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Maintenance Engineering Handbook

This “Maintenance Engineering Handbook” is written, almost exclusively, by those people who have had to face the acute never-ending problems of equipment failures, repairs, and upkeep, day by day, hour by hour, midnight shift by midnight shift. They understand better than most the extraordinary demands that every maintenance manager, planner, and craftsperson must face and overcome to meet the everchanging maintenance requirements of today’s plant. It is the function of “Maintenance Engineering Handbook” to pass along invention, ingenuity, and a large dose of pure basic science to you, the user. This then is your key, your guide, and your chief support in the tempestuous battle of Maintenance in the days and years ahead. Lindley R. Higgins, as editor-in-chief of the first five editions of this handbook, established a standard for excellence that we have attempted to maintain in this seventh edition. Through the excellent help of maintenance professionals, we have updated those sections that were in the earlier editions and have added new topics that we believe will help you survive in the battle against excessive downtime, high maintenance costs, and the myriad other problems that

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