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News Release from: ISA:Instrumentation Systems and Automation Society | Subject: Joseph D Patton book
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 June 2005
New edition of 'Maintenance Management'
classic
ISA recently announced the release of a new edition of the maintenance management classic textbook "Maintainability and Maintenance Management, 4th Edition" by Joseph D Patton
ISA recently announced the release of "Maintainability and Maintenance Management, 4th Edition" by Joseph D Patton, Jr "Written by an industry expert, the book speaks to a wide variety of maintenance issues and solutions
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 8 Aug 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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It is another example of ISA's commitment to help the market solve difficult problems," noted T.S.
"Chip" Lee, ISA Director, Publishing Services.
This book emphasizes the concepts of preventive, predictive, and reliability-based total maintenance, as well as total quality management and continuous improvement.
"Maintainability and Maintenance Management, 4th Edition", a newly revised, comprehensive version of the earlier classic, provides an in-depth look at new technological advances and the cost advantages of investing in maintainability.
Topics covered in this edition include maintainability programme planning and management; system engineering of reliability, availability, and maintainability; configuration management; and maintainability process.
The text serves as a flexible reference for engineers, product planners, designers, maintainability specialists, maintenance managers, service analysts, programme managers, system engineers, quality staff, and others concerned with the practice of maintainability and maintenance.
ISA anticipates that use of this book will extend to workshops in commerce, government, and industry, as well as in college and university courses.
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