Front Cover -- Strategic Maintenance Planning -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author's biography -- Part 1: Introductory chapters -- Chapter 1. Maintenance and the industrial organization -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 A systems view of maintenance management -- Chapter 2. Plant acquisition policy and maintenance life-cycle costs -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Capital asset management -- 2.3 Summary -- Chapter 3. Formulating maintenance strategy: A business-centered approach -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Business-centered maintenance -- 3.3 An example of the application of BCM: background -- 3.4 Part A: Audit of the FPP maintenance department -- 3.5 Part B: An alternative maintenance strategy for continuous operation -- 3.6 Part C: A longer-term view of organizational change -- 3.7 The strategic thought process -- Part 2: Maintenance objectives and task selection -- Chapter 4. The structure of industrial plant -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Physical asset systems -- 4.3 Modeling industrial plant -- 4.4 The reason for maintenance -- 4.5 Capital replacement policy -- 4.6 Maintenance strategy -- Chapter 5. Maintenance objectives -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Maintenance resources and plant output factors -- 5.3 A generic statement of a plant maintenance objective -- 5.4 A procedure for formulating maintenance objectives -- 5.5 Maintenance objectives and maintenance performance indices -- 5.6 Maintenance objectives in practice -- Chapter 6. Preventive maintenance decision-making Part 1: Principles, concepts and techniques -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Plant items and their failure characteristics -- 6.3 The preventive maintenance decision problem -- 6.4 The maintenance actions -- 6.5 The timing of the maintenance action: maintenance policy -- Chapter 7. Preventive maintenance decision-making Part 2: Maintenance task selection.

7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Examples of maintenance task selection -- 7.3 Assembling the maintenance life plan for a unit -- 7.4 Standby units and the life plan -- Chapter 8. Maintenance task selection using reliability-centered maintenance -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The RCM procedure -- 8.3 Application of RCM to a chemical plant -- Part 3: The top-down bottom-up approach -- Chapter 9. Determining the life plan and schedule: The top-down bottom-up approach -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The TDBUA -- 9.3 Comments on the TDBUA -- 9.4 Using the TDBUA -- Part 4: Controlling plant reliability -- Chapter 10. Controlling plant reliabilitty -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Reactive control of plant reliability -- 10.3 Proactive control of plant reliability -- 10.4 Incorporating reliability control systems into the organization -- Part 5: Exercises -- Chapter 11. Exercises on maintenance strategy -- Exercise 11.1 An alumina refinery -- Exercise 11.2 A gold mine milling process -- Part 6: Case studies -- Chapter 12. Case studies of maintenance strategy -- Case study 1. An audit of the maintenance strategy for an agricultural chemical plant -- 1 Introduction -- 2 An overview of Fertec -- 3 Objectives -- 4 Maintenance strategy -- Case study 2. Maintenance strategy review of an aluminum smelter -- 1 Introduction -- 2 An overview of Smeltall -- 3 Carbon plant process flow: overall operation -- 4 Green-mix plant-operating characteristics and maintenance strategy -- 5 Ring furnace maintenance characteristics and strategy -- 6 Summary -- Case study 3. A review of the maintenance strategy in petroleum refinery -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Plant-operating characteristics -- 3 Maintenance strategy -- 4 Observations -- Case study 4. Maintenance strategy in the coal mining industry -- 1 Introduction -- 2 An overview of COALCOM -- Case study 5. Maintaining an open-cut coal mine.

1 Introduction -- 2 Operating characteristics of an open-cut mine -- 3 Modeling fleet operation: status diagrams -- 4 Summary -- Case study 6. Maintenance strategy for a passenger transport fleet -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fleet-operating characteristics -- 3 Outline of the existing maintenance strategy -- 4 Comments -- Case studies 7-10. Case studies in the electrical power utilities -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Operating characteristics of an electricity supply system -- Case study 7. A gas-fired power station -- 1 The station and its operating characteristics -- 2 The maintenance strategy in use when the station provided base load -- 3 Maintenance strategy review for two-shift operation -- Case study 8. An oil-fired power station -- 1 The station and its operating characteristics -- 2 Production and maintenance objectives -- 3 Maintenance strategy before privatization -- 4 Maintenance strategy after privatization -- Case study 9. A transmission system -- 1 Equipment-operating characteristics -- 2 Maintenance strategy mapping -- Case study 10. A distribution system -- Appendix 1: Maintenance terminology -- Appendix 2: In-situ repair techniques -- Appendix 3: Introductory failure statistics -- Index.

Maintenance insight enables better strategic judgments. This book equips you to meet the maintenance challenge with proven tools and the hard-won experience of others.

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