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The term ‘audit’ has come to mean the process of inspecting and
checking a company’s accounts. From time to time companies also
need to audit the other aspects of their managerial activities,
those concerned with production, sales, maintenance, and so on.
Auditing the management of maintenance involves inspecting and
checking the managerial activities concerned - the setting of
strategy, the formation of organizations, the designing of systems –
and then the essential linkages with other functions of the company,
such as production, stores control, and so forth. Such an audit
“maps” (models and describes) the existing maintenance management
processes in order to assess their cost-effectiveness -- arguably
the most fundamental measure of their excellence. In this book the
author shows how he has developed a unique procedure for auditing
the management of both productive plant and infrastructure -- for
example, of petrochemical processing plants and of vehicle fleets.

Distinctive Features You’ll Find…
• Case studies demonstrate the flexible application of this unique
procedure to comprehensive audits of several weeks duration, to
“fingerprint” audits taking perhaps only a day or so, and to
benchmarking exercises.
• Using the ideas and procedures in this book, industrial managers
will be better able to audit their own maintenance departments
themselves, or better interface and direct audits by external
consultants.
• These investigations will highlight existing problems and identify
their causes – a necessary process before embarking on major
organizational or system change.

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Improving Proving Maintenance & Reliability Through Cultural Change By Stephen J. Thomas

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•  This unique and innovative book explains how to improve your maintenance and reliability performance at the plant level by changing the organization’s culture. It is specifically intended for middle managers in the manufacturing and process industries. This book demystifies the concept of organizational culture and links it with the eight elements of change:  leadership, work process, structure, group learning, technology, communication, interrelationships, and rewards. If you want to break the cycle of failed improvement programs and instead use cultural change to help make significant and lasting improvements in plant performance, this book will show you how.  
   
  Distinctive Features You’ll Find…
   
  ·       Explains in-depth the eight elements of change and how they relate to cultural change.
  ·       Discusses cultural change with a reliability focus.
  ·       Presents the subject in a way that middle managers will be able to understand and apply.
  ·       Includes a PowerPoint presentation with audio on the enclosed CD-ROM, together with a web survey model, the Web of Organizational Change.

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The Maintenance Scorecard
Creating Strategic Advantage
By Daryl Mather

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This is the first book to seriously tackle the subject of bringing asset management into line with other areas of corporate activity. Through a unique adaptation of the balanced scorecard approach to asset management, it provides a structured approach for both the development of strategy and its implementation.  Readers can find a catalog of indicators along with their uses and weaknesses, a definitive guide to measuring the success of RCM programs, and a logical format that leads them from start to finish through each phase of the maintenance scorecard approach. If you or your company needs to manage physical assets, you need this book!

Distinctive Features You’ll Find…
 

·    Provides the RCM Scorecard, which is unique to this book and has not been done previously to this level of detail.

·    Includes information and hints on each phase of the maintenance scorecard approach.

·    Focuses at length on the creation of strategy for asset management and details the differences between various industry types, sectors and markets.

·    Offers an introduction to the methodology of Problem Elimination Logic, and its application and use in the industry.

·    Contains a brief overview of the Technical Change Management System a method for increasing the effectiveness of capital spending in maintenance

·    Provides a guide to some of the true uses and limitations of benchmarking as a strategic tool for improvement.

·    Uses many illustrations throughout to explain and underline the concepts being presented.

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Developing Performance Indicators for Managing Maintenance (2nd Edition) By Terry Wireman

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Developing Performance Indicators for Managing Maintenance provides the key details on how to measure and improve one of the most important functions in an organization today: Equipment or Asset Maintenance Management.  As one of only a handful of comprehensive collections of performance indicators for managing maintenance in print today, this book is distinguished by its use of techniques based on a variety of management measurement systems, such as the Balanced Scorecard approach. While the previous edition primarily concentrated on the basic indicators for managing maintenance and how to link them to a company’s financials, this new edition goes further by also addressing recent advancements in the management of maintenance. It is an invaluable tool for any company that wants to effectively measure and manage the entire spectrum of maintenance activities to help achieve competitive advantage. Such companies view maintenance as a way to reduce costs of producing their product or providing their services and are intent on using this cost advantage to lower prices, improve profit margins, and improve shareholder value. 

