Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices

by Ramesh Gulati, Ricky Smith (Contributor)

To manufacture quality products or provide services at competitive prices is essential to survive in today's business climate. We are forced to look for better ways of doing things on continual basis. To meet customer's needs - on their schedule - requires (high) availability and reliability of equipment and systems when they are needed. In the maintenance and reliability (M&R) field, professionals are constantly challenged to implement the best way to ensure equipment is available as and when it is needed at a reasonable cost. These are called "best practices." But it is not as simple as putting something into effect. To truly realize a best practice requires learning, re-learning, benchmarking and implementing better ways of ensuring high reliability and availability of equipment and systems. Maintenance & Reliability Best Practices is designed to support that learning process. Written by professionals with 60 plus years of shop floor and management experience in a variety of industries, this practical resource will help seasoned professionals and novices understand the basic principles of maintenance and reliability. Written in an easy-to-read format, each chapter discusses the concepts with specific questions and answers. Each topic answers the what, why or how of the topic being presented. Understanding and implementing M&R practices in a cost-effective way is essential. This is perfect book for all in the work force of an organization who need to have a solid understanding of M&R.

416 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Bill Warden · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good book for anyone working in Maintenance or trying to understand Maintenance principles.

There are a number of editing mistakes that bothered me, but they weren't bad enough to make the book "unreadable".

Understand that this is more of a text book than reading book, though.

If you're planning on getting your CMRP, then you need to take the time to read this one through.

[Mark Keneipp · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best book to read and understand to pass the CMRP Certified Maintenance Reliabilty Professional Examination. It covers everything one needs to know that will be on the exam.

[Noah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of good knowledge in this book but some of the graphs/tables were off. A good number of editing mistakes.