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Effective Maintenance Management : risk and reliability strategies for optimizing performance /

"This book describes the crucial role of maintenance in minimizing the risk of safety or environmental incidents, adverse publicity, and loss of profitability. And it explains the applicability of risk-reduction tools to specific situations, thereby enabling you to select the tool that best fit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Narayan, V.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Industrial Press Inc., 2012.
Edición:2nd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The production and distribution process
  • Process Efficiency
  • Criteria for assessing efficiency
  • Improving efficiency
  • Cost measurement and pitfalls
  • Work and Its Value
  • Mechanization and productivity
  • Value added and its measurement
  • Manufacturing and Service Industries
  • Conversion processes
  • Factor influencing the efficiency of industries
  • Factors affecting demand
  • The Systems Approach
  • Impact of Efficiency on Resources
  • Efficiency of utilization
  • Efficiency and non-renewable resources
  • Maintenance
  • The Questions to Address
  • Process functions
  • The Functional Approach
  • Functional Block Diagrams (FBD)
  • Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA)
  • Effective Planning
  • Prevention of Failures or Mitigation of Consequences?
  • Reliability engineering for the maintenance practitioner
  • Failure Histograms
  • Probability Density Function
  • Mortality
  • Hazard Rates and Failure Patterns
  • The Trouble with Averages
  • The Special Case of the Constant Hazard Rate
  • Availability
  • Mean Availability
  • The Weibull Distribution
  • Deterministic and Probabilistic Distributions
  • Age-Exploration
  • Failure, its nature and characteristics
  • Failure
  • a systems approach
  • Critical and degraded failures
  • Evident failures
  • Hidden failures
  • Incipient failures
  • The Operating Context
  • The Feedback Control Model
  • Life Without Failure
  • Capability and Expectation
  • Incipiency
  • Limits to the Application of Condition Monitoring
  • Age Related Failure Distribution
  • System Level Failures.