Peters Reliable Maintenance Planning, Estimating, and Scheduling

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-12-398291-9
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 520 Seiten

Written specifically for the oil and gas industry, Reliable Maintenance Planning, Estimating, and Scheduling provides maintenance managers and engineers with the tools and techniques to create a manageable maintenance program that will save money and prevent costly facility shutdowns. The ABCs of work identification, planning, prioritization, scheduling, and execution are explained. The objective is to provide the capacity to identify, select and apply maintenance interventions that assure an effective maintenance management, while maximizing equipment performance, value creation and opportune and effective decision making. The book provides a pre- and post- self-assessment that will allow for measure competency improvement. Maintenance Managers and Engineers receive an expert guide for developing detailed actions including repairs, alterations, and preventative maintenance. - The nuts and bolts of the planning, estimating, and scheduling process for oil and gas facilities - Step-by-step maintenance guide will provide long-term, results-based operational services - Case studies based on the oil and gas industry

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peters, Ralph

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Words, Meanings, and Messages: Theory and Experiments in Psycholinguistics;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;8
5;PREFACE;6
6;PART I: INTRODUCTION;10
6.1;Text;12
7;PART II: SCOPE AND PERSPECTIVES OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC INQUIRIES;16
7.1;Chapter 1. Studies of Languages within a General Science of Signs;18
7.1.1;1.1 CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF SIGN PROCESSES;18
7.1.2;1.2. SYNTACTIC, SEMANTIC, AND PRAGMATIC ASPECTS OF AN ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE;20
7.1.3;1.3. IN SEARCH OF RULES OF NATURAL LANGUAGES;30
7.1.4;1.4. SOME CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL INQUIRIES;36
7.1.5;1.5. SUMMARY;43
7.2;Chapter 2. In Search of Psychological Design Features of Natural Languages;45
7.2.1;2.1. A MACROANALYSIS;45
7.2.2;2.2. THE LINGUISTIC MEDIUM;74
8;PART III: WORDS AND WORD MEANINGS;104
8.1;Chapter 1. The Word as a Stimulus and Response Variable;106
8.1.1;1.1 PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE FOR EFFERENT MECHANISMS IN WORD PERCEPTION;106
8.1.2;1.2. A THEORETICAL MODEL AND SOME IMPLICATIONS;109
8.1.3;1.3. SUMMARY;116
8.2;Chapter 2. Word Meanings;117
8.2.1;2.1. MEANING PATTERNS: TEMPORAL SEGMENTATION AND DIFFERENT PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPONENTS;117
8.2.2;2.2. REFERENCE AND REPRESENTATION;121
8.2.3;2.3. ASSOCIATIVE WORD MEANING;136
8.2.4;2.4. EMOTIVE MEANING;150
8.2.5;2.5. INTERDEPENDENCE AMONG MEANING COMPONENTS;170
9;PART IV: PREDICATION: INQUIRIES INTO LINGUISTICALLY MEDIATED MESSAGES;192
9.1;Chapter 1. Word Meanings and Nonlinguistic Factors in Message Transmission;194
9.1.1;1.1. DEICTIC ANCHORAGE OF UTTERANCES;194
9.1.2;1.2. CASES OF QUASI-PREDICATION;197
9.1.3;1.3. CONTRIBUTION OF LINGUISTIC AND NONLINGUISTIC FACTORS: AN ATTEMPT AT A SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS;200
9.1.4;1.4. CONVERSATION SETTINGS AND STYLES OF COMMUNICATION;203
9.1.5;1.5. SUMMARY;206
9.2;Chapter 2. Different Psychological Approaches to Syntactic Processes;207
9.2.1;2.1. WORD COMBINATIONS, CONDITIONING, AND TEMPORARY MODIFICATION OF WORD MEANINGS;207
9.2.2;2.2. ABSTRACT SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES AND POTENTIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL MANIFESTATIONS;215
9.2.3;2.3. INQUIRIES INTO CODING STATIONS AND CODING OPERATIONS;227
9.2.4;2.4. ATTEMPTS AT INTEGRATION OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES;234
9.3;Chapter 3. Studies of Children's Grammar;251
9.3.1;3.1. SOME GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION;251
9.3.2;3.2. PERCEPTUAL LEARNING VERSUS EMERGENCE OF SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES;254
9.3.3;3.3. ACQUISITION OF GRAMMAR AND THE LEARNING OF WORD MEANINGS;259
9.3.4;3.4. SUMMARY;264
9.4;Chapter 4. Psychological Inquiries into Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects of Utterances;266
9.4.1;4.1. WORD MEANINGS, MESSAGE TRANSMISSION, AND SOCIAL INFLUENCE;266
9.4.2;4.2. LINGUISTIC FORM AND EFFICIENCY OF MESSAGE TRANSMISSION;288
10;PART V: EPILOGUE;310
10.1;Text;312
11;BIBLIOGRAPHY;316
12;AUTHOR INDEX;328
13;SUBJECT INDEX;332