
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,780,943 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good treatment of preventive maintenance management concepts, July 29, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Preventive Maintenance (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

This makes a good text for introducing broad maintenance management concepts to students who have never been exposed to formal instruction in the topic. Understandable, without being trivial

5.0 out of 5 stars A Good Reference to Preventive Maintenance, July 10, 2006

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David De Sousa "The Automation and Control Guy" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Preventive Maintenance, 3rd Edition (Paperback)

This book shows how the investment in a preventive maintenance program repays a company in longer equipment life, smoother operation, planning, and scheduling.

It includes enhanced techniques and insights along with new chapters dealing with computerized PM systems. Preventive maintenance means all actions intended to keep durable equipment in good operating equipment and avoid failures. New technology has improved equipment quality, reliability and dependability by fault-tolerance, redundant components, self-adjustments, and replacement of hydraulic and mechanical components by more reliable electronic and optical operations. However, many components can still wear out, corrode, become punctured, vibrate excessively, become overheated by friction or dirt, or even be damaged by humans. Fortunately, modern sensors and computers for condition monitoring and on-condition need-detection enable many equipments to "call home" to report they need PM before they fail. The preventive maintenance advantage is that you will pay less now to do planned work when production is not pushing versus very expensive emergency repairs that may be required under disruptive conditions and cause production to halt and lose revenue. Good PM saves money over a product's life cycle.

The book addresses major types of maintenance; advantages and disadvantages of PM; designing a PM program; economics of PM; nondestructive testing; scheduling; metrics; data issues; and much more. The book is organized in the folowing way:
- Major Types of Maintenance.
- Advantages and Disadvantages.
- Designing a PM Program.
- Economics of PM.
- Nondestructive Inspection.
- On-Condition Maintenance.
- Condition Monitoring Prediction.
- Scheduled Preventive Maintenance.
- Lubrication.
- Calibration.
- Data and Information.
- Planning and Estimating.
- Shutdown Planning.
- Scheduling.
- Computerized PM Systems.
- PM Metrics.
- Motivation.
- Implementing a New PM Program.
- Special Concerns.