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The Handbook of Maintenance Management
Joel Levitt

 

 

Price: $63.95

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Industrial Press
Publish Date: 2009
Pages: 451

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A complete, up-to-date, and immensely useful survey of the maintenance field by one of its leading educators.

The goal of this significantly expanded and updated second edition remains unchanged: to provide a succinct, accessible review of all the major areas in the management of the maintenance function. Whatever the topic, the example, whether it is 5S or TPM, or even how to run a storeroom, whenever you need a quick update, you will get it here.

The second edition includes five entirely new chapters, including Dealing with Contracts, 5S, Lean Maintenance, PM Optimization, and Fire Fighting, which all reflect up-to-the-minute concerns of maintenance departments.

Features

  • Offers a complete survey of the field, an introduction to maintenance and a review of maintenance management.

  • Includes a manual for cost reduction and a primer for the stockroom.

  • Includes a training regime for new supervisors, managers and planners.

Review

The field of maintenance is hard to approach because the language is strange. Now in its second edition and written by a highly acclaimed maintenance professional, this comprehensive and very user-friendly resource introduces the fundamentals of maintenance and allows the outsider to understand the jargon. This revision of a classic has been thoroughly updated to include advances in technology and is sure to be found useful by maintenance professionals everywhere. It offers a complete survey of the field, an introduction to maintenance and a review of maintenance management. It provides a manual for cost reduction and a primer for the stockroom. It includes a training regime for new supervisors, managers and planners.

Excerpt


Table of Contents

How to Use This Book
Introduction
Why Manage Maintenance

Patterns in Maintenance Departments

  • Patterns in Maintenance
  • Where's the Money? Proving Your Case to Management
  • How Assets Deteriorate
  • Estimating Maintenance Budgets for Buildings and Equipment
  • Evaluating Maintenance
  • Maintenance Metrics, KPIs and Benchmarks
  • Evaluating Worker Productivity
  • Budgeting Maintenance
  • Life Cycle Costing

Strategies for Dealing with the Dominant Pattern in Maintenance Departments

  • The Science of Customer Service
  • Reengineering Maintenance
  • Dealing with Contracts
  • In-Sourcing and TPM
  • 5S
  • Guaranteed Maintainability
  • Maintenance Quality Improvement
  • ISO 900X and Maintenance
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Lean Maintenance
  • RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance)
  • PM Optimization
  • Accounting Issues of Maintenance and Activity-Based Costing
  • Maintenance Information Flow
  • Capturing Maintenance Information
  • Fire Fighting
  • PM (Preventive Maintenance)
  • How to Install a PM System
  • PM Task List Development
  • PdM (Predictive Maintenance)


Support for Maintenance Strategies - Logistical and Organizational

  • Preplanning: Projects That Put You in the Driver's Seat
  • Using Statistics in Maintenance
  • Planning
  • Project Management
  • Estimating Job Duration and Work Standards
  • Maintenance Scheduling
  • CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems)
  • Maintenance Parts and Supplies
  • Maintenance Vendors
  • Maintenance Stock Room and Inventory Control
  • The Internet and Maintenance
  • How Maintenance Interfaces with Other Departments
  • Elements of Maintenance Leadership
  • Craft Training
  • Special Issues of Factory Maintenance
  • Special Issues of Fleet Maintenance
  • Special Issues of Building Maintenance
  • Special Issues of Field Service

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