Failure mapping : a new and powerful tool for improving reliability and maintenance
"This book provides a clear and easy-to-read description of Failure Mapping, a powerful new tool for improving reliability and maintenance. For the first time all the techniques of Failure Mapping have been tied together into a single, comprehensive process. The author has included many examples that demonstrate how to enhance both your own effectiveness at work and the overall reliability of your company's physical assets by having access to Failure Maps that describe past failures accurately and succinctly. You will also find herein all the techniques needed to effectively implement Failure Mapping, including several forms for recording Failure Maps and creating reports. This book is designed for busy people working in all phases and levels of reliability and maintenance: managers, engineers, executives, senior staff, and consultants who often have little time for long and tedious texts or courses that take them away from their work place."--Jacket
xiv, 161 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780831133863, 0831133864
288932836
Patterns and relationships
The path to failure
Examples of failure mapping and their application
Naturally occurring elements that can be enhanced by failure mapping
Structured assessment
Characteristics evaluated during a failure mapping assessment
Assembling a failure mapping process
Conclusion