Maintenance Systems and Documentation

By
Anthony Kelly, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

Description
Managing Systems and Documentation addresses the main systems necessary for the successful operation of a maintenance organization, such as performance control, work control and documentation. It shows how they can be modelled, their function and operating principles, and the main problems encountered in operation. It is the third of three stand–alone companion books with the aim of providing better understanding of maintenance operations, in order to identify problems and prescribe effective solutions. This is one of three stand–alone volumes designed to provide maintenance professionals in any sector with a better understanding of maintenance management, enabling the identification of problems and the delivery of effective solutions.

Audience:
Professional: Maintenance, plant, production and operations engineers in any industry sector and many service sectors; Academic: these are not text books, but their origin is in Masters–level course notes for quality, reliability and maintenance engineers and as with Kelly’s other books, they will have a rigour and pedagogy which will make them suitable course use



From the back cover:

Maintenance Systems and Documentation enables readers to understand and manage the systems that are necessary for the successful operation of a maintenance organization.

The book shows how to identify and model key maintenance systems in order to understand their function and operating principles and identify the main problems encountered in their operation. Detailed coverage is included of budgeting and costing systems, performance indices and control, maintenance information systems (including work planning and control), spare parts and inventory, shut down and outage management, and maintenance documentation systems.

. Enables you to understand and manage the systems that are necessary for the successful operation of your organization
. Covers the maintenance of plant, production and operations assets in industry and service sectors, including manufacturing, food and process engineering, minerals and mining, transport, power and IT
. Includes review questions, exercises and case studies
. Clearly specified objectives and learning outcomes are given for each chapter, including a route map to link each chapter to the rest of the topics covered

This is one of three stand–alone volumes designed to provide maintenance professionals in any sector with a better understanding of maintenance management, enabling the identification of problems and the delivery of effective solutions.

Also available as a set of three titles ‘The Plant Maintenance Management Set‘, ISBN: 0750669950


About the Author:

Dr. Anthony Kelly is a maintenance consultant of many years‘ experience. He has carried out more than sixty major maintenance consultancy projects worldwide and over the last fifteen years he has also held industrial or visiting professorships at Central Queensland University (Australia), University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) and Hogskolen I Stavanger (Norway).