FOREWORD :

Some engineering fields change dramatically from year to year, with radical breakthroughs in technology happening often. These fields may have hundreds or more papers and texts published each year on the latest best practices. Maintenance engineering is a field which, for the most part, hasn’t fundamentally changed much over the years. And there aren’t many sources for the latest information or best practices. But in recent years, maintenance engineering has, more and more, put an emphasis on true reliability.

A business which is asset-intensive, such as manufacturing, relies on a reliability-centered field of engineering to be successful. In my opinion, reliability engineering itself has become a technology used for the purpose of improving manufacturing capacity, without capital investment. The Maintenance Engineering Handbook has long been regarded as the premier source for expertise on maintenance theory and practices for any industry. This text has been considered invaluable and now, this latest edition defines those practices that are critical to developing an effective reliability engineering function within your business.

PREFACE :

This “Maintenance Engineering Handbook” is written, almost exclusively, by those people who have had to face the acute never-ending problems of equipment failures, repairs, and upkeep, day by day, hour by hour, midnight shift by midnight shift. They understand better than most the extraordinary demands that every maintenance manager, planner, and craftsperson must face and overcome to meet the everchanging maintenance requirements of today’s plant. It is the function of “Maintenance Engineering Handbook” to pass along invention, ingenuity, and a large dose of pure basic science to you, the user. This then is your key, your guide, and your chief support in the tempestuous battle of Maintenance in the days and years ahead.

 Lindley R. Higgins, as editor-in-chief of the first five editions of this handbook, established a standard for excellence that we have attempted to maintain in this seventh edition. Through the excellent help of maintenance professionals, we have updated those sections that were in the earlier editions and have added new topics that we believe will help you survive in the battle against excessive downtime, high maintenance costs, and the myriad other problems that you as a maintenance professional must face each day.

  • Size :  23.5 MB.
  • Format : PDF.
  • Language : English.
  • Pages : 1244.


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