Written for anyone in a leadership position in maintenance, storeroom or production, this unique book will also be found useful by vendors to the maintenance departments, including maintenance contractors, parts vendors, and various kinds of service providers. As a practical book, Lean Maintenance will take the reader on a journey from uncovering waste, designing projects to address the waste, selling the projects to management and delivering the projects. Every area in maintenance is covered, including your TPM effort, storeroom, PM tasking, work orders and computer systems. What's more, the user will be able to immediately use this book to start the process of saving money, energy, or time within just one hour!

OVERVIEW Planning a shutdown? Lower your costs by reading and applying this unique reference! Originally designed as an intensive course and then honed over several years, Managing Maintenance Shutdowns and Outages organizes the details of a maintenance shutdown into a manageable form by introducing all the steps needed for a successful shutdown or outage. It includes detailed steps for each phase (initiation, planning, execution, closeout, lessons learned), massive master lists of everything you will need to do for each phase of shutdown, and numerous checklists that can immediately be put to use. Loaded with examples from many industries and actual events, this book will be an extremely useful and practical guide for maintenance managers, project engineers, supervisors, maintenance engineers, and planners working in any heavy maintenance environment.
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Well-planned, properly scheduled, and effectively communicated jobs accomplish more work, more efficiently, and at a lower cost. Maintenance Planning, Scheduling and Coordination focuses on and deals specifically with the preparatory tasks that lead to effective utilization and application of maintenance resources. It is a vital training document for planners, an educational document for those to whom planners are responsible, and a valuable guide for those who interface with the planning and scheduling function and are dependent upon the many contributions of planning and scheduling operational excellence.
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Beginning with the 20 steps that are necessary to achieve world class maintenance, this book investigates how to compare an organization to industry standards. Both preventive and predictive maintenance are examined in depth. Topics unique to Managing Factory Maintenance are a self-evaluation clinic and a section on time management. Introduction Glossary What is the Context for Managing Maintenance? Evaluating Current Maintenance Practices Maintenance Processes Maintenance Process Aids Maintenance Strategies: Approaches to Deterioration Maintenance Interfaces: Where Does Maintenance Fit In? Personal and Personnel Development
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A culmination of 15 years of research, teaching, and consulting, this book shares the best practices, mistakes, victories, and essential steps for success which the author has gleaned from working with countless organizations. Unlike other books that only focus on the engineering issues (task lists) or management issues (CMMS), this in-depth resource is the first to give true emphasize to the four aspects of success in preventive maintenance systems--engineering, management, economic, and psychological -- thereby enabling readers to have a balanced view and understanding of what is happening in their organizations.
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The book offers a complete survey of the field, a review of maintenance management, a manual for cost reduction, a primer for the stock room, and a training regime for new supervisors, managers and planners. Book is used to train maintenance professionals at a college level worldwide. Sections include: Patterns in maintenance and how to identify the patterns in your firm. Based on the pattern certain strategies that make sense and other strategies that don't. Strategies include PM, PdM, RCM, TPM, outsourcing, quality, others. How to tell the difference. For each strategy to work and fulfill it's potential it has to be supported. The third section goes over the major support systems such as CMMS, training, planning.
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Similar in purpose to other successful Internet guides, this is a unique guide to using the Internet for maintenance managers and all managers concerned about or affected by the maintenance of assets. The material is organized into 11 brief, accessible chapters and has been written in a style and indexed in a way that makes it easy for readers to quickly locate the information they need. This book covers all areas of the Internet that are essential in running a successful maintenance department. The Internet Guide for Maintenance Management has sections for both experienced surfers and neophytes.
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A key reference that explains the foundations of successful plant management and maintenance planning, this book shows how to implement preventive and predictive maintenance strategies—while avoiding the problems and downtime that come with repairing equipment only when it fails. Managing Maintenance Planning & Scheduling shows readers how to determine the level of maintenance required to achieve an optimal standard of equipment readiness.

Rarely addressed, efficient Spare Parts management is essential to a well-run facility. Featuring training methods, examples, and easy-to-follow charts and graphs, this practical handbook provides detailed guidance on running a cost-effective storeroom and establishing an organized materials tracking system in any plant.

Focusing on how to successfully execute a maintenance plan during a temporary halt in production, this essential guide shows plant managers how to orchestrate the efforts of hundreds of workers and their support equipment while minimizing downtime and costs during a shutdown, turnaround, or outage. It covers such vital topics as identifying needed work, defining the project’s scope, planning and scheduling, executing the shutdown, and writing reports.