Maintenance Engineering and Management

Maintenance Engineering and Management covers the fields of industrialmaintenance technology, engineering and management and their relatedtheoretical background and practical applications. In respect of technical andengineering principles, the book focuses on the economic, organisational,industrial engineering, ICT and managerial aspects of the industrial maintenancefunction. With that in mind, the book is intended for university and collegeengineering students as well as for engineers and managers in industry.Klaas Smit served for 10 years as a Technical Officer with the Royal NetherlandsAir Force and spent 5 years at Unilever's Engineering Division as SeniorMaintenance Engineering Manager. Subsequently, until he acquired currentemeritus status in 2006, he was appointed as full professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, where he held the chair of Aerospace Industrial Engineering and Management within the Faulty of Aerospace Engineering and the chair of Maintenance Engineering and Management at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.