Maintenance Engineering Handbook

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MAINTENANCE ENGINEERING HANDBOOK Sixth Edition

The latest science, technology, and management solutions for facility maintenance issues

The one reference you can bank on for current answers to virtually any maintenance question, Lindley R. Higgins’ and R. Keith Mobley’s Maintenance Engineering Handbook provides the best of today’s strategies and technologies from the world’s leading experts.

• One-stop source of answers on all maintenance engineering functions, from managing, planning, and budgeting to solving environmental problems
• New coverage of the latest computer applications, maintenance technologies, and tools
• Strategies, equipment, techniques, and tips for facilities from industrial plants to residential complexes, institutions, schools, hospitals, and office buildings

NEW IN THIS EDITION

• Technology updates
• Improvements in prevention and prediction
• Equipment testing and monitoring tools
• The latest computer programs
• Advances in maintenance economics
• Guidance on insurance administration
• New maintenance techniques for centrifugal air compressors, centrifugal pumps, and other equipment

Maintenance Engineering’s Most Current, Comprehensive, and Complete Reference

A McGraw-Hill Classic

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Buildings and grounds
Computer applications
Corrosion and cleaning
Costs and controls
Electrical equipment
Estimates and budgets
Instrumentation and monitoring tools
Inventory
Lubrication
Measuring, servicing, testing
Mechanical equipment
Organization and management
Parts and components
Personnel and policies
Practices and prevention
Sanitation and housekeeping
Specialized equipment
Welding

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The one reference you can bank on for current answers to virtually any maintenance question, Lindley R. Higgins? and R. Keith Mobley?s Maintenance Engineering Handbook provides the best of today?s strategies and technologies from the world?s leading experts.

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Great reference work for the professional maintenance engineer.......2006-07-18

This book contains over 1500 pages of figures and often dense text. It is the only book of its kind that I know of written clearly for the degreed maintenance and facilities engineer. This book is an edited work by several dozen authors who are all leading maintenance practitioners and experts in their field. The book covers both management and technical issues associated with the maintenance of the modern physical plant.

In reference to management issues, the chapter entitled "Operating Policies of Effective Maintenance" successfully deals with the strategic decisions that Maintenance managers must make, including issues such as whether or not to outsource, shift coverage, whether to decentralize or centralize maintenance, and the use of standard practice sheets and work instructions. The chapter on "Operating Practices to reduce Maintenance Work" provides a basic yet well-formulated introduction to concepts of predictive and preventive maintenance. There is fairly comprehensive coverage of how best to provide incentive payments for maintenance workers, which may or may not be applicable in certain industrial situations.

The Chapters "An Introduction to the Computer in Maintenance" and "Computerized Planning and Scheduling" run the risk of being out of date before the book has long been published. However, the principles that these chapters cover remain somewhat timeless, and also provide a useful starting point for those wishing to understand more about these aspects. Newer younger grads in the field will probably already know this material. The Chapters entitled "Maintenance Stores and Inventory Control" and "Maintenance Storerooms" are very well written. They are particularly valuable since this topic gets relatively little attention from maintenance professionals, and these chapters show their importance.

The chapter entitled "Work Measurement" should give even experienced planners new ways to look at how they estimate job durations, and the chapter entitled "Work Simplification" introduces standard industrial engineering techniques to maintenance personnel, who often are industrial engineers by training, but sometimes are not. The tools discussed include charting tools and techniques that assist planners in identifying ways to make repair tasks quicker and simpler. Planners will also benefit from reading the chapter "Estimating Repair and Maintenance Costs".

The chapters on the technical aspects of maintenance are also well-written, and could be useful both as a reminder for engineers about some fundamental concepts, as well as providing useful information for craftspeople to assist with troubleshooting and ensuring that sound maintenance quality standards are implemented. There is also a very useful introduction to the three main predictive maintenance technologies - vibration analysis, oil analysis and thermography. These sections would equip anyone with a mechanical engineering background to be able to know what questions to ask of experts in these fields.

There is a small section entitled "Sanitation and Housekeeping" that may not be relevant to maintenance engineers or tradespeople, but it is included in keeping with the book's high standard of completeness.

There are a few areas of maintenance engineering that are not covered in this book. In particular, reliability centered maintenance (RCM) and its derivatives are not covered. Reliability modeling techniques such as Weibull Analysis and Root Cause Analysis get mentioned in one brief paragraph in the chapter on vibration analysis, which is a rather odd place for the subject. With all of the recent emphasis on Six Sigma, maybe the thinking was that this would better be handled on a book on that subject. Among the technical sections, there are some fairly common equipment types that are not covered. For example, there is no coverage of the maintenance of hydraulic systems, boilers, PLC's, or distributed control systems.

