| The maintenance and asset management web site |
Maintenance Online : Maintenance & Asset Management Journal : ABSTRACTS : VOLUME 12, NUMBER 3, JULY 1997
|
|
|
 |
Vol 12, No 3, The Basic Principles of Maintenance Engineering - Professor Dr Werner Tschuschke, Institute of Maintenance Engineering (IFIN), Iserlohn, Germany
The following paper presents a set of principles of maintenance engineering which have been formulated by the Institut fur Instandhaltung gGmbH (IFIN, the German Institute of Maintenance Engineering) with the aim of describing a paradigm change within maintenance. Arguments are presented in support of this proposed change and with the intention o stimulating an informed discussion among maintenance engineers in general and readers of Maintenance & Asset Management in particular. The message intended can be summarised in the three following statements:
1. The establishment of the related concepts -
wear-and-tear process,
permissible-degree-of-wear,
wear-and-tear-graph,
represents a significant milestone in the development of maintenance engineering.
2. Our knowledge of wear-and-tear processes has now advanced to the point where it can be exploited to
profitably inform corporate practice.
3. Having passed through a sequence of relatively brief innovative phases, maintenance is now established
as an independent province of engineering science.
Price: £5.00
|
|
|
|
Vol 12, No 3, Maintenance Decision Analysis - Its a capital mistake to theorise before one has data (Sherlock Holmes) - Bob Moss, Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University, UK
With the increased size and complexity of modern process plant the cost of maintenance and consequential lost-production downtime become important parameters in the overall profitability equations. Maintenance decisions can have a material effect on minimising losses but must be based on sound, relevant and timely data. Availability studies using generic data, to identify potential problem areas, can be worthwhile initially but every plant, system and type of equipment will have some unique features which will only become manifest during operation. It is necessary to measure and compare reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) performance of plant, systems and equipment with original design expectations, past experience and best industry-wide practice to show where the most cost-effective improvements can be made. Statistics on their own tell only part of the tale; coupled with the experience of maintenance engineers, however, they can become a force for continuous improvement. This paper describes a number of relatively simple graphical techniques which are suitable for implementation on process plant. Examples are given to demonstrate their use in practice.
Price: £5.00
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vol 12, No 3, Maintenance Education, The Thermo King Europe Experience - William J Barry, Thermo King Europe, Ireland
Maintenance Education, The Thermo King Europe Experience
William J Barry, Thermo King Europe, Ireland
Price: £5.00
|
|
|
Maintenance Online : Maintenance & Asset Management Journal : ABSTRACTS : VOLUME 12, NUMBER 3, JULY 1997
| The maintenance and asset management web site |
|