This book is meant for students of mechanical engineering and the maintenance workforce in industries. It gives the fundamental and practical knowledge of the most commonly encountered maintenance engineering problems.Readers are advised to gain m...

This book is meant for students of mechanical engineering and the maintenance workforce in industries. It gives the fundamental and practical knowledge of the most commonly encountered maintenance engineering problems.Readers are advised to gain more and more knowledge by continuously reading available material, bearing in mind the saying that, “half knowledge is more dangerous than no knowledge”, more so in maintenance engineering.There are five units in this book.Unit 1 has the outline of the whole maintenance subject.Unit 2 deals with the economics of inventory of spares and the preparation of estimates.Unit 3 emphasizes Predictive maintenance and VibrationsUnit 4 discusses an important topic of maintenance i.e. lubrication.Unit 5 deals with some of the common machinery repairs and the intricacies involved, including the most common air compressor and centrifugal pump repairs.The book is prepared mainly from the exam point of view for students and as a general reference book. Industries and workshops may also find this book useful in day-to-day maintenance work of all machines.