Maintenance and spare parts management/ Prof. P. Gopalakrishnan and Prof. A.K. Banerji

Includes bibliography and index

Maintenance management perspective: problems and challenges -- Maintenance objectives and functions -- Maintenance organisation -- Maintenance systems -- Design of maintenance systems -- Predictive maintenance or condition-based maintenance -- Non-destructive testing and diagnostic instruments -- Total planned maintenance system and documentation -- maintenance turnaround and network analysis -- Inspection and lubrication -- Calibration and quality -- maintenance training and incentives -- Safety management -- Computers in maintenance and maintenance budget -- Productivity -- Activity sampling and work measurement -- Energy saving through planned maintenance -- Facilities Investment Decisions (FID) and life cycle costing -- Evaluation of maintenance management -- Indian spares management scenario -- Survey on spares practices -- Cost reduction approach to spares -- MUSIC-3D view of spares -- Reliability and quality of spares -- Spare parts procurement -- Warehousing and logistics management -- Spare parts marketing ad pricing -- After sales service -- Multiechelon spares inventory -- management of obsolete spares -- Inventory control of spare parts -- Maintenance spare parts -- Simulation for spares planning -- Insurance spare parts -- Rotable and overhauling spares -- Reconditioning of equipments and spares -- Information system for spare parts -- Organisation and evaluation of spares function -- Ganapathy Ram Port Trust: a case study

This well-received text, designed for the students of MBA, BTech (Mechanical Engineering and Industrial and Production Engineering) and MTech (Industrial Engineering and Management), has been revised and reorganized in its second edition. The book, divided into six sections, deals with the concepts of core maintenance and related auxiliary functions, core spares issues, related auxiliary spares functions, caselets and policy cases. This research-based study attempts to impart a comprehensive knowledge of maintenance and spare parts management, particularly in the Indian context. Illustrations, tables, caselets, cases and presentation of several topics in A-Z points add pedagogic value to the text.