Managing maintenance resources / Anthony Kelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelly, Anthony.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plant maintenance--Management.

Plant maintenance.

Plant engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Burlington, MA : Butterworth-Heinemann, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Managing Maintenance Resources shows how to reduce the complexity involved in engineering, or re-engineering, a maintenance organization. It recognises that this is a complex problem involving many inter-related decisions - such as whether or not resources should be centralized, contractor alliances be entered into or flexible working be adopted. This book provides a unique approach to modeling maintenance-production organizations. It enables the identification of problems and delivers guidelines to develop effective solutions. This is one of three stand-alone volumes des

Contents:

Front Cover; Managing Maintenance Resources; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Author's biography; Part 1: Introductory chapters; Chapter 1. A business-centered approach to maintenance organization; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Business-centered maintenance; 1.3 An example of the application of BCM: background; 1.4 Part A: Audit of the FPP maintenance department; 1.5 Part B: An alternative maintenance strategy for continuous operation; 1.6 Part C: A longer-term view of organizational change; 1.7 The strategic thought process; Chapter 2. Maintenance organization in outline

2.1 Introduction2.2 Modeling the organization; 2.3 Factors influencing the design of the maintenance organization; Chapter 3. The maintenance workload; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Categorization of the maintenance workload; 3.3 Mapping the workload; 3.4 Forecasting the maintenance workload; 3.5 Case studies in categorizing and mapping the maintenance workload; Part 2: Maintenance organizational concepts, trends and mapping; Chapter 4. Maintenance resource structure; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Mapping the resource structure; 4.3 Resource characteristics

4.4 A decision model for the design or modification of a resource structure4.5 The key decision-making areas of resource structuring; 4.6 A systematic procedure for determining a resource structure; 4.7 Summary; Chapter 5. Maintenance administrative structure; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Modeling administrative structures; 5.3 Traditional views on administrative management and some guidelines; 5.4 Characteristics of maintenance administrative structures; 5.5 The design or modification of the administrative structure; Chapter 6. Human factors in maintenance management; 6.1 Introduction

6.2 The human relations approach to management: a brief review6.3 Maintenance management behavioral characteristics; 6.4 The effect of outsourcing alliances; 6.5 Auditing maintenance management human factors; Chapter 7. Trends in maintenance organization; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Traditional maintenance organizations; 7.3 Centralized resource structures; 7.4 Introduction of flexible working practices; 7.5 Plant manufacturing units; 7.6 Slimming the structure ('downsizing'); 7.7 The movement toward self-empowered plant-oriented teams; 7.8 Contracting, outsourcing and alliances; 7.9 Summary

Part 3: Maintenance organization case studiesChapter 8. Case study 1: Moving with the times; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Background; 8.3 Audit of the CMG; 8.4 Setting up the alliance; 8.5 Observations; Chapter 9. Case studies 2 and 3: Cautionary tales of organizational change; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Case study 2: A bottling plant; 9.3 Case study 3: An aluminum rolling mill; Chapter 10. Case study 4: Reorganization of a colliery; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Maintenance consultancy at COALCOM-1994; 10.3 Progress visit and consultancy-1997; Chapter 11. Case study 5: The do's and don'ts of maintenance teams

11.1 Introduction

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-280-64254-8

9786610642540

0-08-046261-8

OCLC:

476003822