Overview
In today's manufacturing environment, the integration of commercial, production, maintenance, and engineering functions is a common and crucial goal. In this timely volume, Richard G. Lamb presents a new standard within the enterprise and plant design management. Lamb shows readers how to advance the plant's role in enterprise business performance and leadership by most cost effectively achieving the mechanical availability necessary to perform in the face of current events, business cycles, and industry trends. Performance is from the designed and managed reliability and maintainability of its equipment.
Synopsis
In today's manufacturing environment, the integration of commercial, production, maintenance, and engineering functions is a common and crucial goal. In this timely volume, Richard G. Lamb presents a new standard within the enterprise and plant design management. Lamb shows readers how to advance the plant's role in enterprise business performance and leadership by most cost effectively achieving the mechanical availability necessary to perform in the face of current events, business cycles, and industry trends. Performance is from the designed and managed reliability and maintainability of its equipment.
Booknews
Presents a framework, in the form of a project plan flowchart, for advancing the manufacturing plant's role in enterprise business performance using mechanical availability in a cost-effective manner. Offers definitions of availability engineering and performance, and details design phases, developing models of profit-effective availability performance, maintenance procedures, determination of resources levels, the construction and startup phase, and the commercial operations phase. Includes chapters summaries. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)