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| Preface | |
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| Definition and Value of Availability Performance | |
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| Definition and Goals of Availability | |
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| Engineering and Management | |
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| Availability as a Core Subsystem of Plant and Business Performance | |
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| Attributes of Availability Performance | |
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| Summary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Financial Ramifications of Availability | |
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| Engineering and Management | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Consequences for Life-Cycle Cash Profiles | |
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| Payout and Discounted Cash-Flow Analysis | |
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| Return on Investment Analysis | |
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| The Break-Even Point and Operating Leverage Analysis | |
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| Summary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The Conceptual Design Phase | |
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| Availability Engineering and Management and the Conceptual Design Phase | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Analyze Owner Needs | |
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| Establish Management Policies for Availability | |
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| Engineering and Management | |
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| Formulate Plant Operational Requirements | |
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| Formulate, Evaluate, and Select from Alternate Production Processes | |
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| Develop the Plant Conceptual Design | |
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| Develop the Availability Concept | |
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| Develop the Maintenance Operation Concept | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Preparation for Project Execution | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Challenges of a New Discipline | |
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| Summary of Requirements | |
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| Develop Availability Requirements for Contractor Screening, Selection, and Contract Documents | |
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| Assure Planning for Availability Tasks, Costs, Time, and Resources | |
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| Prepare to Monitor and Track Availability Engineering | |
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| Summary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Basic Design Phase | |
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| Foundations to Maintain Integrity of the Availability Scheme | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Develop Availability-Centered Practices Control Documents | |
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| Develop Life-Cycle Improvement, Change and Data Management Functions and Systems | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Development of the Plant as a System of Availability Parameters | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Identify, Gather, and Analyze Data for Availability Design | |
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| Develop Plant Logic Diagrams | |
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| Allocate Availability Parameters to Plant Logic Diagrams | |
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| The Production Process and Availability Parameters Compared | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Develop Models to Design Profit-Effective Availability Performance | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Develop the Plant Availability Model | |
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| Develop the Plant Financial Model | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Analysis of Failures and Development of Maintenance Strategy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Availability-Centered Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis | |
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| Maintenance Logic-Tree Analysis | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Analysis and Optimization of Plant Availability Performance | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Evaluate and Optimize Plant Availability Performance | |
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| Assess Plant Layout for Maintainability | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Traditional Plant Design during the Basic Design Phase | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Refine the Conceptual Design and Related Diagrams and Data | |
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| Determine and Develop the Process Control Strategy | |
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| Design the Instrumentation System | |
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| Develop Performance Specifications, and Select and Size Equipment | |
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| Size Lines | |
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| Determine Materials of Construction and Corrosion Allowances | |
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| Diagram, Analyze, and Determine Utility Needs | |
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| Develop the Plant Layout | |
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| Design Preliminary Piping Layout | |
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| Conduct Preliminary Hazard Evaluation | |
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| Identify and Begin Procurement of Long-Lead-Time Delivery Items | |
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| Develop Equipment Specifications | |
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| Develop Bulk Material Specifications | |
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| Final Comments for Availability Engineering and Management in the Basic Design Phase | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The Detailed Design Phase | |
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| Development of Maintenance Tasks and Procedures | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Maintenance Task Analysis | |
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| Needs Analysis and Design of Maintenance Instructions, Procedures, and Manuals | |
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| Evaluate Equipment for Maintainability from Human Factors Perspective | |
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| Bibiliography | |
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| Determination of Resource Levels for Operational Availability | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Determine the Human and Material Resources for Maintenance Operations | |
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| Detailed Design of | |