
Lean Maintenance
Reduce Costs, Improve Quality, and Increase Market Share
Butterworth-Heinemann (Publisher)
Published on 11. June 2004
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-7506-7779-0 (ISBN)
Description
What is "Lean?" Whether referring to manufacturing operations or maintenance, lean is about doing more with less: less effort, less space, fewer defects, less throughput time, lower volume requirements, less capital for a given level of output, etc. The need to provide the customer more value with less waste is a necessity for any firm wanting to stay in business, especially in today's increasingly global market place. And this is what lean thinking is all about.Lean Operations are difficult to sustain. More Lean Manufacturing Plant Transformations have been abandoned than have achieved true Lean Enterprise status. There are solid and recurring reasons for both of these conditions. The most significant of these reasons is that production support processes have not been pre-positioned or refined adequately to assist the manufacturing plant in making the lean transformation. And the most significant of the support functions is the maintenance operation, which determines production line equipment reliability. Moving the maintenance operation well into its own lean transformation is a must-do prerequisite for successful manufacturing plant - or any process plant - Lean Transformations. This Handbook provides detailed, step-by-step, fully explained processes for each phase of Lean Maintenance implementation providing examples, checklists and methodologies of a quantity, detail and practicality that no previous publication has even approached. It is required reading, and a required reference, for every plant and facility that is planning, or even thinking of adopting "Lean" as their mode of operation.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Reliability Engineers, Maintenance Engineers, Mechanical Engineers
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
Approx. 100 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
630 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7506-7779-0 (9780750677790)
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Reduce Costs, Improve Quality, and Increase Market Share
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Persons
Ricky has over 30 years in maintenance and reliability as a maintenance manager, maintenance supervisor, maintenance training specialist, field engineer, maintenance mechanic, maintenance consultant and is a well known published author. Ricky has worked with maintenance organizations in hundreds of facilities, industrial plants, ships, etc, world wide in developing reliability, maintenance and technical training strategies. Prior to joining Allied Reliability in 2008, Ricky worked as a professional maintenance employee for Exxon Company USA, Alumax (this plant was rated the best in the world for over 18 years), Kendall Company, and Hercules Chemical providing the foundation for his reliability and maintenance experience. Ricky is the co-author of "Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers?, "Lean Maintenance? and "Industrial Repair, Best Maintenance Repair Practices?. Ricky also writes for different magazines during the past 20 years on technical, reliability and maintenance subjects.Ricky holds certification as Certified Plant Maintenance Manager from the Association of Facilities Engineering as well as a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional from the Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals.Ricky lives in Charleston, SC with his wife. Aside form spending time with his 3 children and 3 grandchildren, Ricky enjoys kayaking, fishing, hiking and archaeology.
Author
CMRP,Reliability Strategy Leader
Ivara Corporation
Ivara Corporation
Life Cycle Engineering, North Charleston, SC, USA
Content
Common Ground; Goals and Objectives; Total Productive Maintenance (TPM); Pre-Planning for Lean Maintenance; The Lean Maintenance Master Plan; Implementing the Plan; Executing Lean Maintenance; Summarizing the Concepts: LM in Practice; Checklists and Forms; Documentation Examples