Effective Maintenance Management: Risk and Reliability Strategies for Optimizing Performance

... this book has the depth and content to really help maintenance organizations change and improve reliability. This is a book with true content, without having to own numerous other books to provide information one might need. Great book...Ricky Smith, Executive Director, Maintenance Solutions.

Providing a clear explanation of the value and benefits of maintenance, this unique guide is written in a language and style that practicing engineers and managers can understand and apply easily. Effective Maintenance Management examines the role of maintenance in minimizing the risk of safety or environmental incidents, adverse publicity, and loss of profitability. In addition to discussing risk reduction tools, it explains their applicability to specific situations, thereby enabling you to select the tool that best fits your requirements. Intended to bridge the gap between designers/maintainers and reliability engineers, this guide is sure to help businesses utilize their assets more effectively, safely, and profitably.

• 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.

V. Narayan is a leading authority on maintenance and reliability engineering. A mechanical engineer with nearly 40 years of experience in maintenance and project management, he has worked in the automobile, pharmaceutical, liquefied natural gas, oil & gas production, and petroleum refining industries. In his long career he has trained, consulted and worked in many countries, including spending eight years as the head of the Maintenance Strategy group in Shell UK Exploration and Production. At Shell, Narayan was a founding member of their very successful MERIT initiative and developed refinery performance measurement methods in the 90’s that are still effectively used today. For the last 13 years, he has been teaching Maintenance Management, Reliability-Centered Maintenance and Root Cause Analysis to Royal Dutch Shell staff and others around the world.