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This book deals with the management of risks through the life cycle of a process plant. From Book News, Inc. Writing in a language and style that engineers, managers, and supervisors alike can understand and easily apply, Narayan, a mechanical engineer, examines the role of maintenance in minimizing the risk of safety and environmental incidents, adverse publicity, and loss of profitability, and describes risk reduction tools and explains their applicability to specific situations. He details a risk reduction model that links maintenance to risk, and provides a table of fixed format codes that can be adapted for use in most maintenance management systems. Chapter previews and summaries, a glossary, and a list of acronyms are included.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Ricky Smith, Executive Director, Maintenance Solutions "A book with true content, without having to own numerous other books to provide information one might need. Great book..." Book Description 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.
Distinctive Features You'll Find - 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.
From the Author Many years ago, I was asked a question - why do we do maintenance? At first sight, the answer seemed obvious, but on reflection, I feel it needs to be addressed more rigorously. If we could explain the role of maintenance in a business context rather than a technical one, perhaps we could get more people, especially managers and shareholders, to understand its role. What do we actually do when we manage a business? In my view, we manage the risk - of safety and environmental incidents, adverse publicity, loss of efficiency or productivity, asset value and loss of market share. When we think about risks, we tend to see its quantitative aspects, involving the probability and consequence of events. But perceived risks can be important too. They are quite complex and difficult to manage as they deal with human feelings and emotions. The level and type of risks vary over the life of the business. We think of some people or businesses as risk-seeking or risk-averse. Is this right? Researchers have established that it is not merely a mind-set, with many factors determining their attitude to risk Why do seemingly minor incidents sometimes escalate into disasters? Why do some companies or industries in high hazard businesses still have outstanding safety records? What is the role of maintenance in these industries? To answer these questions, we need to appreciate the link between maintenance, reliability and risk. I have tried to explain all this in simple language, so that people on the shop floor can understand them. About the Author 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 and 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.
Reviews:
It's all about risk management: I like the way V. Narayan describes the maintenance process from risk management perspective. We also understand from his book that the risk can be described quantitatively, qualitatively or can even be just a perception, still to be addressed. As with all risk management issues there is a reward and also price to pay. You can collect most of the rewards at least cost if you can make informed decisions about your maintenance strategy. The author describes all the necessary tools and techniques, together with the possible pitfalls, for making the right decisions.
State-of-the-Art Maintenance Management: Forty six years ago, soon after graduating as a mechanical engineer from a premier university in India, I joined the process industry. I was hired as a junior engineer and assigned as a trainee in the maintenance department. The concept of maintenance at that time, was, "tear it apart every so often, repair if anything inside is broken, and put it together again"; This was called preventive maintenance, If it broke down before its turn for preventive maintenance, as it often did, then run around like mad to fix it as quickly as possible. Top management was too distant; they did not want to know anything about maintenance as long as the broken it was repaired as soon as possible. There were very sharp boundaries between operators who ran the machines, the technologists who advised the operators on process technology, and maintainers who "fixed" the machines. As a result, in general (i.e outside very critical systems such as aircraft and nuclear plants) concepts such as operational reliability with a holistic approach were non-existent. No one had yet thought of applying statistical techniques to the practice of maintenance. The idea of total life-cycle cost of the plant and its optimization was still a few decades in the future. Over the last four decades, spurred by the increasing need for gaining the competitive edge, especially in the process industry where the cost of maintenance can be as high as 40% of the total operating cost, top management has started to take a very close look at maintenance. It is through the efforts of engineers such as Narayan that maintenance has today, reached the state it has. In this, his latest publication, Narayan covers all that was missing from the practice of maintenance 4 ½ decades ago. In a simple and very readable manner, he demonstrates how maintenance, reliability and costs are linked and how controlling (i.e. assessing, quantifying and, if necessary, reducing) risk is the key for improving performance in these areas. He also suggests tools and techniques with which the practicing maintenance engineer will be familiar. At the end of every chapter, there is a list of useful references and suggestions for further reading should the reader want to go deeper into any aspect in that chapter. All this is packaged in 246 pages in a very reader friendly type and font. In my opinion this is essential reading for all managers as well as maintenance practitioners in any industry where there is concern about maintenance and reliability of systems.
A Practical and Balanced Perspective: I come from a Reliability background which originated with a corporate R&D group of a Fortune 500 firm. Per our R&D efforts, we viewed Reliability Engineering as encompassing Equipment, Process and Human Reliability issues. Vee has concisely incorporated these three facets of Reliability into the Maintenance realm as well, allowing the reader to understand the big picture of developing an all-encompassing Maintenance and Reliability strategy. This "effective", all-encompassing strategy will consider the short-term and long-term objectives of the organization and identify the proper balance of reactive and proactive work to be optimally done. This book would also be an excellent desk reference for those who seek a foundation for terminology, as such standardized and accepted definitions are rare in our industry. Thanks Vee for sharing your expertise with others who can learn from your vast experience.
Effective Maintenance Mamagement: What I like about this book is that it places maintenance in context of the wider society. I think in this bottom line world we know the cost of everything but perhaps the value of nothing so it is fundamental to really understand why it is necessary, or not, to maintain functional assets. The author explains with clarity those analytical processes applied to develop maintenance tasks that when appropriately implemented will reduce the probability of failure or degradation of functional assets. This is particularly important in any industry where the Operator must demonstrate risks are as low as are reasonably practicable. The book also explains how effective maintenance will not only ensure technical integrity but can reduce operating costs significantly and more importantly increase revenue streams through high equipment availability. I also find it very refreshing that in its wider context the book illuminates the human aspects related to the maintenance process and how different are our perceptions of risk. It is critically important to understand for example the behavioural aspects as to why, after appropriate maintenance tasks have been developed, non-compliance with these tasks may be endemic, and how different individual perceptions of risk may lead to flawed decision making.