PLANT MAINTENANCE AND ASSET MANAGEMENT

A mineral processing plant begins to wear from the moment it enters service. Liners erode, pumps lose efficiency, bearings deteriorate, instruments drift and critical equipment becomes increasingly vulnerable to failure.

The challenge is not simply to repair equipment when it breaks. It is to manage reliability, cost, risk and asset life in a disciplined and economically sound way.

Plant Maintenance and Asset Management in Mineral Processing provides a practical framework for doing exactly that. It brings together maintenance strategy, reliability engineering, condition monitoring, work management and life-cycle economics in one accessible volume.

Inside, readers will find practical guidance on:

• Reactive, preventive, predictive and proactive maintenance
• Reliability, availability and maintainability
• Weibull analysis, FMEA, criticality and root-cause analysis
• Vibration, lubrication, thermography and wear monitoring
• CMMS, planning, scheduling, shutdowns and spares management
• Equipment-specific maintenance in mineral processing plants
• Repair-versus-replace decisions and asset-renewal planning
• Maintenance KPIs, competency and reliability culture

Worked examples and a running mineral-processing case study connect the theory to realistic plant decisions.

Written for metallurgists, plant engineers, reliability professionals, maintenance managers and supervisors, this book is a practical guide to keeping plants safer, more reliable and economically sustainable throughout their operating life.

Maintenance is not merely a cost to be reduced. It is a value-creating discipline that protects production, extends asset life and supports better business decisions.