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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	-	Introduction and Navigation Guide
Chapter 2	-	The Locations
Part 2 - Leadership
Chapter 3	-	Creating the Vision and Seeing it through to Fruition
Chapter 4	-	Setting Objectives … Why Customer Expectations Matter
Chapter 5	-	Changing Paradigms …with Leadership and Expertise
Chapter 6	-	Applying Business Best Practices …Focus, Alignment, and Speedy Implementation Help to Reap Benefits
Chapter 7	-	Evaluate Contractors' Unit Rates
Chapter 8	-	Benchmarking
Part 3 - People
Chapter 9	-	Staffing Levels
Chapter 10	-	Integrating Inspection and Degradation Strategies …A Launch Pad for a Bigger Reliability Initiative
Chapter 11	-	Technician Training Challenge
Chapter 12	-	Competence Profiles …Rice Farmer or World Expert?
Chapter 13	-	Operators and Maintainers
Chapter 14	-	Building a Reliability Culture
Chapter 15	-	Managing Surplus Staff
Chapter 16	-	Retraining Surplus Staff
Part 4 - Plan
Chapter 17	-	Integrated Planning
Chapter 18	-	Critical Path Planning Capability
Chapter 19	-	Shutdown Management …Keep the Money Machine Running.
Chapter 20	-	Electrical Maintenance Strategies …Doing Unnecessary Work Won't Stop Failures
Chapter 21	-	Minor Maintenance by Operators …Do Operators have Useable Spare Time?
Chapter 22	-	Relocating Machine Tools
Chapter 23	-	Painting Contract Strategy
Part 5 - Schedule
Chapter 24	-	Long Look-Ahead Plan
Chapter 25	-	Workload Management …From Chaos to Order
Chapter 26	-	Infrastructure Maintenance
Chapter 27	-	Workflow Management—McGregor's Theory X or Theory Y, Authoritarian or Participative Management?
Part 6 - Execute
Chapter 28	-	Trip Testing
Chapter 29	-	Work the Plan
Chapter 30	-	Keeping to Schedule
Chapter 31	-	Operators as a Maintenance Resource
Chapter 32	-	Overtime Control
Chapter 33	-	Manage Contractors
Part 7 - Analyze
Chapter 34	-	Reliability Engineering in New Projects
Chapter 35	-	Computing Reliability Data
Chapter 36	-	Turnaround Performance Improvements
Chapter 37	-	Reducing Shutdown Duration (A Practical Illustration)
Chapter 38	-	A Small Matter of Cleaning
Chapter 39	-	Motor Maintenance Regimes Listen, Look, But Keep Them Running?
Chapter 40	-	Boiler Feed-Water Pump Seals
Chapter 41	-	Cooling Water Pump Failures
Chapter 42	-	Heater Outlet Flue Gas Dampers
Chapter 43	-	Laboratory Oven Failures
Chapter 44	-	Pump Reliability
Chapter 45	-	Book Summary
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