Effective Maintenance Management. V. Narayan

to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Abbreviations and Acronyms

1.The Production and Distribution Process

1.1Process Efficiency

1.2Work and Its Value

1.3Manufacturing and Service Industries

1.4The Systems Approach

1.5Impact of Efficiency on Resources

1.6Maintenance—The Questions to Address

1.7Chapter Summary

2.Process

2.1The Functional Approach

2.2Functional Block Diagrams (FBD)

2.3Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

2.4Effective Planning

2.5Prevention of Failures or Mitigation of Consequences?

2.6Chapter Summary

3.Reliability Engineering for the Maintenance Practitioner

3.1Failure Histograms

3.2Probability Density Function

3.3Mortality

3.4Hazard Rates and Failure Patterns

3.5The Trouble with Averages

3.6The Special Case of the Constant Hazard Rate

3.7Availability

3.8Mean Availability

       3.9The Weibull Distribution

3.10Deterministic and Probabilistic Distributions

3.11Age-Exploration

3.12Chapte Summary

Appendix 3-1

Appendix 3-2

4.Failure, Its Nature and Characteristics

4.1Failure

4.2The Operating Context

4.3The Feedback Control Model

4.4Life Without Failure

4.5Capability and Expectation

4.6Incipiency

4.7Limits to the Application of Condition Monitoring

4.8Age Related Failure Distribution

4.9System Level Failures

4.10Human Failures

4.11Chapter Summary

Appendix 4-1

5.Life Cycle Aspects of Risks in Process Plants

       5.1Design Quality

       5.2Risks During Construction

       5.3The Pre-Commissioning and Commissioning Phases

       5.4Planning of Maintenance Work

       5.5The Operational Phase

       5.6Modifications to Plant and Change Control

       5.7Maintenance Costs

       5.8End of Life Activities

       5.9Chapter Summary

       6.Process Plant Shutdowns

       6.1Factors Affecting Operating Run Lengths

       6.2Risks Related to Planned Shutdowns

       6.3Planning

       6.4Safety and Environmental Hazards