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| Maintenance
Strategy |
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Anthony Kelly, Ph.D.,
320pp., 1999, ISBN: 0750644486 |
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Devising
optimal strategy for maintaining industrial plant can be a
difficult task of daunting complexity. This book aims to
provide the plant engineer with a comprehensive and systematic
approach, a framework of guidelines, for tackling this
problem, i.e. for deciding maintenance objectives, formulating
equipment life plans and plant maintenance schedules,
designing the maintenance organization and setting up
appropriate systems of documentation and control.
The author, Anthony Kelly, an experienced international
consultant and lecturer on this subject, calls his approach
BUSINESS-CENTERED MAINTENANCE (BCM) because it springs from,
and is driven by, the identification of business objectives,
which are then translated into maintenance objectives and
which underpin the maintenance strategy formulation. For the
first time maintenance management is analyzed from the
perspective of the whole company and thus makes sense not only
technologically but also in economic and business terms. |
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Chapter 1 takes the systems view of a
company and explains that the maintenance sub-system influences -
and is influenced by - many other sub-systems. It emphasizes that
the capital asset management function has a major effect on the
maintenance department via its concern for asset reliability and
maintainability and also that, as regards organization design, the
maintenance and production departments are inseparable. Chapter 2
looks at the influence of capital asset acquisition policy on
maintenance life cycle costs. Via an industrial case study, Chapter
3 then develops the overall methodology of BCM. Chapter 4 shows how
an industrial plant can be modeled as a hierarchy of inter-related
parts and also as a process flow. Chapters 5 and 6 then explain how
statistical techniques can be used, firstly to model patterns of
component failure and quantify component reliability, and secondly
to model and assess the reliability of plant systems. As well as
showing how business needs determine the development of maintenance
objectives. Chapter 7 also outlines a hierarchy of such objectives.
chapter 8 then deals with what is probably the key issue in this
area, via preventive maintenance decision making, discussing the
concepts and principles involved and their application to the
formulation of a life-plan for a unit of plant. Chapter 9 outlines
the unique TDBU approach to formulating a preventive maintenance
schedule for a plant and Chapter 10 then describes a
reliability-based model for controlling the application of
maintenance effort. To further illuminate the ideas which have been
discussed up to that point, and to reinforce understanding of them,
Chapters 11 and 12 present various contrasting industrial case
studies and exercises. Finally, Chapters 13, 14 and 15 firstly
review the merits and limitations of the two other basic
philosophies of maintenance strategy formulation, via Reliability
Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
and then compare and contrast them with BCM. |
| About
the Author: Anthony Kelly
PhD |
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Visiting Professor at Central
Queensland University, Australia, University of Stellenbosch,
South Africa and Hogskolen I Stavanger, Norway
Dr. Anthony Kelly is a maintenance
consultant of many years' experience. He has carried out more than
sixty major maintenance consultancy projects worldwide and over
the last fifteen years he has also held industrial or visiting
professorships at Central Queensland University (Australia),
University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) and Hogskolen I
Stavanger (Norway).
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