Engineering resource materials for chemical, process, maintenance and plant engineers
Maintenance Engineering Handbook
Sixth Edition
Lindley R. Higgins, Editor
Providing both sophisticated and simplified solutions to facility maintenance problems for plant engineers, facilities engineers and managers, and maintenance engineers, this fully revised and updated fifth edition discusses every aspect of maintenance engineering from new technical advances to maintaining new machinery. All kinds of facilities are described, including generating plants, refineries, hospitals, schools and universities, and office buildings. The Handbook also includes effective ways to use computers to manage maintenance procedures for machinery, physical plant, and fixed support service.
While the entire handbook has been revised (containing approximately 40 percent new material), special attention is given to lubrication, vibration analysis, instrumentation, industrial chemical cleaning, corrective and predictive maintenance, computerized stores control, and arc and gas welding.
The issues discussed by 55 expert specialists include:
- Operating policies, reports, and staffing procedures
- Establishing costs and controls
- Computer applications
- Maintenance of plant facilities
- Sanitation and housekeeping
- Maintenance of mechanical equipment
- Instruments and vibration
- Maintenance of electrical and service equipment
- Chemical corrosion control and cleaning
The Handbook offers a wealth of practical information, data, procedures, and ideas on every major aspect of maintenance.
1,008 pages with 725 illustrations