The efficient functioning of modern society depends on the smooth operation of many complex systems including transport and communication systems, manufacturing and processing plants, utilities, hospitals and banks. Such systems are unreliable because they degrade with age and/or usage and fail when no longer capable of delivering the products/services. The consequences of a failed complex system can be dramatic (e.g. economic losses). These failures can be controlled by preventive maintenance actions. Advances in the understanding of the physics of failure, and in the technologies used to combat this failure have resulted in a vast literature on this topic. This book is the first to integrate this literature with chapters on a particular aspect of maintenance written by internationally-renowned researchers and practitioners. This book will interest maintenance engineers and managers in industry as well as researchers andgraduate students in maintenance, industrial engineering and applied mathematics. No other book provides such depth and coverage on the topic of maintenance of unreliable systems INDICE: From the contents An Overview.- Maintenance: An Evolutionary Perspective.- New Technologies for Maintenance.- Reliability Centred Maintenance.- Condition-based Maintenance Modelling.- Maintenance Based on Limited Data.- Reliability Prediction and Accelerated Testing.- Preventive Maintenance Models for Complex Systems.- Artificial Intelligence in Maintenance.- Maintenance of Repairable Systems.- Optimal Maintenance of Multi-component Systems: a Review.-Replacement of Capital Equipment.- Maintenance and Production: a Review of Planning Models.
- ISBN: 978-1-84800-010-0
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 685
- Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés