Riccardo Manzini, Alberto Regattieri, Hoang Pham and Emilio Ferrari
Title
:
Maintenance for Industrial Systems
Year of Publication
:
2010
Pages
:
479
ISBN
:
9781848825758
Reviewer
:
Krishna B. Misra
Status
:
Review published in IJPE, Vol.6, No.3, May 2010, page 278
The book consists of 12 chapters as follows:
Chapter 1
A New Framework for Productivity in Production Systems
16 Pages
Chapter 2
Quality Management Systems and Statistical Quality Control
36 Pages
Chapter 3
Safety and Risk Assessment
11 Pages
Chapter 4
Introduction to Maintenance in Production Systems
21 Pages
Chapter 5
Basic Statistics and Introduction to Reliability
46 Pages
Chapter 6
Reliability Evaluation and Reliability Prediction Models
56 Pages
Chapter 7
Maintenance Information System and Failure Rate Prediction
29 Pages
Chapter 8
Effects Analysis and Reliability Modelling of Complex Production Systems
94 Pages
Chapter 9
Basic Models and Methods for Maintenance of Production Systems
83 Pages
Chapter 10
Advanced Maintenance Modeling
12 Pages
Chapter 11
Spare Parts Forecasting and Management
24 Pages
Chapter 12
Applications and Case Studies
30 Pages
Appendix A:
43 Pages
Bibliography
07 Pages
Index
05 Pages
The title of this book is misnomer. This book is useful not only to maintenance engineers as is being claimed but to other engineers as well. In fact the reviewer feels that the title could have been as well a Handbook of System Dependability as the book covers not only system maintenance but also topics like quality management systems, statistical quality control, reliability, safety and risk assessment etc.. The authors have tried to cover several topics that can be called as part of system dependability as per the definition given in the Handbook of Performability Engineering1. As is evident from the table of contents, the chapters on reliability (chapter 5, 6 and 8, totaling to 196 pages), form the major portion of the book roughly 41 % of the book, whereas the chapters on maintenance sum up to 35 % of the book. Chapter 4 lays down the basic aspects of maintenance engineering. One can argue that reliability, maintenance or maintainability, safety and quality are all related topics but why then book is called maintenance for industrial systems, in particular. The title appears to be related to the work that authors have been involved in. It is difficult for the reviewer to appreciate the sequencing of the chapters. Chapter 7 should have followed the chapter 4 thereafter chapters 9, 10-12 in that sequence. Notwithstanding the above criticism, the treatment of the subject matter has width as well as depth. The book covers a wide area of modeling and is quite informative and as such the book should serve as a guide to the beginners or engineering students who would like to know various aspects of modeling for dependability in a compact form. The reviewer feels that the book can serve as good source of information on system dependability modeling. The chapter on case studies contains two case studies and is definitely valuable, however, it should have included more number of case studies on maintenance aspect (as the title of the book suggests) than given in the book and should be complete in treatment including various aspects of maintenance modeling, analysis and solution techniques.
Krishna B. Misra
This review has been published in the International Journal of Performability Engineering in Vol. 6 , No. 3, May , 2010 on page 278.
1Handbook of Performability Engineering, Edited by Krishna B. Misra, Springer Verlag, London, 2008.
The title of this book is misnomer. This book is useful not only to maintenance engineers as is being claimed but to other engineers as well. In fact the reviewer feels that the title could have been as well a Handbook of System Dependability as the book covers not only system maintenance but also topics like quality management systems, statistical quality control, reliability, safety and risk assessment etc.. The authors have tried to cover several topics that can be called as part of system dependability as per the definition given in the Handbook of Performability Engineering1. As is evident from the table of contents, the chapters on reliability (chapter 5, 6 and 8, totaling to 196 pages), form the major portion of the book roughly 41 % of the book, whereas the chapters on maintenance sum up to 35 % of the book. Chapter 4 lays down the basic aspects of maintenance engineering. One can argue that reliability, maintenance or maintainability, safety and quality are all related topics but why then book is called maintenance for industrial systems, in particular. The title appears to be related to the work that authors have been involved in. It is difficult for the reviewer to appreciate the sequencing of the chapters. Chapter 7 should have followed the chapter 4 thereafter chapters 9, 10-12 in that sequence. Notwithstanding the above criticism, the treatment of the subject matter has width as well as depth. The book covers a wide area of modeling and is quite informative and as such the book should serve as a guide to the beginners or engineering students who would like to know various aspects of modeling for dependability in a compact form. The reviewer feels that the book can serve as good source of information on system dependability modeling. The chapter on case studies contains two case studies and is definitely valuable, however, it should have included more number of case studies on maintenance aspect (as the title of the book suggests) than given in the book and should be complete in treatment including various aspects of maintenance modeling, analysis and solution techniques.