Addresses the main systems necessary for the successful operation of a maintenance organization, such as performance control, work control and documentation. This work shows how they can be modelled, their function and operating principles, and the main problems encountered in operation.

Strategic Maintenance Planning deals with the concepts, principles and techniques of preventive maintenance, and shows how the complexity of maintenance strategic planning can be resolved by a systematic 'Top-Down-Bottom-Up' approach. It explains how to establish objectives for physical assets and maintenance resources, and how to formulate an appropriate life plan for plant. It then shows how to use the life plans to formulate a preventive maintenance schedule for the plant as a whole, along...