Maintainability and Maintenance Management

A text and reference for engineers, planners, service analysts, systems engineers and other professionals, as well as college and graduate students, emphasizing preventive, predictive, and reliability-based total maintenance. Covers product planning, configuration and management, quantitative methods, allocation and prediction, life-cycle costs and profits, and computerized maintenance management. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Joseph D. Patton, Jr. is Chairman and CEO of Patton Consultants, Inc., the leading advisors to management on equipment service, logistics, and support systems. Before founding Patton Consultants in 1976, Joe was a Regular Army Officer and spent eleven years with Xerox Corporation. He is author of over two hundred published articles and eight books.

Joe Patton earned a BS degree from Penn State and a MBA in marketing from the University of Rochester. He was awarded the Pennsylvania State University College of Education 1999 Leadership and Service Award. Joe is a Registered Professional Engineer (PE) in Quality Engineering and a Fellow of both ASQ - The American Society for Quality and SOLE – The International Society of Logistics. He is a Certified Professional Logistician (CPL), Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE), a National Association of Service Managers Life-Certified Service Executive (L-CSE), and a twenty-five + year member of AFSM International. Joe Patton founded and led Service InfoSystems, Inc., which originated the COMputerized Management Systems-COMMSR. He was the Founding Chairman of Management Metrics Services, Inc.