Maintainability & Maintenance Management, 4th Edition

This book emphasizes the concepts of preventive, predictive, and reliability-based total maintenance, as well as total quality management and continuous improvement. It provides an in-depth look at new technological advances and the cost advantages of investing in maintainability. Topics covered in this book include maintainability program planning and management; system engineering of reliability, availability, and maintainability; configuration management; and maintainability process.

Maintainability & Maintenance Management serves as a flexible text and reference for engineering, product planners, designers, maintainability specialists, maintenance managers, service analysts, program managers, system engineers, quality staff, and others concerned with the practice of maintainability and maintenance. Instructors will want to use this book at workshops in commerce, government, and industry, as well as in college and university courses.

Acknowledgments

Part 1 : Introduction
Chapter 1 : Overview

Part 2 : Maintainability Program Planning and Management
Chapter 2 : Product Planning
Chapter 3 : System Engineering of Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (Ram)
Chapter 4 : Configuration Management (Cm)
Chapter 5 : Maintainability Process

Part 3 : Quantitative Methods
Chapter 6 : Data Gathering, Statistical Analysis and Reporting
Chapter 7 : Analytic Techniques and Models

Part 4 : Allocation and Prediction
Chapter 8 : Time-Based Allocation and Prediction
Chapter 9 : Money -Based Allocation, Specification, and Prediction

Part 5 : Design and Production Considerations
Chapter 10 : Design and Production Guidelines
Chapter 11 : Design Reviews

Part 6 : Maintenance Foresight
Chapter 12 : Anatomy of a Service Call
Chapter 13 : Reliability : Based Maintenance

Part 7 : Money
Chapter 14 : Life : Cycle Costs and Profits

Part 8 : Human Considerations
Chapter 15 : Capabilities of Operators and Maintenance Personnel
Chapter 16 : Personnel, Organizations, and Training
Chapter 17 : Production Approach To Service
Chapter 18 : Tools

Part 9 : Testing, Demonstration, and Verification
Chapter 19 : Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (Ram) Test Planning, Administration, and Control
Chapter 20 : Formal Demonstration
Chapter 21 : Field Verification

Part 10 : Special Considerations
Chapter 22 : International Service
Chapter 23 : Work Force Management
Chapter 24 : Productivity
Chapter 25 : Repair, Rejuvenation, and Disposal
Chapter 26 : Contracts, Warranties, and Liabilities
Chapter 27 : Computerized Maintenance Management
Chapter 28 : Service Quality

Answers to Review Questions
Index