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Detailed review of:
The Maintenance Management Framework: Models and Methods for Complex Systems Maintenance
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Publishers:
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Springer U.K.
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Author:
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Adolfo Crespo Márquez
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Title:
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The Maintenance Management Framework: Models and Methods for Complex Systems Maintenance
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Year of Publication:
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2007
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Pages:
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333
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ISBN:
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9781846288203
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Review complete
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The book comprises of 18 chapters in 3 parts as listed below:
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Foreword by G.E. Apostolakis
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2 Pages
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Preface
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2 Pages
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Part 1. Maintenance Management Definition and Characterization
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Chapter 1
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On the Definition of Maintenance Management
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10 pages
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Chapter 2
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Maintenance Management Characterization: Process, Framework and Supporting Pillars
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30 Pages
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Part 2. Basic Concepts for Complex System Maintenance
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Chapter 3
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The Failure Concept
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5 Pages
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Chapter 4
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Failure Models
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19 Pages
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Chapter 5
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Maintenance Concept
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8 Pages
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Chapter 6
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Basic Maintenance Models
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13 Pages
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Part 3. Developing the Maintenance Management Framework
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Chapter 7
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A Review of Key Decision Areas in Maintenance Management Modeling
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8 Pages
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Chapter 8
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Definitions of Maintenance Objectives and Strategy
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6 Pages
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Chapter 9
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Criticality Analysis for Asset Priority Setting
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20 Pages
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Chapter 10
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Root Cause Failure Analysis for High Impact Weak Points
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6 Pages
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Chapter 11
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A Method to Design the Maintenance Plan
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23 Pages
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Chapter 12
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Models to Deal with Maintenance Capacity Planning
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28 Pages
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Chapter 13
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Models to Deal with Maintenance Activities Planning
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39 Pages
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Chapter 14
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Models to Deal with Maintenance Scheduling Issues
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38 Pages
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Chapter 15
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Overall Maintenance Management Assessment
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9 Pages
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Chapter 16
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Failures Impact on Life Cycle Cost Analysis
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20 Pages
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Chapter 17
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Maintenance Continuous Improvement Through Organizational Efficiency
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11 Pages
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Chapter 18
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The E-Maintenance Revolution
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23 Pages
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Index
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5 Pages
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As the table of contents reflects the book has been organized in three distinct parts. The first part discusses the basic definitions and requirements of maintenance management such as planning, scheduling and execution including assessment and improvements. The second part provides necessary background.
in understanding what constitutes a failure and what is required of a maintenance programme. This part also discusses various maintenance policy models , such as replacement models (constant interval and age based) partial with minimum repairs and imperfect maintenance, shock based replacement and inspection models etc. The third part provides deep study of maintenance objectives and strategies. This part discusses the approaches to design maintenance plans with an aim to plan maintenance capacity, activities, scheduling and assessment. A good account of reliability centred maintenance (RCM) and its use for selection of maintenance activities is also provided. Very many tools, such as FMEA, Criticality Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, CPM and PERT methods etc and their use in maintenance management find a place in this book. Markov models find a distinct place in the models for activity planning. Overall maintenance assessment includes assessing operational dependability comprising operational availability, reliability and maintainability.
The author has done a good job of complementing the book by including a well-written chapter on e-maintenance thereby providing a complete account of the on-going efforts and innovations in the area of maintenance planning, execution and improvements. In short, the author must be complimented for bringing out a complete book on maintenance management, which will be found useful by the practicing maintenance managers and engineers of all industries and organizations.
K. B. Misra
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