Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Considering maintenance from a proactive, rather than reactive, perspective, Maintenance Excellence details the strategies, tools, and solutions for maximizing the productivity of physical assets--focusing on profitability potential. The editors address contemporary concerns, key terms, data requirements, critical methodologies, and essential mathematical needs. They present maintenance in a business context, review planning, measurement, feedback, and techniques related to cost, efficiency, and results, and summarize applications of tools and software from statistics and neural networks to cost-optimized models.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface (p. iii)
• Acknowledgments (p. vii)
• Contributors (p. xv)
• 1. Introduction (p. 1)
• Maintenance Management Fundamentals
• 2. Maintenance Management Methodologies (p. 11)
• 3. Measurement in Maintenance Management (p. 37)
• 4. Data Acquisition (p. 95)
• 5. Materials Management Optimization (p. 125)
• Managing Equipment Reliability
• 6. Assessing and Managing Risk (p. 147)
• 7. Reliability by Design: Reliability-Centered Maintenance (p. 183)
• 8. Reliability by Operator: Total Productive Maintenance (p. 221)
• Optimizing Maintenance Decisions
• 9. Reliability Management and Maintenance Optimization: Basic Statistics and Economics (p. 239)
• 10. Maintenance Optimization Models (p. 269)
• 11. Optimizing Maintenance and Replacement Decisions (p. 289)
• 12. Optimizing Condition-Based Maintenance (p. 323)
• Conclusion
• 13. Achieving Maintenance Excellence (p. 367)
• Appendix 1 Mean Time to Failure (p. 379)
• Appendix 2 Median Ranks (p. 381)
• Appendix 3 Censored Data (p. 385)
• Appendix 4 The Three-Parameter Weibull Function (p. 387)
• Appendix 5 Confidence Intervals (p. 391)
• Appendix 6 Estimating (Fitting) the Distribution (p. 395)
• Appendix 7 Kolmogorov-Smirnov Goodness-of-Fit Test (p. 397)
• Appendix 8 Present Value (p. 401)
• Appendix 9 Cost of Capital Required for Economic-Life Calculations (p. 407)
• Appendix 10 Optimal Number of Workshop Machines to Meet a Fluctuating Workload (p. 413)
• Appendix 11 Optimal Size of a Maintenance Workforce to Meet a Fluctuating Workload, Taking into Account Subcontracting Opportunities (p. 415)
• Appendix 12 Fuzzy Logic (p. 421)
• Appendix 13 Neural Nets (p. 423)
• Appendix 14 Optimal Interval Between Preventive Replacements of Equipment Subject to Breakdown (p. 429)
• Appendix 15 Optimal Preventive Replacement Age of Equipment Subject to Breakdown (p. 433)
• Appendix 16 Optimal Preventive Replacement Age of Equipment Subject to Breakdown, Taking into Account Time Required to Effect Failure and Preventive Replacements (p. 437)
• Appendix 17 Optimal Replacement Interval for Capital Equipment: Minimization of Total Cost (p. 441)
• Appendix 18 The Economic-Life Model Used in PERDEC (p. 445)
• Appendix 19 Economic Life of Passenger Buses (p. 447)
• Appendix 20 Optimal Replacement Age of an Asset, Taking into Account Tax Considerations (p. 455)
• Appendix 21 Optimal Replacement Policy for Capital Equipment, Taking into Account Technological Improvement--Infinite Planning Horizon (p. 457)
• Appendix 22 Optimal Replacement Policy for Capital Equipment, Taking into Account Technological Improvement--Finite Planning Horizon (p. 461)
• Appendix 23 Optimal Inspection Frequency: Minimization of Downtime (p. 465)
• Appendix 24 Maintenance Strategic Assessment (MSA) Questionnaire (p. 467)
• Index (p. 479)