This book 'Operations Research: Theory and Practice' provides various concepts, theoretical and practical knowledge and develops the techno-managerial skills in the field of engineering. All the angles and approaches of operations applicable to both industrial and institutional needs are presented. It also provides an insight into the historical development of Operations Research. Examples and problems from usual situations that occur in industries are presented wherever necessary. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

In coal mining, the load hauling dumpers move on roads for a longer duration and are so subjected to more number of times and longer durations of failures. Further, any small failures in these machines add to unpredictable loss and damages at times. In view of this, they have to be maintained properly. The Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Models are better suitable than ordinary preventive maintenance techniques to control the failures. An effort is made in this direction through this book. The field data of failures (in terms of number of failures and tbf) for the past 3 years is collected and analyzed by using various statistical tools and RCM models to establish the maintenance frequency and scheduled accordingly with reliability orientation instead of mere time based maintenance. The trend analysis by both analytical/graphical methods provides a direction to determine if the failures are i.i.d. which in turn can be put in HPP or NHPP or Renewable Process depending exponential fit. The goodness of fit tests and reliability growth models can pave the way to calculate the maintenance intervals with reliability orientation.

Instrumentation: Operation, Measurement, Scope and Application of Instruments, provides various concepts, theoretical and practical knowledge and develops the techno-managerial skill in the field of instrumentation. Various possible methods of measurements of commonly used instruments for measuring various quantities often used in engineering and design are provided, presented and discussed sufficiently from fundamentals to advancements. It aims at providing an insight into various concepts and awareness as well as developments of the field. Numerical problems and examples and usual situations that occur in industries and daily life are presented as necessary.

Plant Maintenance and Reliability Engineering provides both theoretical and practical knowledge together with the latest technological concepts and research in the field. The topics covered in this book are an integral part of the syllabi in most of the universities in India and meet the requirements of the course plant maintenance and reliability engineering taught in mechanical engineering and all allied branches.