Asset Management Insights : Phases, Practices, and Value
- Author
- Azevedo, Celso de
- Published
- La Vergne : Industrial Press, Inc., 2019.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (223 pages)
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- Contents
- Cover (Asset Management Insights_Phases, Practices, and Values); Front Matter; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword: The Emergence of a Necessity; Of the Necessity of Developing a Rigorous Asset Management Discipline; A Favorable Climate for the Emergence of a Practice; Preliminary Notes Regarding the Essay's Layout; Preface; The Structural Approach to the Book: The Matrix of Methodological Elements Associated with the Life Cycle Segments of Assets; Acknowledgments; Part I: The Project Phase of Industrial Assets; Chapter 1; Demystifying the Project Phase; 1.1 The Rise of a Praxis, 1.2 Designing: A "Distinct" Activity1.3 Decision-Making in the Preoperational Phase: Atony Comes at a Cost; 1.4 An Opportunity for Improvement in Asset Design; Chapter 2; Reimagining the Procurement Function; 2.1 The Fixation on Cost; 2.2 Outsourcing and Accountability; 2.3 Changing the Terms of the Procurement Function; Chapter 3; FEED, RAMS, and Cost-Effective Availability; 3.1 The Input of Front-End Engineering and Design; 3.2 The Limitations of the RAMS Approach; 3.3 Cost-Effective Availability and Optimization: The FEEDMAN Protocol, 3.4 Key Factors of the Profitable Availability in the Project Phase3.5 FEEDMAN-FEED Aligned with Asset Management; Part II: Building Assets and Preparing Them For Their Life Cycles; Chapter 4; From the Preoperational to the Operational Phase: Construction and Installation; 4.1 Construction and Operations: Back to the Start; 4.2 An Opportune Moment; 4.3 Reliability: The DNA of Industrial Assets; Chapter 5; From the Commissioning of Assets to Their Operational Maintenance; 5.1 Commissioning and Maintenance: Between Two Worlds; 5.2 The Industrial Diapason; Part III: The Operational Life, Chapter 6What Is the Operational Life?; 6.1 Maintenance and Asset Management: A Necessary Partnership; 6.2 Life Cycle and Alignment; 6.3 I Leap One; Chapter 7; Operational Reliability; 7.1 Reliability: "The Rearview Mirror and the Windshield"; 7.2 Demystifying MTBF-Mean Time Between Failures; 7.3 Reliability and Professional Behavior; Chapter 8; Risk and Its Management; 8.1 Monetizing Risks: Stakes and Originality; 8.2 What Type of Management for Risk?; 8.3 Consented Risk Optimization; 8.4 The Language of Risk; 8.5 International Benchmarking: A Bittersweet Experience; Chapter 9, and Operation and Maintenance9.1 Of the Usefulness of Monetizing Risk; 9.2 The Role of Trade-Offs in Asset Management; 9.3 Managing Uncertainty; 9.4 Useful Life and Mature Life; Part IV: The End-of-Life; Chapter 10; Asset Modification and Maintenance; 10.1 Loving Care: The Stakes of Therapeutic Obstinacy; 10.2 End-of-Life Threshold: A New Indicator for Profitable Operations; 10.3 The Stubbornness of Degradation Kinetics; Chapter 11; Asset Replacement and Disposal; 11.1 Extracting Value from Assets: Until When?; 11.2 All Assets Are Mortal; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Figures Index; Index
- ISBN
- 9780831195304
0831195304
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