Handbook of Maintenance Management and Engineering

Abstract

Preface To be able to compete successfully both at national and international levels, production systems and equipment must perform at levels not even thinkable adecade ago. Requirements for increased product quality, reduced throughput timeand enhanced operating effectiveness within a rapidly changing customer demandenvironment continue to demand a high maintenance performance.In some cases, maintenance is required to increase operational effectivenessand revenues and customer satisfaction while reducing capital, operating andsupport costs. This may be the largest challenge facing production enterprises thesedays. For this, maintenance strategy is required to be aligned with the productionlogistics and also to keep updated with the current best practices.Maintenance has become a multidisciplinary activity and one may come acrosssituations in which maintenance is the responsibility of people whose training isnot engineering. This handbook aims to assist at different levels of understandingwhether the manager is an engineer, a production manager, an experiencedmaintenance practitioner or a beginner. Topics selected to be included in thishandbook cover a wide range of issues in the area of maintenance management andengineering to cater for all those interested in maintenance whether practitioners orresearchers.This handbook is divided into 6 parts and contains 26 chapters covering a widerange of topics related to maintenance management and engineering.Part I deals with maintenance organization and performance measurement andcontains two chapters. Chapter 1 by Haroun and Duffuaa describes themaintenance organization objectives, the responsibilities of maintenance, and thedeterminants of a sound maintenance organization. In Chapter 2, Parida and Kumaraddress the issues of maintenance productivity and performance measurement.Topics covered include important performance measures and maintenance performance indicators (MPI), measurement of maintenance productivity performance and various factors and issues like MPI and MPM systems, MPIstandard and MPIs use in different industries