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Industrial maintenance: a simple affair? Not so! Failure has to be
curtailed effectively. This book describes how.
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Maintenance (Paperback)
Jasper Coetzee
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Failure is one of the unfortunate facts of life. Whenever man
produces equipment or tools to increase his own productivity, he
also has to deal with this unwanted side effect. And, although much
effort is applied towards improving the reliability of machinery,
the ever-increasing sophistication and complexity of these modern
technological wonders gives rise to maintenance being one of the
fastest growing industries in the world.
Maintenance is surely one of the oldest disciplines known to man.
However, the maintenance subject area was until relatively recently
thought of as being very basic, needing only the most basic
knowledge. Most industrial organizations to some or other extent
considered the maintenance department to be a necessary but costly
luxury. This view of the maintenance function totally ignores the
fact that a properly managed maintenance function creates and
maintains high levels of availability, reliability and operability
of plant. These high levels translate directly into production
capacity, productive output and thus company profit.
In line with the relatively low importance attached to the
maintenance function in most industrial organizations, the only
educational requirements attached to the posts of maintenance
engineers and managers was a degree or diploma in mechanical or
electrical engineering. This is of course completely inadequate, as
these leaders in one of the most cost intensive industries in the
world need to be able to manage the process of failure properly.
There is presently a very commendable worldwide drive to improve
the education of maintenance personnel. This process is being led
by a handful of maintenance academics from all partsof the world.
Many of them (including the author) are members of the
International Foundation for Research in Maintenance (IFRIM).
As a consequence of this newfound importance regarding the
education of maintenance professionals, the theory of maintenance
needs to be formalized, such that it can be presented in
well-structured maintenance courses. The objective of this book is
thus to provide a proper theoretical and practical foundation for
the practice of maintenance in the typical industrial organization
of our day. A number of such organizations have responded by
providing each of their maintenance professionals with a copy of
this book as reference work, while it is also used as prescribed
work at a number of tertiary institutions as basis of their
maintenance studies.
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