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100 Years in Maintenance and Reliability—Practical Lessons from Three Lifetimes at Process Plants

 


 

100 Years in Maintenance: Practical Lessons from Three Lifetimes at Process Plants

by V. Narayan, Jim Wardhaugh and Mahen Das

2008 (375 pages)

ISBN:9780831133238

Copiously illustrated, with charts, diagrams and tables, this book describes 42 real-life events and/or situations in the careers of the three authors from which they gained insights into the applicable best practices in maintenance and reliability.

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Table of Contents

100 Years in Maintenance and Reliability—Practical Lessons from Three Lifetimes at Process Plants

Foreword

Part 1 - Introduction

Chapter 1

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Introduction and Navigation Guide

Chapter 2

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The Locations

Part 2 - Leadership

Chapter 3

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Creating the Vision and Seeing it through to Fruition

Chapter 4

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Setting Objectives … Why Customer Expectations Matter

Chapter 5

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Changing Paradigms …with Leadership and Expertise

Chapter 6

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Applying Business Best Practices …Focus, Alignment, and Speedy Implementation Help to Reap Benefits

Chapter 7

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Evaluate Contractors' Unit Rates

Chapter 8

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Benchmarking

Part 3 - People

Chapter 9

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Staffing Levels

Chapter 10

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Integrating Inspection and Degradation Strategies …A Launch Pad for a Bigger Reliability Initiative

Chapter 11

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Technician Training Challenge

Chapter 12

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Competence Profiles …Rice Farmer or World Expert?

Chapter 13

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Operators and Maintainers

Chapter 14

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Building a Reliability Culture

Chapter 15

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Managing Surplus Staff

Chapter 16

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Retraining Surplus Staff

Part 4 - Plan

Chapter 17

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Integrated Planning

Chapter 18

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Critical Path Planning Capability

Chapter 19

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Shutdown Management …Keep the Money Machine Running.

Chapter 20

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Electrical Maintenance Strategies …Doing Unnecessary Work Won't Stop Failures

Chapter 21

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Minor Maintenance by Operators …Do Operators have Useable Spare Time?

Chapter 22

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Relocating Machine Tools

Chapter 23

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Painting Contract Strategy

Part 5 - Schedule

Chapter 24

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Long Look-Ahead Plan

Chapter 25

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Workload Management …From Chaos to Order

Chapter 26

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Infrastructure Maintenance

Chapter 27

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Workflow Management—McGregor's Theory X or Theory Y, Authoritarian or Participative Management?

Part 6 - Execute

Chapter 28

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Trip Testing

Chapter 29

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Work the Plan

Chapter 30

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Keeping to Schedule

Chapter 31

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Operators as a Maintenance Resource

Chapter 32

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Overtime Control

Chapter 33

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Manage Contractors

Part 7 - Analyze

Chapter 34

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Reliability Engineering in New Projects

Chapter 35

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Computing Reliability Data

Chapter 36

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Turnaround Performance Improvements

Chapter 37

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Reducing Shutdown Duration (A Practical Illustration)

Chapter 38

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A Small Matter of Cleaning

Chapter 39

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Motor Maintenance Regimes Listen, Look, But Keep Them Running?

Chapter 40

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Boiler Feed-Water Pump Seals

Chapter 41

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Cooling Water Pump Failures

Chapter 42

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Heater Outlet Flue Gas Dampers

Chapter 43

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Laboratory Oven Failures

Chapter 44

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Pump Reliability

Chapter 45

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Book Summary

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