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The key to uptime in manufacturing is managing risk, and Surviving the Spare Parts Crisis describes how to evaluate risk in the inventory. The book shows how the maintenance department can provide better support to purchasing agents and buyers and provides dozens of ideas to properly reduce inventory, reduce usage, and save money.

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.

Tap into Joel Levitt's vast array of experience and learn how to improve almost any aspect of your maintenance organization (including your own abilities)! This new edition of a classic first educates readers about the globalization of production and the changing of the guard of maintenance leadership, and then gives them real usable ideas to aid in these areas. Completely reorganized so that material is presented within the context of major sections, the second edition tells the story of maintenance management in factory settings. It provides coverage of potential problems and new opportunities, what bosses really want, specifics for improvement of maintenance and production, World Class Maintenance Management revisited and revised, quality improvement, complete coverage of current maintenance practices, processes, process aids, interfaces and strategies, as well as personal and personnel development strategies.   Contains a specialized glossary so users can more easily understand the specialized language of factory maintenance.Provides specific "how-to" tips and concrete techniques and examples for continuous improvement.Updates the 20 steps to world class maintenance to include the 6 areas of focus for world class maintenance.Includes a completely updated maintenance evaluation questionnaire that reflects new techniques and technologies.Breaks down and explains the three-team approach to maintenance work.Offers new sections on: managing shutdowns, craft training, and communications.Contains major revisions to the RCM discussion and includes a new discussion about PMO.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

Shares the best practices, mistakes, victories, and essential steps for success which the author has gleaned from working with countless organizations. This resource includes check sheets, history of PM, stories, photographs, and case histories. It also provides sample task lists for a variety of equipment with some of the logic behind each task.

Offers a fresh look at implementing Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). This book takes into account the economic upheavals and demonstrates that TPM is less about moving maintenance tasks to operations than moving accountability for aggregate output of the plant to operators.