Maintenance engineering

Maintenance Engineering is the discipline and profession of applying engineering concepts for the optimization of equipment, procedures, and departmental budgets to achieve better maintainability, reliability, and availability of equipment. Maintenance, and hence maintenance engineering, is increasing in importance due to rising amounts of equipment, systems, machineries and infrastructure. Since the Industrial Revolution, devices, equipment, machinery and structures have grown increasingly complex, requiring a host of personnel, vocations and related systems needed to maintain them. Prior to 2006, the United States spent approximately US$300 billion annually on plant maintenance and operations alone. Maintenance is to ensure a unit is fit for purpose, with maximum availability at minimum costs. A person practicing maintenance engineering is known as a maintenance engineer.

Maintenance Engineering is the discipline and profession of applying engineering concepts for the optimization of equipment, procedures, and departmental budgets to achieve better maintainability, reliability, and availability of equipment. Maintenance, and hence maintenance engineering, is increasing in importance due to rising amounts of equipment, systems, machineries and infrastructure. Since the Industrial Revolution, devices, equipment, machinery and structures have grown increasingly complex, requiring a host of personnel, vocations and related systems needed to maintain them. Prior to 2006, the United States spent approximately US$300 billion annually on plant maintenance and operations alone. Maintenance is to ensure a unit is fit for purpose, with maximum availability at minimum costs. A person practicing maintenance engineering is known as a maintenance engineer. ==See also== Aircraft maintenance engineering Asset management Auto mechanic Civil engineer Computerized maintenance management system Computer repair technician Electrician Electrical Technologist Industrial Engineering Marine fuel management Mechanic Millwright (machinery maintenance) Maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) Reliability engineering Preventive maintenance Product lifecycle management Stationary engineer Total productive maintenance (TPM) Six Sigma for maintenance Associations INFORMS Institute of Industrial Engineers ==References== School of Applied Technical Sciences - Maintenance Engineering

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