The Handbook of Maintenance Management

Front Cover
Industrial Press Inc., 2009 - Business & Economics - 455 pages

Now in its second edition and written by a highly acclaimed maintenance professional, this comprehensive and easy-to-understand resource provides a short review of all the major discussions going on in the management of the maintenance function. This revision of a classic has been thoroughly updated to include advances in technology and thinking and is sure to be found useful by maintenance professionals everywhere. It's the perfect reference for any maintenance professional that needs a quick update on any specific area within the subject.

  • Contains five entirely new chapters, including Dealing with Contracts, 5S, Lean Maintenance, PM Optimizing, and Fire Fighting.
  • Offers a complete survey of the field, an introduction to maintenance and a review of maintenance management.
  • Provides a manual for cost reduction and a primer for the stockroom.
  • Includes a training regime for new supervisors, managers and planners.
 

Contents

Introduction
3
Why Manage Maintenance
8
Section on Patterns The following chapters cover patterns in Maintenance Departments 1 Patterns in Maintenance
25
Wheres the Money? Proving Your Case to Management
28
How Assets Deteriorate
39
Estimating Maintenance Budgets for Buildings and Equipment
43
Evaluating Maintenance
51
Maintenance Metrics KPIs and Benchmarks 7
52
How to Install a PM System
226
PM Task List Development
242
PdM Predictive Maintenance
258
Projects That Put You in the Drivers Seat
272
Using Statistics in Maintenance
281
Planning
287
Project Management
291
Estimating Job Duration and Work Standards
296

Evaluating Worker Productivity
75
Budgeting Maintenance
83
Life Cycle Costing Section on Strategies The following chapters cover strategies to deal with the dominant pattern present in Maintenance 1
92
3 3
101
Departments
102
The Science of Customer Service
103
Reengineering Maintenance
106
Dealing with Contracts 101 106
114
InSourcing and
128
14
135
Guaranteed Maintainability
138
Maintenance Quality Improvement
140
ISO 900X and Maintenance
147
Continuous Improvement
156
Lean Maintenance
162
RCM Reliability Centered Maintenance
164
Maintenance Information Flow
182
Capturing Maintenance Information
192
Fire Fighting
215
PM Preventive Maintenance
219
Maintenance Scheduling
301
CMMS Computerized Maintenance Management Systems
305
Maintenance Parts and Supplies
328
Maintenance Vendors
332
Maintenance Stock Room and Inventory Control
338
The Internet and Maintenance
349
How Maintenance Interfaces with Other Departments
355
Elements of Maintenance Leadership
363
Craft Training
374
Special Issues of Factory Maintenance
391
Special Issues of Fleet Maintenance
398
Special Issues of Building Maintenance
409
Special Issues of Field Service
428
Glossary
436
Resources
446
135
451
164
452
PM Optimization 168
453
Copyright

Common terms and phrases

About the author (2009)

Joel Levitt is known worldwide as a leading educator in maintenance management. He has trained more than 17,000 maintenance professionals from thousands of organizations in 25 countries. He has more than 30 years of experience in many facets of maintenance. Since 1980, he has been president of Springfield Resources, a management/consulting firm servicing clients on a wide range of maintenance issues. Levitt is a frequent speaker at maintenance and engineering conferences, has published dozens of articles on the subject, as well as a number of successful books, including The Complete Guide to Preventive and Predictive Maintenance;The Handbook of Maintenance Management;Lean Maintenance; Managing Factory Maintenance: and Managing Maintenance Shutdowns and Outages.