Maintenance Excellence: Optimizing Equipment Life Cycle Decisions, Vol. 135 Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Contributors
1	Introduction	1
2	Maintenance Management Methodologies	11
3	Measurement in Maintenance Management	37
4	Data Acquisition	95
5	Materials Management Optimization	125
6	Assessing and Managing Risk	147
7	Reliability by Design: Reliability-Centered Maintenance	183
8	Reliability by Operator: Total Productive Maintenance	221
9	Reliability Management and Maintenance Optimization: Basic Statistics and Economics	239
10	Maintenance Optimization Models	269
11	Optimizing Maintenance and Replacement Decisions	289
12	Optimizing Condition-Based Maintenance	323
13	Achieving Maintenance Excellence	367
App. 1	Mean Time to Failure	379
App. 2	Median Ranks	381
App. 3	Censored Data	385
App. 4	The Three-Parameter Weibull Function	387
App. 5	Confidence Intervals	391
App. 6	Estimating (Fitting) the Distribution	395
App. 7	Kolmogorov-Smirnov Goodness-of-Fit Test	397
App. 8	Present Value	401
App. 9	Cost of Capital Required for Economic-Life Calculations	407
App. 10	Optimal Number of Workshop Machines to Meet a Fluctuating Workload	413
App. 11	Optimal Size of a Maintenance Workforce to Meet a Fluctuating Workload, Taking into Account Subcontracting Opportunities	415
App. 12	Fuzzy Logic	421
App. 13	Neural Nets	423
App. 14	Optimal Interval Between Preventive Replacements of Equipment Subject to Breakdown	429
App. 15	Optimal Preventive Replacement Age of Equipment Subject to Breakdown	433
App. 16	Optimal Preventive Replacement Age of Equipment Subject to Breakdown, Taking into Account Time Required to Effect Failure and Preventive Replacements	437
App. 17	Optimal Replacement Interval for Capital Equipment: Minimization of Total Cost	441
App. 18	The Economic-Life Model Used in PERDEC	445
App. 19	Economic Life of Passenger Buses	447
App. 20	Optimal Replacement Age of an Asset, Taking into Account Tax Considerations	455
App. 21	Optimal Replacement Policy for Capital Equipment, Taking into Account Technological Improvement - Infinite Planning Horizon	457
App. 22	Optimal Replacement Policy for Capital Equipment, Taking into Account Technological Improvement - Finite Planning Horizon	461
App. 23	Optimal Inspection Frequency: Minimization of Downtime	465
App. 24	Maintenance Strategic Assessment (MSA) Questionnaire	467
	Index	479