Includes bibliographical references.

The production and distribution process -- Process Efficiency -- Criteria for assessing efficiency -- Improving efficiency -- Cost measurement and pitfalls -- Work and Its Value -- Mechanization and productivity -- Value added and its measurement -- Manufacturing and Service Industries -- Conversion processes -- Factor influencing the efficiency of industries -- Factors affecting demand -- The Systems Approach -- Impact of Efficiency on Resources -- Efficiency of utilization -- Efficiency and non-renewable resources -- Maintenance--The Questions to Address -- Process functions -- The Functional Approach -- Functional Block Diagrams (FBD) -- Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) -- Effective Planning -- Prevention of Failures or Mitigation of Consequences? -- Reliability engineering for the maintenance practitioner -- Failure Histograms -- Probability Density Function -- Mortality -- Hazard Rates and Failure Patterns -- The Trouble with Averages -- The Special Case of the Constant Hazard Rate -- Availability -- Mean Availability -- The Weibull Distribution -- Deterministic and Probabilistic Distributions -- Age-Exploration -- Failure, its nature and characteristics -- Failure - a systems approach -- Critical and degraded failures -- Evident failures -- Hidden failures -- Incipient failures -- The Operating Context -- The Feedback Control Model -- Life Without Failure -- Capability and Expectation -- Incipiency -- Limits to the Application of Condition Monitoring -- Age Related Failure Distribution -- System Level Failures.

"This book describes the crucial role of maintenance in minimizing the risk of safety or environmental incidents, adverse publicity, and loss of profitability. And it explains the applicability of risk-reduction tools to specific situations, thereby enabling you to select the tool that best fits your requirements."--

Purchased Purchased July 26, 2018. 292301 $13,630 YBYW

Purchased Purchased July 26, 2018. 292302 $13,630 YBYW