By
V. Narayan

Industrial Press

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Narayan, V.
Effective maintenance management : risk and reliability strategies for optimizing performance / V. Narayan.
p. cm
ISBN 0-8311-3178-0

1. Plant maintenance Management. 2. Reliability (Engineering). 3. Risk Management. I. Title.

TS192.N355 2003
658.2 dc22 2003055881

Effective Maintenance Management

Interior Text and Cover Design: Janet Romano
Managing Editor: John Carleo

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Copyright 2004. Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved. This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form without the permission of the publisher.

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Dedication

To the memory of my late parents Venkatraman and Meenakshi, and my late mother-in-law Saraswathy.

Acknowledgements

I have had the good fortune to work with talented and experienced people throughout my working life. In writing this book, I have used the knowledge gained from the interaction with the thinking and work of many colleagues, associates and friends. I hope I have done justice to all of them, and that readers, especially maintenance practitioners, apply the knowledge they gain,...