“The Maintenance Management Framework” describes and reviews the concept, process and framework of modern maintenance management of complex systems; "The Maintenance Management Framework" will be beneficial for engineers and professionals involved in: maintenance management, maintenance engineering, operations management, quality, etc.

Maintenance Management Definition and Characterization.- On the Definition of Maintenance Management.- Maintenance Management Characterization: Process, Framework and Supporting Pillars.- Basic Concepts for Complex Systems Maintenance.- The Failure Concept.- Failure Models.- The Maintenance Concept.- Basic Maintenance Models.- Developing the Maintenance Management Framework.- A Review of Key Decision Areas in Maintenance Management Modelling.- Definition of Maintenance Objectives and Strategy.- Criticality Analysis for Asset Priority Setting.- Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) for High Impact Weak Points.- A Method to Design the Maintenance Plan.- Models to Deal with Maintenance Capacity Planning.- Models to Deal with Maintenance Activities Planning.- Models to Deal with Maintenance Scheduling Issues.- Overall Maintenance Management Assessment.- Failures Impact on Life Cycle Cost Analysis.- Maintenance Continuous Improvement Through Organizational Efficiency.- The E-maintenance Revolution.

The Maintenance Management Framework describes and reviews the concept, process and framework of modern maintenance management of complex systems; concentrating specifically on modern modelling tools (deterministic and empirical) for maintenance planning and scheduling. It presents a new perspective of maintenance management by: focusing on the course of maintenance actions; presenting a structure that ensures proper support for current maintenance managers; clarifying the functionality that is required from information technology when applied to maintenance and the functions of modern maintenance engineering; and creating a set of practical models for maintenance management planning and scheduling. The discussion of all of these issues is supported through the use of case studies. The Maintenance Management Framework will be beneficial for engineers and professionals involved in: maintenance management, maintenance engineering, operations management, quality, etc. It will also be of interest to graduate students and researchers in this field. Dr Adolfo Crespo Márquez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Management, School of Engineering at the University of Seville. Within the area of maintenance, he has extensively participated in many engineering and consulting projects for numerous companies and for the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education.

From the reviews: "The author has done a good job of complementing the book by including a well-written chapter on e-maintenance thereby providing a complete account of the on-going efforts and innovations in the area of maintenance planning, execution and improvements. In short, the author must be complimented for bringing out a complete book on maintenance management, which will be found useful by the practicing maintenance managers and engineers of all industries and organizations." K.B. Misra, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Performability Engineering