In spite of these few shortcomings, this is certainly an excellent reference for the maintenance engineer for most facets of the job including planning, financial, organizational, and hands-on technical aspects. The table of contents is as follows:

SECTION 1 - ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE MAINTENANCE FUNCTION
Chapter 1 - Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Maintenance
Chapter 2 - Operating Policies of Effective Maintenance
Chapter 3 - Area and Centralized Maintenance Control
Chapter 4 - Operating Practices to Reduce Maintenance Work
Chapter 5 - Incentive Payment of Maintenance Workers
Chapter 6 - Reports from Maintenance
Chapter 7 - Maintenance Skills Training

SECTION 2 - THE HORIZONS OF MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT
Chapter 1 - Corrective Maintenance
Chapter 2 - Components of Effective Preventive Maintenance
Chapter 3 - Predictive Maintenance
Chapter 4 - Maintenance Work Order Planning
Chapter 5 - An Introduction to the Computer in Maintenance
Chapter 6 - Computerized Planning and Scheduling
Chapter 7 - Maintenance Stores and Inventory Control
Chapter 8 - Maintenance Storerooms
Chapter 9 - Internet for Maintenance and Engineering

SECTION 3 - ESTABLISHING COSTS AND CONTROL
Chapter 1 - Economics of Preventive Maintenance
Chapter 2 - Work Measurement
Chapter 3 - Rating and Evaluating Maintenance Workers
Chapter 4 - Work Simplification in Maintenance
Chapter 5 - Estimating Repair and Maintenance Costs

SECTION 4 - MAINTENANCE OF PLANT FACILITIES
Chapter 1 - Maintenance of Low-Sloped Membrane Roofs
Chapter 2 - Concrete Industrial Floor Surfaces - Design, Installation, Repair, and Maintenance
Chapter 3 - Painting and Protective Coatings
Chapter 4 - Maintenance and Cleaning of Brick Masonry Structures
Chapter 5 - Maintenance of Elevators and Special Lifts
Chapter 6 - Air-Conditioning Equipment
Chapter 7 - Ventilating Fans and Exhaust Systems
Chapter 8 - Dust-Collecting and Air-Cleaning Equipment
Chapter 9 - Piping
Chapter 10 - Scaffolds and Ladders

SECTION 5 - MAINTENANCE OF MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT
Chapter 1 - Plain Bearings
Chapter 2 - Rolling-Element Bearings
Chapter 3 - Flexible Couplings for Power Transmission
Chapter 4 - Chains for Power Transmission
Chapter 5 - Cranes - Overhead and Gantry
Chapter 6 - Chain Hoists
Chapter 7 - Belt Drives
Chapter 8 - Mechanical Variable-Speed Drives
Chapter 9 - Gear Drives and Speed Reducers
Chapter 10 - Reciprocating Air Compressors
Chapter 11 - Valves
Chapter 12 - Pumps - Centrifugal and Positive Displacement

Section 6 - MAINTENANCE OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
Chapter 1 - Electric Motors
Chapter 2 - Maintenance of Motor Control Components
Chapter 3 - Maintenance of Industrial Batteries (Lead-Acid, Nickel-Cadmium, Nickel-Iron)
Chapter 4 - Illumination

Section 7 - SANITATION AND HOUSEKEEPING
Chapter 1 - Organizing the Sanitation-Housekeeping Personnel
Chapter 2 - Maintaining Plant Sanitation and Housekeeping
Chapter 3 - Industrial Housekeeping
Chapter 4 - Cleaning Industrial Plant Offices

Section 8 - INSTRUMENTS AND RELIABILITY TOOLS
Chapter 1 - Mechanical Instruments for Measuring Process Variables
Chapter 2 - Electrical Instruments for Measuring, Servicing and Testing
Chapter 3 - Vibration - Its Analysis and Correction
Chapter 4 - An Introduction to Thermography
Chapter 5 - Tribology

Section 9 - LUBRICATION
Chapter 1 - The Organization and Management of Lubrication
Chapter 2 - Lubricating Devices and Systems
Chapter 3 - Planning and Implementing a Good Lubrication Program

Section 10 - MAINTENANCE WELDING
Chapter 1 - Arc Welding in Maintenance
Chapter 2 - Gas Welding in Maintenance

Section 11 - CHEMICAL CORROSION CONTROL AND CLEANING
Chapter 1 - Corrosion Control
Chapter 2 - Industrial Chemical Cleaning Methods

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Dissappointed..........2003-09-12

This book is a basic guide to understand what lubrication is, and an introduction to the terms employed on this subject. There's no useful level of detail for a person that has been more than three months involved in this area in practice.

