| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Author's biography | p. xv |
| Introductory chapters | p. 1 |
| A business-centered approach to maintenance systems | p. 3 |
| Introduction | p. 4 |
| Business-centered maintenance | p. 4 |
| An example of the application of BCM: background | p. 6 |
| Part A: Audit of the FPP maintenance department | p. 7 |
| Maintenance objectives | p. 8 |
| Life plans and preventive schedule | p. 9 |
| Workload | p. 11 |
| Maintenance organization | p. 12 |
| Maintenance work planning | p. 16 |
| Maintenance control system | p. 19 |
| Maintenance documentation | p. 23 |
| Audit summary | p. 25 |
| Part B: An alternative maintenance strategy for continuous operation | p. 25 |
| Part C: A longer-term view of organizational change | p. 26 |
| The strategic thought process | p. 27 |
| Introduction to maintenance management systems | p. 33 |
| The company expressed as a hierarchic systems model | p. 34 |
| Identifying the maintenance systems | p. 36 |
| Budgeting and control | p. 39 |
| Maintenance budgeting | p. 41 |
| Introduction | p. 42 |
| Maintenance budgeting | p. 42 |
| The budgeting procedure | p. 45 |
| Maintenance management control | p. 53 |
| Introduction | p. 54 |
| The basics of maintenance management control | p. 55 |
| Principles of maintenance management control | p. 56 |
| The control of overall maintenance performance | p. 57 |
| The control of maintenance effectiveness (the control of plant reliability) | p. 61 |
| Reactive control of plant reliability | p. 61 |
| Pro-active control of unit reliability | p. 62 |
| The control of organizational efficiency | p. 63 |
| Incorporating systems into the organization | p. 64 |
| Published methods for measuring maintenance performance | p. 67 |
| The use of indices of maintenance performance for inter-firm comparisons | p. 67 |
| Human factors and data collection | p. 67 |
| Work planning and work control | p. 71 |
| Short-term work planning and control | p. 73 |
| Introduction | p. 74 |
| The fundamentals of work planning | p. 74 |
| Modeling the operation of a short-term work planning system | p. 75 |
| The shift work planning system | p. 79 |
| The weekend work planning system | p. 81 |
| Feedback of maintenance data for control | p. 82 |
| Comments on work planning and work control | p. 83 |
| Guidelines for the design of work planning systems | p. 84 |
| Safety aspects | p. 88 |
| Management of plant turnarounds - Part 1: Network analysis | p. 91 |
| Introduction | p. 92 |
| Terms, concepts and definitions in network analysis | p. 93 |
| The network planning procedure | p. 96 |
| Data collection | p. 97 |
| Constructing the logic diagram | p. 97 |
| Establishing the critical path, floats and overhaul time | p. 99 |
| Deriving a bar chart from the network | p. 101 |
| Resource histograms | p. 102 |
| Comments | p. 103 |
| Management of plant turnarounds - Part 2: Turnaround methodology | p. 109 |
| Introduction | p. 110 |
| Phase 1: Initiating the turnaround | p. 110 |
| Forming a policy team and appointing a turnaround manager | p. 110 |
| Key policy decisions for the initiation phase | p. 113 |
| Selecting a preparation team | p. 114 |
| Collecting the job lists and other data | p. 114 |
| Phase 2: Preparing the turnaround | p. 114 |
| Analyzing and validating the workscope | p. 114 |
| Freezing the worklist | p. 116 |
| Preparing task specifications | p. 116 |
| Identifying pre-shutdown work | p. 116 |
| Defining contractor work packages and selecting contractors | p. 120 |
| Creating the work schedule | p. 120 |
| Techniques for creating a schedule | p. 120 |
| Optimizing the schedule | p. 123 |
| Forming the turnaround organization | p. 123 |
| Defining the site logistics | p. 125 |
| Formulating a cost estimate | p. 125 |
| Formulating a safety plan | p. 126 |
| Formulation of the quality plan | p. 127 |
| Briefing of all turnaround personnel | p. 127 |
| Phase 3: Executing the turnaround | p. 128 |
| The shutdown of the plant | p. 128 |
| Carrying out the turnaround tasks | p. 129 |
| Defining and costing the extra work | p. 129 |
| Defining and costing additional work | p. 129 |
| Monitoring progress, productivity, safety, quality and expenditure | p. 129 |
| Starting up the plant | p. 130 |
| Phase 4: Terminating the turnaround | p. 130 |
| Spare parts management | p. 135 |
| Spare parts management | p. 137 |
| Introduction | p. 138 |
| Outline of the stores operation | p. 139 |
| Inventory policy | p. 142 |
| Inventory policy for fast-moving spares | p. 142 |
| Inventory policies for the control of slow-moving spares | p. 145 |
| Management of repairable equipment (rotables) | p. 150 |
| Introduction | p. 150 |
| The rotable system | p. 150 |
| Rotable inventory policy: the theory | p. 153 |
| Rotable inventory policy: in practice | p. 155 |
| Inventory policy guidelines | p. 155 |
| Stores documentation | p. 156 |
| Stores organization | p. 160 |
| Stores and rotable performance indices | p. 161 |
| Summary | p. 162 |
| Documentation | p. 165 |
| Maintenance documentation systems: what they are and how they work | p. 167 |
| Introduction | p. 168 |
| A functional model | p. 168 |
| Plant inventory (Module 1) | p. 170 |
| Information base (Element 2) | p. 172 |
| Preventive maintenance schedule (Module 3) | p. 177 |
| Condition monitoring (Module 4) | p. 179 |
| Short-term work planning (Module 5) | p. 180 |
| Long-term work planning (Module 6) | p. 182 |
| Maintenance control (Module 7) | p. 185 |
| Summary | p. 187 |
| Computerized maintenance information systems: their uses and problems | p. 189 |
| Introduction | p. 190 |
| Computerized documentation: historical background | p. 190 |
| The benefits of computerized maintenance information systems | p. 193 |
| The problems with computerized maintenance information systems | p. 195 |
| Summary | p. 196 |
| Case study | p. 199 |
| Case study: Maintenance audit of an agricultural chemical plant | p. 201 |
| Introduction | p. 202 |
| An overview of Fertec A | p. 202 |
| Objectives | p. 203 |
| Comments on objectives | p. 204 |
| Maintenance strategy | p. 206 |
| Plant-operating characteristics | p. 206 |
| Ammonia plant maintenance strategy | p. 206 |
| Maintenance organization | p. 212 |
| Introduction | p. 212 |
| The maintenance resource structure | p. 212 |
| The maintenance administrative structure | p. 215 |
| Work planning systems | p. 217 |
| Short-term work planning, scheduling and control | p. 217 |
| The planning of the major shutdowns | p. 223 |
| Spare parts management | p. 225 |
| Introduction | p. 225 |
| Outline of the stores organization and systems | p. 225 |
| Maintenance control | p. 226 |
| The control of overall maintenance performance | p. 226 |
| The control of organizational efficiency | p. 226 |
| The control of maintenance effectiveness (plant reliability control) | p. 227 |
| Documentation | p. 227 |
| Comments and recommendations | p. 228 |
| Weibull analysis | p. 229 |
| Weibull analysis of item lifetime | p. 229 |
| Weibull probability paper | p. 232 |
| A Weibull analysis of a large and complete sample of times-to-failure | p. 232 |
| Index | p. 235 |
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