Effective Maintenance Management - An Overview
Thoroughly updated, the second edition of Effective Maintenance Management provides clear rationale and comprehensive procedures for maintenance in industry. Author Vee Narayan has given us a unique guide, written in clear prose that practicing maintenance engineers, supervisors and managers can easily absorb, digest and apply.
Effective Maintenance Management delivers 12 chapters in 300 pages in this hardcover volume. Narayan examines the role of maintenance as a methodology for minimizing risk related to safety and environmental concerns in industry. Also examined is adverse publicity from maintenance-preventable accidents, loss of profitability and maintenance-centric tools for risk reduction. The author employs specific situational descriptions to help readers select those tools as they fit the need.
In industry, gaps can appear between industrial engineering for production, reliability and plant maintenance. Effective Maintenance Management works to bridge those gaps via effective management of the maintenance function. The result enables production-oriented businesses to maximize assets while achieving safety and profitability.
Effective Maintenance Management Features
- Provides a risk reduction model which links maintenance to specific risks
- Enables readers to establish the critical 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 expensive plant shutdowns, a high cost, high downtime maintenance activity
- Provides an in-depth look at qualitative and quantitative risks
- Includes a table of 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.
V. Narayan, a.k.a. Vee, is an experienced maintenance manager with a successful track record in a variety of industries including engineering, petroleum refining, pharmaceutical, liquefied natural gas production and oil & gas exploration and production. He has worked in several countries and cultures, including India, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
He led Shell’s Centre of Excellence in Maintenance and Reliability and represented Shell in a Joint Industry Project (OREDAzzz). For eight years, he led the Maintenance Strategy group in Shell’s Exploration & Production Company in Aberdeen.
Vee is a successful trainer over a period of 14 years in specialist areas such as Reliability Centred Maintenance, Root Cause Analysis and other maintenance management subjects. He is a visiting lecturer in the MSc course in Asset Management, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK, and an Associate Fellow of the MIRCE Akademy, Exeter, UK. In addition to authoring Effective Maintenance Management – Risk and Reliability Strategies for Optimizing Performance, his second second book for Industrial press is 100 Years of Maintenance and Reliability: Practical Lessons from Three Lifetimes at Process Plants.
- The Production and Distribution Process
- Process Functions
- Reliability Engineering for the Maintenance Practitioner
- Failure, its Nature and Characteristics
- Life Cycle Aspects of Risks in Process Plants
- Process Plant Shutdowns
- Facets of Risk
- The Escalation of Events
- Maintenance
- Risk Reduction
- Information for Decision Making
- Improving System Effectiveness