The Handbook of Maintenance Management

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Industrial Press Inc., 1997 - Business & Economics - 477 pages
The field of maintenance is hard to approach because the language is strange. This book introduces the fundamentals of maintenance and will allow the outsider to understand the jargon. The book offers a complete survey of the field, a review of maintenance management, a manual for cost reduction, a primer for the stock room, and a training regime for new supervisors, managers and planners.
 

Contents

PATTERNS
20
Selling Maintenance Improvements to
27
How Assets Deteriorate
37
Evaluating MaintenanceTwo Questionnaires
48
Benchmarking Maintenance
66
How to Evaluate Worker Productivity
79
Maintenance Budgeting
95
STRATEGIES
106
SUPPORT FOR MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES 28 Projects that Put You in the Drivers Seat
261
Use of Statistics in Maintenance
273
Planning
278
Project Management
282
Estimating Job Duration
287
Maintenance Scheduling
292
CMMSComputerized Maintenance Management Systems
298
Maintenance Parts and Part Vendors
325

Reengineering Maintenance
112
Contracting Outsourcing
121
InSourcing
129
Guaranteed Maintainability
136
ISO 9000 and Its Relation to Maintenance
146
Techniques for Continuous Improvement
153
Improving Maintenance ReliabilityRCM
160
Accounting Issues of Maintenance
164
Maintenance Information Flow
175
Capturing Maintenance Information
186
What is PM?
209
How to Install and Run a PM System
215
PM Task List Development
231
Predictive Maintenance
247
Maintenance Stockroom and Inventory Control
336
The Internet and Maintenance
346
How Maintenance Interfaces to Other Departments
354
Elements of Maintenance Leadership
363
Craft Training of Maintenance Workers
375
Special Issues of Factory Maintenance
394
Special Issues of Fleet Maintenance
401
Special Issues of Building Maintenance
413
Special Issues of Field Service
437
APPENDIX
447
Resources
449
Glossary
463
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About the author (1997)

Joel Levitt is a management consultant living in Philadelphia. He is a regular speaker at more than twenty seminars & conferences a year.