The latest tested and proven strategies to maintain businessresiliency and sustainability for our ever-growing global digitaleconomyHere is a comprehensive study of the fundamentals of missioncritical systems, which are designed to maintain ultra-highreliability, availability, and resiliency of electrical,mechanical, and digital systems and eliminate costly downtime.Readers learn all the skills needed to design, fine tune, operate,and maintain mission critical equipment and systems. Practical infocus, the text helps readers configure and customize their designsto correspond to their organizations' unique needs and risktolerance. Specific strategies are provided to deal with a widerange of contingencies from power failures to human error to fire.In addition, the author highlights measures that are mandated bypolicy and regulation.The author of this text has worked in mission critical facilitiesengineering for more than twenty years, serving clients in banking,defense, utilities, energy, and education environments. Hisrecommendations for maintaining essential operations are based onfirsthand experience of what works and what does not.Most chapters in this text concentrate on an individual componentof the mission critical system, including standby generators,automatic transfer switches, uninterruptible power supplies, andfuel, fire, and battery systems. For each component, the authorsets forth applications, available models, design choices, standardoperating procedures, emergency action plans, maintenanceprocedures, and applicable codes and standards. Extensive use ofphotographs and diagrams illustrates how individual components andintegrated systems work.With the rapid growth of e-commerce and 24/7 business operations,mission critical systems have moved to the forefront of concernsamong both private and public operations. Facilities engineers,senior administrators, and business continuity professionalsinvolved in information technology and data center design shouldconsult this text regularly to ensure they have done everythingthey can to protect and sustain their operations to reduce humanerror, equipment failures, and other critical events. Adapted frommaterial the author has used in academic and professional trainingprograms, this guide is also an ideal desktop reference andtextbook.
