The book presents recent advances in the technology of installation, commissioning, maintenance, replacement, and removal of plant machinery and equipment, feedback on operation and design, and related subjects and practices. Keywords: Fibre Prestressing, Hierarchical Robotic System, Environmental Pollution, Casting Processes, EU and US Legal Frameworks, Machine Learning Models, Forecasting for Supply Chain Applications, Bio-inspired Algorithms, Resistance to the Effects of Explosions, Armor Technologies, Control of Aerial Drones, Concentrated Energy Beams.

Vols. for -1973 include name and subject indexes.

Includes the institute's Proceedings.

Monograph on maintenance management in manufacturing industry in the UK and USA - discusses the relationship between maintenance, production and design, and the influence of automation, and covers planning, cost control, analytical techniques such as simulation and network analysis, the concept of terotechnology (resource management), etc. Bibliography pp. 157 to 163, diagrams and statistical tables.