Overview

The Maintenance volume is key to the Practical Guides Series and certainly a key to the profitability of companies through ensuring that the control system is maintained so the plant can produce its products. This volume includes some history and speculates about future advances of instrumentation and control (I&C) system maintenance; it also covers some of the fundamental principles, vocabulary, symbolism, standards, and safety. It suggests the necessary basic knowledge required of I&C technicians and the interaction of maintenance in the retrofitting and start-up of control systems.