Maintenance planning and scheduling : streamline your organization for a lean environment / Timothy C. Kister, Bruce Hawkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kister, Timothy C.

Contributor:

Hawkins, Bruce.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plant maintenance--Planning.

Plant maintenance.

Production management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Butterworth -Heinemann, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a hands-on reference guide for the maintenance or reliability engineer and plant manager. As the third volume in the "Life Cycle Engineering? series, this book takes the guiding principles of Lean Manufacturing and Maintenance and applies these concepts to everyday planning and scheduling tasks allowing engineers to keep their equipment running smoothly, while decreasing downtime. The authors offer invaluable advice on the effective use of work orders and schedules and how they fit into the overall maintenance plan. There are not many books out there on planning and scheduling

Contents:

Historical view of maintenance

The plant/facility lean environment

Governing principles and concepts of lean maintenance

Origins of the maintenance planner

Organization alternatives

Performing the planning function

Performing the maintenance scheduling function

Special case : maintenance planning and scheduling for maintenance outages

the plant shutdown

Tips, tricks, and avoiding pitfalls

Metrics : measuring planning and scheduling performance

Planning and scheduling fundamentals

self-test.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-280-62941-X

9786610629411

0-08-045629-4

OCLC:

304076711