A comprehensive presentation of modern maintenance engineering concepts and practices that includes major recent developments this book provides a cradle-to-grave strategy for preserving equipment, avoiding the consequences of failure, and ensuring the productive capacity of equipment. It covers key maintenance-engineering topics from management and control, preventative and corrective maintenance to new concepts such as reliability-centered maintenance, human error, quality and safety, and maintainability. The author addresses maintenance mathematics and costing and emphasizes practical applications illustrated by numerous examples.