Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices (Hardcover)

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To manufacture quality products or provide services at competitive prices is essential to survive in today s business climate. We are forced to look for better ways of doing things on continual basis. To meet customer s needs on their schedule requires (high) availability and reliability of equipment and systems when they are needed. 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. These are called best practices. But it is not as simple as putting something into effect. 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.

Maintenance & Reliability Best Practices 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 practical 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 designers who design the equipment; operators who operate; and maintainers who maintain, as well as warehouse and store personnel who procure and supply materials; engineers who improve the reliability; and human resource professionals who provide and arrange for a work force. Students specializing in the M&R field will also benefit.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: Industrial Press, Inc.; 1st edition (April 15, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0831133112
• ISBN-13: 978-0831133115
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #149,040 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Field Managers Review, April 27, 2009

By	Bruce E. Dobson (Louisville, Ky) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

M&R Best Practices by Gulati ( Amazon.com /Industrial Press)


Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices by Ramesh Gulati is the best technical book I have read in recent years. It is filled with practical information.

Written in easy to understand format and with very real scenario discussion. It is a great book to comprehend all practices in maintenance and reliability areas.

You need to read only this book if you want to take a professional certification, such as CMRP test or update your maintenance and reliability best practices.

Bruce Dobson
Site Manager,
Jacobs Industrial Services
Louisville, KY