100 Years of Maintenance & Reliability: Practical Lessons from Three Lifetimes at Process Plants: Vee Narayan, Jim Wardhaugh, Mahen Das

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• Provides a logical organization with chapters grouped into six broad headings, enabling readers to choose the order in which they wish to absorb the lessons, which are based on the Shewhart-Deming Continuous Improvement cycle.
• In addition to the Plan-Schedule-Execute-Analyze elements, the authors have added Leadership and People to complete the suite.
• Each chapter has broadly similar sections, beginning with a Background to the events, going on to describe the key elements of the approach, and ending with Lessons and Principles.
• Underlying theories, philosophies or even detailed descriptions of methods are stripped out of the main chapters and described in Appendices, so that only those readers who wish to delve into details may do so.
• Contains a Book Summary which draws all the principles and lessons together, and gives references to the relevant chapters.
• Copiously illustrated, with charts, diagrams and tables which relate closely to the text.

About the Author
V. Narayan has a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Pune in India. He retired from a major multinational Oil & Gas group of companies in 2002, after a distinguished career in maintenance and project engineering. With a broad range of work in industries, including e.g., the upstream and downstream Oil and Gas Industry sectors to the Automobile, Light Engineering and Pharmaceutical Industries, in several countries and cultures, including India, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, he has deep and broad experience in the field. As a consultant or trainer to companies in many countries in the Middle-East, Far-East, Africa and Europe he has seen and experienced cultural differences. He managed the Oil & Gas company’s Centre of Excellence in Maintenance and Reliability Engineering and represented it in a Joint Industry Project (OREDA) for the collection of reliability data.

Jim Wardhaugh graduated from the University of Liverpool and is a Chartered Engineer. In a 30 year career in a major multinational Oil & Gas group of companies he demonstrated success in many different roles (projects, construction, maintenance, technical, inspection, warehousing, transport, quality, and training) in a number of different countries. Within this Oil & Gas company’s Technical Head Office he guided refineries worldwide on best maintenance practices and on “Computerized Management and Information Systems”. He was a founder member of their consultancy group responsible for reliability improvements in the refineries. He now provides consultancy services targeting performance improvement, particularly in the fields of asset management, operations, and maintenance.

Mahen Das is a chartered mechanical engineer, retired from a major multinational Oil & Gas group of companies in 2002 after 42 years of work in optimization of maintenance and operational reliability of petroleum refineries and gas plants. His learning and experience has been drawn from hands-on work, at all levels of asset management, at 40 sites in 22 countries. After working for 32 years in the “field”, during the last 10 years of his career were spent in transferring knowledge to refineries, gas plants and production facilities in the group of companies as well as to third party clients in the form of consultancy services. During this period he helped establish the consultancy group responsible for reliability improvements in the refineries. As a leader of this team, Mahen visited and reviewed the business processes of more than 30 operating plants, and helped them make significant improvements in their maintenance and reliability performance.

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