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Asset Management, PAS 55 and its Link to Lean

How Do Continuous Improvement Management Philosophies Relate to the Maintenance Function?

Most of us have heard terms such Lean Manufacturing, the 80/20 rule, TQM, TPS, Kaizen, 5S and TPM. They are all management philosophies that can be applied to the practical aspects of a business including the maintenance function, but quite often maintenance becomes a passenger in a businesses effort to apply new philosophies. This paper briefly explains some of the more common continuous improvement management philosophies and describes how they can be related to the maintenance function.

Lean Manufacturing - Are you Ready?

Ron Moore

Innumerable books have been written about Toyota and their lean manufacturing practices. Literally thousands of companies have tried to emulate these practices, some with some short-term success, but most with little or no long-term success. Jeff Liker, author of The Toyota Way, at one point estimated that only about one percent of US companies are truly effective at applying lean manufacturing practices. Few achieve the high level of sustained performance embodied in lean manufacturing principles. Why is this?

Linking Lean Manufacturing and Reliability

by Andy Page, GPAllied

The concepts contained within Lean Manufacturing are not limited merely to production systems. These concepts translate directly into the world of maintenance and reliability.

The Lean Dream

by Joel Levitt

I have a dream. No not the dream of Martin Luther King about all people being created equal. My dream is about the organizations that we all work for.

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