Maintainability, Availability, & Operational Readiness Engineering Handbook, Volume 1

Description

Preventive maintenance engineering can significantly contribute to productivity and cost-reduction in any industry dependent upon machinery and equipment. This handbook provides a comprehensive guide to advanced strategies and procedures for this vital function. Once equipment has been purchased, anywhere from four to forty times its purchase price may be spent on maintenance and repairs. The ability to monitor, quantify, and predict maintenance needs ensures the highest equipment availability at the lowest cost. Aimed at professional engineers and managers as well as students, the Maintainability, Availability, and Operational Readiness Engineering Handbook, Volume 1 includes problems, learning suggestions, and complete references. Practical examples, computer programs, and case studies provide a thorough treatment. Content: Front Matter • Preface • Table of Contents 1. Maintainability, Availability and Operational Readiness Engineering 2. System Effectiveness and Reliability Engineering Concepts 3. Maintenance 4. Maintainability Design Criteria 5. Downtime Distributions and Maintainability Engineering Functions 6. Maintainability and its Quantification 7. Steady State Mean Times to Actively Restore, Repair and/or Replace Components in an Equipment 8. Maintainability Engineering Specifications and Their Applications 9. Preventive Maintenance and its Quantified Advantages 10. Periodic Replacement Policies 11. Modified Block Replacement Policies 12. Additional Maintenance Policies 13. Overhaul Policies 14. Spares Provisioning 15. Distributional Test and Repair Times in a Test and Repair Facility 16. The Weibull Process of Repairable Units 17. Reliability of Components with a Policy of Replacing Those That Fail by a Prescribed Operating Time 18. Reliability of Maintained Equipment When Keeping Track of the Ages of all Components with Exponential and Weibullian PDF'S Index • About the Author