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Maintenance Engineering: Principles, Practices & Management is a comprehensive book for mechanical engineers. The book explains how Plant Maintenance works, and how the deparment goes about protecting the machines from wear. The book explains how maintenance is a large part of industries, and how it relies on certain principles for smooth operation of the plant. It explains how periodic maintenance is important and defines preventive and predictive maintenance. The book helps students understand how to assess downtime, and how to calculate critical engineering factors such as Mean Time Between Failures and Mean Time To Repair. In addition, the book explains concepts such as 5S and explains how it can be used to revolutionize the shop floor and improve the MTTR. The book is an indispensable resource for all Industrial and Mechanical Engineers. About S. K. Srivastava Sunil Kumar Srivastava is an Indian academician with a vast experience in Industrial Engineering.