"Updated, modernized, digitized, and streamlined edition of this classic handbook which has been educating plant and facility professionals in every aspect of maintenance engineering for more than half a century"--
Experienced maintenance engineers share their practical insights into failures, repairs, and upkeep of manufacturing and processing equipment. They cover the organization and management of the maintenance function, maintenance best practices, predictive maintenance best practices, engineering and analysis tools, maintaining mechanical equipment, and maintaining electrical equipment. Among specific topics are reliability-based maintenance, sustaining maintenance, monitoring and analyzing vibration, simplified failure modes and effects analysis, chains for power transmission, and maintaining motor control components. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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.
Comprehensive coverage of:
Organization and management of the maintenance function * Best practices for maintenance and predictive maintenance * Engineering and analysis tools * Maintenance of mechanical, electrical, and facilities equipment