Effective Maintenance Management: Risk and Reliability Strategies for Optimizing Performance (Hardcover)

~ Vee Narayan (Author) "This book deals with the management of risks through the life cycle of a process plant..." (more)
Key Phrases: process demand rate, damage limitation model, fixed format reporting, Piper Alpha, Time Figure, The Economist (more...)

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"A book with true content, without having to own numerous other books to provide information one might need. Great book..." -- Ricky Smith, Executive Director, Maintenance Solutions

Product Description

Providing a clear explanation of the value and benefits of maintenance, this unique guide is written in a language and style that practicing engineers and managers can understand and apply easily. Effective Maintenance Management examines the role of maintenance in minimizing the risk of safety or environmental incidents, adverse publicity, and loss of profitability. In addition to discussing risk reduction tools, it explains their applicability to specific situations, thereby enabling you to select the tool that best fits your requirements. Intended to bridge the gap between designers/maintainers and reliability engineers, this guide is sure to help businesses utilize their assets more effectively, safely, and profitably.

Distinctive Features You’ll Find
- Addresses the philosophical question of why we need to do maintenance and what is the value added by doing it.
- Shows readers how to determine what tasks are required and when they need to be done to achieve optimum performance.
- Provides a risk reduction model which links maintenance to these risks.
- Enables readers to make the link between maintenance on one hand and safety, profitability, and asset life on the other.
- Examines risks faced during the life cycle of a process plant.
- Discusses how to manage risks faced during a high cost, high downtime maintenance activity, namely plant shutdowns.
- Provides an in-depth look at qualitative and quantitative risks.
- Includes a table of fixed format codes that can be used directly or adapted for use in most maintenance management systems.
- Keeps mathematics to a minimum.
- Includes chapter previews and summaries, a list of acronyms, and a glossary of terms.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 246 pages
• Publisher: Industrial Press, Inc.; 1 edition (March 31, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0831131780
• ISBN-13: 978-0831131784
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #289,839 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very practical perspective on Maintenance Mangement, December 5, 2006

By	Mr. Steve Turner "Reliability Consultant" (Melbourne Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

On Page 230 of this book, Vee makes a series of profound statements which summarise the book and its approach.
He writes:
"There are many learned papers that address the application of reliability engineering theory to maintenance strategy discussions. Many of them use advanced mathematics to fine tune maintenance strategies. The authors have limited access to field data, and their recommendations are often abstract and difficult to apply. So these remain learned papers, which practitioners do not understand or cannot apply to real life situations".
He goes on to say later that "This chasm between the designers and maintainers on the one hand and the reliability engineers on the other is what we have to bridge"
I can not agree more with these statements.
While this book ventures into statistics and probability theory in some areas, it does so in a practical way and provides excellent guidance on such matters. Overall it is a practical book providing practical advice for people involved in maintenance and reliability management. It goes a long way to bridging the chasm that exists.
This is a very good text that has a place in any maintainer's library.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive, April 21, 2005

By	Andy Hunt (UK) - See all my reviews

That the author has managed to cram so much into 200 odd pages is impressive and I will be using it as a reference for some time. What is very good about the book is the ease of read and the fact that there are a number of real life examples that make many of your points more relevant to the reader. There were a few instances where my own experiences where reflected in the text such as Reshnikovs conundrum and the RCA chapter. On the whole I think it is an impressive book that deals well with a much misunderstood subject.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Practical and Balanced Perspective, July 15, 2004

By	Robert J. Latino (Hopewell, VA United States) - See all my reviews

I come from a Reliability background which originated with a corporate R&D group of a Fortune 500 firm. Per our R&D efforts, we viewed Reliability Engineering as encompassing Equipment, Process and Human Reliability issues.

Vee has concisely incorporated these three facets of Reliability into the Maintenance realm as well, allowing the reader to understand the big picture of developing an all-encompassing Maintenance and Reliability strategy.

This "effective", all-encompassing strategy will consider the short-term and long-term objectives of the organization and identify the proper balance of reactive and proactive work to be optimally done.

This book would also be an excellent desk reference for those who seek a foundation for terminology, as such standardized and accepted definitions are rare in our industry. Thanks Vee for sharing your expertise with others who can learn from your vast experience.