
Lean Maintenance
Reduce Costs, Improve Quality, and Increase Market Share
Description
Key Features
* Eliminate wasteful practices from your manufacturing or chemical processes, increasing the profitability of your plant
* Save thousands of dollars a year on new equipment by keeping your existing equipment maintained using this revolutionary method
Readership
Table of Contents
- 1. Common Ground
1.1 The History and Evolution of Learn
1.2 Lean Manufacturing and Lean
1.3 Governing Principles: What is Lean and What is Not
1.4 Relationships in the Lean Environment
1.5 Summary of Lean Concepts
2. Goals and Objectives
2.1 The Primary Goals and Objectives of Manufacturing
2.2 Integrating Lean Goals with Maintenance Goals
2.3 The Need for, and Gaining, Commitment
2.4 Measuring Progress
3. Total Productive Maintenance
3.1 TPM (Fine-Tuned) is Lean Maintenance
3.2 Fine-Tuning TPM Using Reliability Centered Maintenance
4. Pre-Planning for Lean Maintenance
4.1 Gaining Knowledge/Imparting Knowledge
4.2 The Transformation Roadmap
4.3 Lean Maintenance Transformation Kick-Off Meeting
4.4 Phase 1: Developing the POA&M and the Master Plan
5. Launching the Master Plan (POA&M)
5.1 The Sequence of Events
6. Mobilizing and Expanding the Lean Transformation
6.1 Mobilizing Lean in the Maintenance Organization (Phase 4)
6.2 Expanding the Lean Maintenance Transformation
7. Sustaining Lean – Long Term Execution
7.1 Sustaining Continuous Improvement (Phase 6)
Appendix A: Checklists and Forms
Appendix B: Documentation Examples
Appendix C: Articles of Interest
Glossary
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 304
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 2004
- Published: May 19, 2004
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780750677790
- eBook ISBN: 9780080478906
About the Authors
Ricky Smith
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.
Affiliations and Expertise
Bruce Hawkins
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
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RichardSmith Tue Oct 15 2019
Good reference
Good reference