Distinctive Features You’ll Find…

·         Shows how to maximize your investment in the maintenance function and ultimately your company's assets by helping you focus on specific indicators.

·         Connects typical functional maintenance indicators to a company's strategic indicators.

·         Explains how to improve low-performing indicators.

·         Includes a detailed table of contents that helps you quickly find specific indicators and a separate a glossary of maintenance terms.

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Providing a clear explanation of the value and benefits of maintenance, this unique guide is written in a language and style that practicing engineers and managers can understand and apply easily. Effective Maintenance Management examines the role of maintenance in minimizing the risk of safety or environmental incidents, adverse publicity, and loss of profitability. In addition to discussing risk reduction tools, it explains their applicability to specific situations, thereby enabling you to select the tool that best fits your requirements. Intended to bridge the gap between designers/maintainers and reliability engineers, this guide is sure to help businesses utilize their assets more effectively, safely, and profitably.
 

Distinctive Features You’ll Find…

·         Addresses the philosophical question of why we need to do maintenance and what is the value added by doing it.

·         Shows readers how to determine what tasks are required and when they need to be done to achieve optimum performance.

·         Provides a risk reduction model which links maintenance to these risks.

·         Enables readers to make the link between maintenance on one hand and safety, profitability, and asset life on the other.

·         Examines risks faced during the life cycle of a process plant.

·         Discusses how to manage risks faced during a high cost, high downtime maintenance activity, namely plant shutdowns.

·         Provides an in-depth look at qualitative and quantitative risks.

·         Includes a table of fixed format codes that can be used directly or adapted for use in most maintenance management systems.

RELIABILITY-CENTERED MAINTENANCE, Second Edition by John Moubray 

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Initially developed by the aviation industry, RCM is rapidly becoming fundamental to the practice of maintenance management and is now in use at hundreds of industrial and service organizations around the world. This book provides an authoritative and practical explanation of what RCM is and how it can be applied. It is of vital importance to anyone concerned with productivity, quality, safety, and environmental integrity.  

Distinctive Features You’ll Find…

Written by an expert in the field who has helped users apply RCM and its more modern derivative, RCM2, at more than 600 sites in 32 countries. The second edition includes more than 100 pages of new material on:

• condition monitoring
• the analysis of functions and failures
• human error
• the management risk
• failure finding
• the measurement maintenance performance

Tap into Joel Levitt's vast array of experience and learn how to improve almost any aspect of your maintenance organization (including your own abilities)! This new edition of a classic first educates readers about the globalization of production and the changing of the guard of maintenance leadership, and then gives them real usable ideas to aid in these areas. Completely reorganized so that material is presented within the context of major sections, the second edition tells the story of maintenance management in factory settings. It provides coverage of potential problems and new opportunities, what bosses really want, specifics for improvement of maintenance and production, World Class Maintenance Management revisited and revised, quality improvement, complete coverage of current maintenance practices, processes, process aids, interfaces and strategies, as well as personal and personnel development strategies. 

• Contains a specialized glossary so users can more easily understand the specialized language of factory maintenance.
• Provides specific “how-to” tips and concrete techniques and examples for continuous improvement.
• Updates the 20 steps to world class maintenance to include the 6 areas of focus for world class maintenance.
• Includes a completely updated maintenance evaluation questionnaire that reflects new techniques and technologies.
• Breaks down and explains the three-team approach to maintenance work.
• Offers new sections on: managing shutdowns, craft training, and communications.
• Contains major revisions to the RCM discussion and includes a new discussion about PMO.

