Complex System Maintenance Handbook

by Kobbacy, Khairy A. H.; Murthy, D. N. P.

• ISBN13: 9781848000100
• ISBN10: 1848000103
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-16
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This utterly comprehensive work is thought to be the first to integrate the literature on the physics of the failure of complex systems such as hospitals, banks and transport networks. It has chapters on particular aspects of maintenance written by internationally-renowned researchers and practitioners. This book will interest maintenance engineers and managers in industry as well as researchers and graduate students in maintenance, industrial engineering and applied mathematics.

Author Biography

Professor Kobbacy is a professor of management science at the Centre of Operational Research and Applied Statistics, and also the Director of Management and Management Sciences Research Institute, at Salford University, UK. He has a long-standing interest in "applied" operational research. He has previously lectured in operational research at Strathclyde University after gaining industrial experience in a major oil company. His research interests in operations management are directed towards the development of intelligent management systems for maintenance scheduling and inventory control. His research in preventive maintenance scheduling and management has been funded by industry and research councils. Professor Kobbacy was awarded the Operational Research President's medal in 1990 and was a vice president of the Operational Research Society, UK, from 2002 to 2004.Professor Murthy obtained B.E. and M.E. degrees from Jabalpur University and the Indian Institute of Science in India, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He is currently a Research Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Queensland and a Senior Scientific Advisor to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has held visiting appointments at several universities in the USA, Europe and Asia. His current research interests include various aspects of technology management (new product development, strategic management of technology), operations management (lot sizing, quality, reliability, maintenance), and post-sale support (warranties, service contracts). He has run short courses for industry on various topics in technology management, operations management and post-sale support in Australia, Asia, Europe and the USA.

Table of Contents

An Overview
An Overview	p. 3
Evolution of Concepts and Approaches
Maintenance: An Evolutionary Perspective	p. 21
New Technologies for Maintenance	p. 49
Reliability Centred Maintenance	p. 79
Methods and Techniques
Condition-based Maintenance Modelling	p. 111
Maintenance Based on Limited Data	p. 133
Reliability Prediction and Accelerated Testing	p. 155
Preventive Maintenance Models for Complex Systems	p. 179
Artificial Intelligence in Maintenance	p. 209
Problem Specific Models
Maintenance of Repairable Systems	p. 235
Optimal Maintenance of Multi-component Systems: A Review	p. 263
Replacement of Capital Equipment	p. 287
Maintenance and Production: A Review of Planning Models	p. 321
Delay Time Modelling	p. 345
Management
Maintenance Outsourcing	p. 373
Maintenance of Leased Equipment	p. 395
Computerised Maintenance Management Systems	p. 417
Risk Analysis in Maintenance	p. 437
Maintenance Performance Measurement (MPM) System	p. 459
Forecasting for Inventory Management of Service Parts	p. 479
Applications (Case Studies)
Maintenance in the Rail Industry	p. 509
Condition Monitoring of Diesel Engines	p. 533
Benchmarking of the Maintenance Process at Banverket (The Swedish National Rail Administration)	p. 559
Integrated e-Operations-e-Maintenance: Applications in North Sea Offshore Assets	p. 585
Fault Detection and Identification for Longwall Machinery Using SCADA Data	p. 611
Contributor Biographies	p. 643
Index	p. 653
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