Preventive Maintenance - Softcover

AlArfaj, Khalid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659309176 ISBN 13: 9783659309175

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

This preventive maintenance (PM) book is an essential guide for all maintenance professionals. This book explains how to set-up and improve a preventive maintenance policy in any industry. Topics covered in 6 chapters include: maintenance fundamentals, plannig systems, performance measurement, cost models, and modeling of the failure process. The performance measurement and PM techniques are presented in the book together with the Preventive Maintenance Cost and case studies of how to inspect and prevent failures for a number of standard equipments. The book is organized as follows: Chapter 1 serves as a literature review for the preventive maintenance. Chapter 2 defines the problem and provides information about the equipment of interest, including its reliability and maintainability characteristics and economic factors related to its maintenance actions. Chapter 3 deals with data collection and analysis. Chapter 4 deals with modeling the failure process. The cost models and selection of PM policies are given in chapter 5, along with some analysis and comments. Finally, chapter 6 provides some concluding remarks.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Khalid A. AlArfaj has eighteen years of professional ICT experience. He has several academic publications. He obtained his B. Sc. SE degree from KFUPM-Dhahran and his M. Sc. SE from KSU-Riyadh and his PhD degree in informatics from University of Bradford-UK. Also, he has a master’s certificates in PM from George Washington University.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659309176
• ISBN 13: 9783659309175
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 76