Maintenance Engineering Handbook, 8th Edition

The Most Complete, Current Guide to Every Aspect of Maintenance Engineering Extensively updated to cover the latest technologies and methods, Maintenance Engineering Handbook, Eighth Edition offers in-depth details on identifying and repairing faulty equipment. This definitive resource focuses on proven best practices for maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO), inventory management, root-cause analysis, and performance management. This thoroughly revised edition contains new chapters on:

• Reliability-based maintenance
• Preventive maintenance
• Sustaining maintenance
• Ultrasonics
• Operating dynamics
• Simplified failure modes and effects analysis
• Criticality analysis
• Process and value-stream mapping

Featuring contributions from noted experts in the field, this authoritative reference will help you to successfully reduce excessive downtime and high maintenance costs by detecting and mitigating repetitive failures

Contributors
Foreword
Preface

Section 1 : Organization and Management of the Maintenance Function
Chapter 1.1 : Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Maintenance
Chapter 1.2 : Maintenance Versus Reliability Engineering
Chapter 1.3 : Operating Policies of Effective Maintenance
Chapter 1.4 : Reliability-Based Maintenance
Chapter 1.5 : Total Productive Maintenance
Chapter 1.6 : Economics of Reliability

Section 2 : Maintenance Best Practices
Chapter 2.1 : Key Performance Indicators
Chapter 2.2 : Fundamental Requirements of Preventive Maintenance
Chapter 2.3 : Sustaining Maintenance
Chapter 2.4 : Computerized Planning and Scheduling
Chpater 2.5 : Maintenance Repair and Operations - Storeroom Excellence
Chapter 2.6 : The Organization and Management of Lubrication

Section 3 : Predictive Maintenance Best Practices
Chapter 3.1 : Predictive Maintenance
Chapter 3.2 : Vibration Monitoring and Analysis
Chapter 3.3 : An Introduction to Thermography
Chapter 3.4 : Tribology
Chapter 3.5 : Ultrasonics
Chapter 3.6 : Operating Dynamics Analysis

Section 4 : Engineering and Analysis Tools
Chapter 4.1 : Maintenance Engineer's Toolbox
Chapter 4.2 : Simplified Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
Chapter 4.3 : Criticality Analysis
Chapter 4.4 : Root Cause Analysis
Chapter 4.5 : Process and Value-Stream Mapping

Section 5 : Maintenance of Mechanical Equipment
Chapter 5.1 : Plan Bearings
Chapter 5.2 : Rolling-Element Bearings
Chapter 5.3 : Belt Drives
Chapter 5.4 : Chains for Power Transmission
Chapter 5.5 : Flexible Couplings for Power Transmission
Chapter 5.6 : Gear Drives and Speed Reducers
Chapter 5.7 : Mechanical Variable-Speed Drives
Chapter 5.8 : Pumps : Centrifugal and Positive Displacement

Section 6 : Maintenance of Electrical Equipment
Chapter 6.1 : Electric Motors
Chapter 6.2 : Maintenance of Motor Control Components
Chapter 6.3 : Maintenance of Industrial Batteries (Lead-Acid, Nickel-Cadmium, Nickel-Iron)

Appendix : SI Units and Conversion Factors
Index

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