I disagree with the Editorial Review that describes it as a detailed set of explanations about many items involved in the lubrication process in industry. A basic description is not what I've always understood as a detailed explanation. This review is what made me buy the book; now I know this is not the book for anyone who wants a medium degree of clear information.

Excellent beginners guide.......1998-02-24

As someone without a trained mechanical background, I found the book extremely approachable, entertaining and understandable. Highly recommended.

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The future of computing-the future of business
Rapid technological innovation is moving us towards a world of ubiquitous computing-a world in which we are surrounded by smart machines that are always on, always aware, and always monitoring us. These developments will create a world virtually without secrets in which information is widely available and analyzable worldwide. This environment will certainly affect business, government, and the individual alike, dramatically affecting the way organizations and individuals interact. This book explores the implications of the coming world and suggests and explores policy options that can protect individuals and organizations from exploitation and safeguard the implicit contract between employees, businesses, and society itself. World Without Secrets casts an unflinching eye on a future we may not necessarily desire, but will experience.

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A collection of snippets of other people's thinking.......2006-11-14

This book, published a scant four years ago, was old before its time.

Authors who have to create new words to discuss their oh-so-advanced concepts always strike me as self-aggrandizing, pretentious and usually silly. Author Hunter borrows and invents words like "Mentat" and "I-filters" to describe mundane, everyday concepts. Mentat is taken from Frank Herberts "Dune": a Mentat is essentially a human computer. The bottom line is that we rely on others to help us in reaching decisions and - surprise - those others may not have our best interests at heart and may, in fact, be using our "secrets", like our music preferences, to influence our decisions.

This is not news.

Hunter not only likes movies, he draws life lessons from them. There are dozens of references to movies in this book.

Hunter has a few schmaltzy rules that he has created, like "When everything is known, no one knows everything." Ponder that. But don't expect to get paid for it.

Ultimately this wandering book of nostrums, recycled newspaper stories and references to Hollywood movies as sources of wisdom comes down to a muffled sales pitch for Gartner, "the world's largest technology research firm." "Lots of systems administrators aren't taking these basic steps now, and that's a prime reason why their systems get cracked." But fear not is the implied message, Gartner can help save you! "Any credible vulnerability assessment will find two out of three Web servers connected to the Internet are vulnerable to simple attacks that can ar least result in changing the contenrt of the Web server," my Gartner colleague said . . . Get the message?

Ultimately the hyper-ventilated theme is that there are no secrets. Moreover, the author fears deep ". . . surveillance of ordindary citizens." Excuse me, but in a nation where your income sources, bank accounts, spending patterns, medical histories and everything else have been closely scruitinized for decades, what are you concerned with?

The message is fear-mongering about a situation that has been with us for a long time. Hunter brings nothing new to the table, except a penchant for quoting from movies as if they were brothers and sisters to Socrates.

Jerry

New York Times April 28, 2002, Book Review?.......2006-03-14

Fascinating book. Fascinating man. Why didn't Amazon reprint the New York Times review of this book (William J. Holstein, NYT April 28, 2002)?

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This book sounds like an intelligent read, full of insights on technological breakthroughs, etc.. It's not. Do you have that one guy at work, let's say, that just complains all of the time? The guy that sounds so darn whiny that you just want to slap him? That's this author, and that's this book. I mean, really, dude, who doesn't support non-lethal weapons? You're trying to sound so smart and informed about the subject. When's the last time you were standing in from of a crowd of fifty somewhere outside Balad? Moron. Just another one of those Fox News "military analysts". I'm glad I went war to support your right to publish such drivel.

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"World Without Secrets: Business, Crime and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing" - Reviewed by Stephen Lafferty

The title of Richard Hunter's book refers to the growing availability of information about the personal lives of consumers living in capitalist democratic states. The book begins with the assumption that "very little of consequence can't and won't be known about anyone or anything". Hunter approaches the subject of the erosion of personal privacy from two angles: the business and the governmental/police justifications for retaining information on individuals. His argument, that citizens in democratic countries had better take responsibility for the power of surveillance technologies while they still can, emerges from the discussion of the increasing possibilities for deriving behaviour patterns from recombining archived data.

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