Complex System Maintenance Handbook

The efficient functioning of modern society depends on the smooth operation of many complex systems which provide products and services. These include transport systems, communication systems, utilities, manufacturing plants, processing plants, hospitals

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Series Editor Professor Hoang Pham Department of Industrial Engineering Rutgers The State University of New Jersey 96 Frelinghuysen Road Piscataway, NJ 08854-8018 USA

Other titles in this series The Universal Generating Function in Reliability Analysis and Optimization Gregory Levitin Warranty Management and Product Manufacture D.N.P Murthy and Wallace R. Blischke Maintenance Theory of Reliability Toshio Nakagawa System Software Reliability Hoang Pham Reliability and Optimal Maintenance Hongzhou Wang and Hoang Pham Applied Reliability and Quality B.S. Dhillon Shock and Damage Models in Reliability Theory Toshio Nakagawa Risk Management Terje Aven and Jan Erik Vinnem Satisfying Safety Goals by Probabilistic Risk Assessment Hiromitsu Kumamoto Offshore Risk Assessment (2nd Edition) Jan Erik Vinnem The Maintenance Management Framework Adolfo Crespo Márquez Human Reliability and Error in Transportation Systems B.S. Dhillon

Khairy A.H. Kobbacy • D.N. Prabhakar Murthy Editors

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Khairy A.H. Kobbacy, PhD Management and Management Sciences Research Institute University of Salford Salford, Greater Manchester M5 4WT UK

D.N. Prabhakar Murthy, PhD Division of Mechanical Engineering The University of Queensland Brisbane 4072 Australia

ISBN 978-1-84800-010-0

e-ISBN 978-1-84800-011-7

DOI 10.1007/978-1-84800-011-7 Springer Series in Reliability Engineering series ISSN 1614-7839 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A Complex system maintenance handbook. - (Springer series in reliability engineering) 1. Maintenance 2. Reliability (Eningeering) 3. Maintenance - Management I. Murthy, D. N. P. II. Kobbacy, Khairy A. H. 620'.0046 ISBN-13: 9781848000100 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008923781 © 2008 Springer-Verlag London Limited Watchdog Agent™ is a trademark of the Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS) Center, University of Cincinnati, PO Box 210072, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA. www.imscenter.net Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copy-right Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. The use of registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher makes no representation, express or implied, with regard to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made. Cover design: deblik, Berlin, Germany Printed on acid-free paper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com

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