Effective Maintenance Management: Risk and Reliability Strategies for Optimizing Performance - Couverture rigide

Narayan, Vee

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0831134445 ISBN 13 : 9780831134440

Editeur : Industrial Press Inc.,U.S., 2011

Synopsis

Providing readers with a clear rationale for doing maintenance, this completely updated edition and 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 risks relating to safety or environmental incidents, adverse publicity, and loss of profitability. In addition to discussing risk reduction tools, it explains their applicability to specific situations so the readers can select the tool that fits their requirements. Aiding to bridge the gap between designers/maintainers and reliability engineers, this guide is sure to help businesses utilize their assets effectively, safely, and profitably.

Features

• 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 a high cost, high downtime maintenance activity, namely plant shutdowns.
• Provides an in-depth look at qualitative and quantitative risks.
• Includes a table of 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Vee Narayan is a leading authority on maintenance and reliability engineering. He is an experienced maintenance manager with a successful track record in a variety of industries including engineering, petroleum refining, pharmaceutical, liquefied natural gas production and oil & gas exploration and production. He has worked in several countries and cultures, including India, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

He led Shell's Centre of Excellence in Maintenance and Reliability and represented Shell in a Joint Industry Project (OREDAzzz). For eight years, he led the Maintenance Strategy group in Shell's Exploration & Production Company in Aberdeen.

Vee is a successful trainer over a period of 14 years in specialist areas such as Reliability Centred Maintenance, Root Cause Analysis and other maintenance management subjects. He is a visiting lecturer in the MSc course in Asset Management, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK, and an Associate Fellow of the MIRCE Akademy, Exeter, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Industrial Press Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0831134445
• ISBN 13: 9780831134440
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible