Effective Maintenance Management: Risk and Reliability Strategies for Optimizing Performance

Addresses the philosophical question of why we need to do maintenance and what is the value added by doing it.Shows readers how to determine what tasks are required and when they need to be done to achieve optimum performance.Provides a risk reduction model which links maintenance to these risks.Enables readers to make the link between maintenance on one hand and safety, profitability, and asset life on the other.Examines risks faced during the life cycle of a process plant.Discusses how to manage risks faced during a high cost, high downtime maintenance activity, namely plant shutdowns.Provides an in-depth look at qualitative and quantitative risks.Includes a table of fixed format codes that can be used directly or adapted for use in most maintenance management systems.Keeps mathematics to a minimum.Includes chapter previews and summaries, a list of acronyms, and a glossary of terms.