Maintenance Costs and Life Cycle Cost Analysis (Hardcover)

Chapter 1 The relevance of the maintenance function in asset management

1.1 Purpose of Maintenance Function.

1.2 Reliability versus Maintenance.

1.3 Changing Role of Maintenance in Asset Management.

1.4 Physical Asset Management and Maintenance Cost.

1.5 Focusing on the Bottom Line.

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2.1 Traditional LCC.

2.2 Life-cycle cost analysis as a project follow-up for assets

2.3 Trade-off tools for LCC.

2.4 LCC analysis as maintenance DSS

2.5 Rul as gauge and driver for maintenance expenses and investments.

2.6 Uncertainty in LCC and maintenance cost estimations.

2.7 LCC data acquisition and tracking systems.

2.8 Restriction of maintenance role in operation phase.

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3.1 Asset management and Annual Maintenance Budget.

3.2 Cost of Labor Force: In-House vs Outsourced, Blue vs White Collar.

3.3 Spare Parts Policies for Cost Savings.

3.4 Over-Investments in Maintenance and Avoided Costs.

3.5 CMMS as maintenance cost control tool

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4.1 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Maintenance.

4.2 Maintenance Costs.

4.3 Financial KPIs and Their Relation to Maintenance Costs

4.4 Benchmarking Financial KPIs.

4.5 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Benchmarking, and Best Practices.

4.6 The maturity of maintenance as a roadmap: Outcome of bechmarking.

4.7 Attempts at Standardization from Europe (EN) and USA (ISO).

4.8 Role of Maintenance Cost in a Maintenance Audit

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5.1. Economic Importance of Maintenance.

5.2. Classification of Maintenance Costs.

5.3. Costs after Downtime.

5.4 Intangible Aspects of Maintenance Costs and Uncertainty.

5.5 Combining Tangible and Intangible Maintenance Costs and Benefits.

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6.1. New Maintenance Service Providers.

6.2. Impact of Business and Technological Environment on Maintenance Costs.

6.3. Planned Obsolescence and the End of Traditional Maintenance.

6.4. Outsourcing Maintenance: New frameworks

6.5. Warranty Management: Extensions and Claims.

6.6. Insurance: Economic Responsibility of Third Parties.

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7.1. Maintenance Costs Across the Sectors.

7.2. Transportation Assets: Rolling stock case study 1.

7.3. Transportation Assets: Rolling stock case study 2.

7.4. Infrastructure: Railway Infrastructure

7.5. Manufacturing Assets.

7.6. Military Equipment.

7.7. Aviation.

7.8. Facilities.

7.9. Energy.

7.10. Mining.

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