• Introduction
• Glossary
• What is the Context for Managing Maintenance?
• Evaluating Current Maintenance Practices
• Maintenance Processes
• Maintenance Process Aids
• Maintenance Strategies: Approaches to Deterioration
• Maintenance Interfaces: Where Does Maintenance Fit In?
• Personal and Personnel Development

A culmination of 15 years of research, teaching, and consulting, this book shares the best practices, mistakes, victories, and essential steps for success which the author has gleaned from working with countless organizations. Unlike other books that only focus on the engineering issues (task lists) or management issues (CMMS), this in-depth resource is the first to give true emphasize to the four aspects of success in preventive maintenance systems--engineering, management, economic, and psychological -- thereby enabling readers to have a balanced view and understanding of what is happening in their organizations. Additionally, it blends concrete actionable steps and structures with the theory behind the steps.
• Includes check sheets, history of PM, stories, photographs, and case histories.
• Contains a glossary of terms.
• Provides sample task lists for a variety of equipment with some of the logic behind each task.
• Offers templates for developing your own tasking.
• Includes protocols for detailed economic analysis with examples.

CONTENTS
• Groundwork
• P/PM Economics
• Selling PPM to Management: Battle for Share of the Mind
• PM Basics
• PM Details for Effectiveness
• Nuts and Boltings
• Advanced Concepts-PM at the Next Level
• Personnel Issues
• Predictive Tasks
• Get it Going Right
• The Future of P/PM
• Glossary

 

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Completely revised and updated, this new edition of a classic reference focuses on the financial approach to the subject—a methodology that produces quantifiable results allowing a TPM program to be sustainable. And while clarifying what TPM is and what it is not, it clearly presents the economic value of TPM and shows how to calculate the Return on Investment (ROI) that a company can expect. It is the perfect resource for anyone who is considering implementing TPM or looking for ways of improving their current process.
• Various case studies that show how to explain the value of OEE to everyone in the organization, from the senior executive to the shop floor personnel.
• OEE discussions showing how to “dollarize” results and present the financial terms to executive financial personnel.
• A clarification of the goals and objectives of TPM, allowing TPM Champions to clearly present a TPM business case to their organizations.
• Explanations of the pitfalls that may be encountered during TPM implementation and how to avoid or correct these problems.

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Written in a clear, understandable style, this new edition of Vibration Spectrum Analysis includes valuable information on using the latest techniques of spectrum analysis in solving problems and enhancing machine reliability. Vibration analysts, predictive maintenance specialists, and field mechanics will find it to be a key reference. A book good for both engineers and non-engineers alike.

• Offers new information on current instrumentation as well as additional appendixes, case histories and practice questions.
• Explains how to use instrumentation to monitor and interpret vibration signature.
• Provides information needed to identify potential problems before they cause machine failure.
• Emphasizes practical matters of developing an intuitive understanding of the nature of vibration, giving the reader the ability to attack any problem with a good chance of success.

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Well-planned, properly scheduled, and effectively communicated jobs accomplish more work, more efficiently, and at a lower cost. Written by a widely recognized consultant and a leading trainer of maintenance professionals, Maintenance Planning, Scheduling and Coordination focuses on and deals specifically with the preparatory tasks that lead to effective utilization and application of maintenance resources. It is a vital training document for planners, an educational document for those to whom planners are responsible, and a valuable guide for those who interface with the planning and scheduling function and are dependent upon the many contributions of planning and scheduling operational excellence.

 Sure to aid organizations that pursue “Maintenance Excellence,” this useful guide covers the basics commonly contained within world-class programs for effective execution of maintenance work: planning, parts acquisition, work measurement, coordination and scheduling. It addresses maintenance management, performance and control. And it clarifies the scope, responsibilities and contributions of the Planner/Scheduler function and the support of other functions to Job Preparation, Execution, and Completion.

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“This is an excellent reference manual. I believe it should be in the hands of every manager, engineer, and supervisor in the maintenance field.” --James A. Collier, University of Arkansas 

• Provides a clear, concise benchmarking methodology
• Clearly explains and interprets the most current maintenance benchmarks
• Contains a benchmarking database from more than 100 companies
• Features current maintenance/asset management philosophies
• Includes a new chapter on benchmarking theory
• Offers more information on self-analysis

This book was written for all maintenance managers who have been given the difficult task of bringing change to their organizations. It addresses organizational change at the working level. It is a “user’s guide” in change management, written by a user, for users. This is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to know, step by step, how to implement change successfully.   This book:

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