Preventive Maintenance, 3rd Edition

J.D. Patton, Jr.
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978-1-55617-875-7

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This third edition of a best-selling classic shows how the investment in a preventive maintenance program repays a company in longer equipment life, smoother operation, planning, and scheduling. It includes information on computerized PM systems, enhanced techniques, and insights into preventive maintenance. The latest technology has improved equipment quality, reliability and dependability by fault-tolerance, redundant components, self-adjustments, and replacement of hydraulic and mechanical components by more reliable electronic and optical operations. Many components, however, still wear out, corrode, become punctured, vibrate excessively, become overheated by friction or dirt, or can even be damaged by humans. Fortunately, modern sensors and computers for condition monitoring and detection enable equipment to "call home" to report they need PM before they fail. The preventive maintenance advantage is that you will pay less now to do planned work when production is not pushing versus very expensive emergency repairs that may be required under disruptive conditions causing production to halt and loss of revenue. Good PM saves money over a product’s life cycle. The book addresses major types of maintenance; advantages and disadvantages of PM; designing a PM program; economics of PM; nondestructive testing; scheduling; metrics; data issues; and much more.

Format: Softbound Book
Length: 186 pages
Shipping Weight: .63 lb(s)
Copyright: 2004
Publisher: ISA

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Spotlight Reviews

Design and Planning - May 05, 2008
Reviewer: Victor Aparicio
The preventive maintenance is a topic that at the moment has an important development in the industry in general. Joseph D. Patton brings us a book that allows us to understand, design and plan a program of preventive maintenance. The book has three parts: 1) an introduction to the concepts of the maintenance; 2) designing a program of PM; and 3) planning a program of PM via computerized maintenance system. This guide has helped develop the maintenance plan in instrumentation for the Plant of Gas Carrasco of the Oil Company CHACO in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Mr. Patton's book provides an excellent source of information and consults for any engineer that is working, planning or designing a program of preventive maintenance.