Maintenance Excellence

Part 1 Maintenance management fundamentals: maintenance management methodologies; measurement in maintenance management; data acquisition; materials management optimization. Part 2 Managing equipment reliability: assessing and managing risk;reliability by design - reliability centred maintenance; reliability by operator - total productive maintenance. Part 3 Optimizing maintenance decisions: reliability management and maintenance optimization - basic statistics and economics; maintenanceoptimization models; optimizing maintenance and replacement decisions; optimizing condition based maintenance. Part 4 Conclusion: achieving maintenance excellence; appendix 1 -mean time to failure; appendix 2 - median ranks; appendix 3 -censored data;appendix 4 - the 3-parameter Weibull function; appendix 5 - confidence intervals; appendix 6 - estimating (also called fitting) the distribution; appendix 7 - Kolmogorov-Smirnov goodness-of-fit test; appendix 8 - present value; appendix 9 -cost of capitalrequired for economic-life decisions; appendix 10 - optimal number of workshop machines to meet a fluctuating workload; appendix 11 - optimal size of a maintenance workforce to meet a fluctuating workload, taking into account subcontracting opportunities;appendix 12 - fuzzy logic; appendix 13 - neural nets; appendix 14 - optimal interval between preventive replacements of equipment subject to breakdown; appendix 15 -optimal preventive replacement age of equipment subject to breakdown; appendix 16 -optimal preventive replacement age of equipment subject to breakdown, taking into account the times required to effect failure and preventive replacements; appendix 17 - optimal replacement interval for capital equipment -minimization of total cost;appendix 18 - optimal replacement age of an asset taking into account tax considerations; appendix 19 -optimal replacement policy for capital equipment taking into account technological improvement - finite planning horizon; appendix 20 - optimalreplacement policy for capital equipmnent taking into account technological improvement - infinite planning horizon; appendix 21 - optimal inspection frequency - minimization of downtime.