Offers an introduction to the concept of 'excellence' in the several forms of maintenance used during the life of any system or facility. This book looks at various distinct forms of maintenance including: Routine Maintenance, Turnaround Maintenance, Program Maintenance, Project (Maintenance) Management, and Reliability in Maintenance.

Considering maintenance from a proactive, rather than reactive, perspective, Maintenance Excellence details the strategies, tools, and solutions for maximizing the productivity of physical assets—focusing on profitability potential. The editors address contemporary concerns, key terms, data requirements, critical methodologies, and essential mathematical needs. They present maintenance in a business context, review planning, measurement, feedback, and techniques related to cost, efficiency, and results, and summarize applications of tools and software from statistics and neural networks to cost-optimized models.

'Maintenance Excellence: Principles, Practices, and Future Trends' Embark on a journey through the intricate realm of maintenance management with 'Maintenance Excellence: Principles, Practices, and Future Trends.' This comprehensive guide unveils the crucial role maintenance plays in the operational continuity, efficiency, and longevity of assets across diverse industries. Overview: From the foundations of maintenance, tracing its historical evolution to modern applications, this book offers a holistic exploration. Dive into the multifaceted role of maintenance in ensuring operational continuity, enhancing equipment reliability, and minimizing downtime. Uncover the principles governing maintenance strategies, ranging from preventive and predictive maintenance to corrective and proactive approaches. Introduction: Maintenance is the backbone of operational success in any industry. From ensuring the smooth functioning of machinery to minimizing downtime, maintenance plays a pivotal role in enhancing efficiency and reliability. This comprehensive guide explores the principles and importance of maintenance, delving into its historical roots, diverse applications, and the evolving landscape of maintenance practices in the 21st century. Who Should Read: This book is an invaluable resource for maintenance professionals, students, and anyone keen on unraveling the intricacies of asset management. Whether you're a seasoned industry expert or a novice exploring the world of maintenance, this guide provides a comprehensive and accessible overview. Why Read: 'Maintenance Excellence' goes beyond the theoretical foundations, offering practical insights and real-world applications. It equips readers with the knowledge needed to navigate the challenges of diverse industries, embrace technological advancements, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. This book is a must-read for those seeking to elevate maintenance practices to new heights in an ever-evolving industrial landscape. Today's’ world is highly competitive than ever before. New technologies, machines, human beings are getting increasingly productive to sustain and survive in the world. In todays’ globalized world, India’s position as a manufacturing force is getting noticed. Hence the scale of efficiency has become global benchmark. Maintenance of engineering equipments and machines, is the field that has become a challenge due to size, cost, complexity and competition. Although progress has been made in maintaining equipments in reasonable manner. The professionals are developed, specializing in this area driven by market in a particular manufacturing or process industry or service suppliers etc. Thus, there is a definite need for effective asset management and maintenance practices that will positively influence critical success factors such as safety, product quality, speed of innovation, price, profitability, technical obsolesce, and reliable delivery. In competitive world there is a need to reduce manufacturing cost. There is humungous pressure on manufacturing function to adopt new technologies methods to improve productivity. One of the ways to gain competitive advantage is to pursue lean manufacturing. There are only a few companies address the significant synergies of lean and maintenance excellence. Many industries do not understand or not aware of one big opportunity area. The huge opportunity to reduce the manufacturing cost especially in a plant where there is a capacity crunch is not appreciated by all.” Zero breakdown “is not just a buzz word but reality today and this zero-breakdown concept, can bring about huge savings in manufacturing costs. In industrial world the awareness of this important function is rapidly increasing. However, the effectiveness and result orientation towards these activities varies a lot. Hence this has become a topic of research and efforts are made to understand the factors, actions and their impact and results.

Uptime describes the combination of activities that deliver fewer breakdowns, improved productive capacity, lower costs, and better environmental performance. The bestselling second edition of Uptime has been used as a textbook on maintenance management in several postsecondary institutions and by many companies as the model framework for their mai

Over the last decades maintenance management has evolved from a somewhat neglected function into a full-fledged business function in the industry as well as in the service sector.This book provides a structured approach to maintenance management. It covers maintenance strategy decisions, resource management, assessment system design, etc. Decision support models and tools in these areas are discussed from the theoretical point of view and illustrated by numerous examples and case studies.Due to its concept the book can be interesting for students as well as practitioners.This book is the successor of Maintenance Management (2000), which gave an introduction in the field.

What is "Lean?" Whether referring to manufacturing operations or maintenance, lean is about doing more with less: less effort, less space, fewer defects, less throughput time, lower volume requirements, less capital for a given level of output, etc. The need to provide the customer more value with less waste is a necessity for any firm wanting to stay in business, especially in today's increasingly global market place. And this is what lean thinking is all about. Lean Operations are difficult to sustain. More Lean Manufacturing Plant Transformations have been abandoned than have achieved true Lean Enterprise status. There are solid and recurring reasons for both of these conditions. The most significant of these reasons is that production support processes have not been pre-positioned or refined adequately to assist the manufacturing plant in making the lean transformation. And the most significant of the support functions is the maintenance operation, which determines production line equipment reliability. Moving the maintenance operation well into its own lean transformation is a must-do prerequisite for successful manufacturing plant - or any process plant - Lean Transformations. This Handbook provides detailed, step-by-step, fully explained processes for each phase of Lean Maintenance implementation providing examples, checklists and methodologies of a quantity, detail and practicality that no previous publication has even approached. It is required reading, and a required reference, for every plant and facility that is planning, or even thinking of adopting "Lean" as their mode of operation. * A continuous improvement strategy using new "lean" principles * Eliminate wasteful practices from your manufacturing or chemical processes, increasing the profitability of your plant * Save thousands of dollars a year on new equipment by keeping your existing equipment maintained using this revolutionary method