Lean maintenance : reduce costs, improve quality, and increase market share / Ricky Smith and Bruce Hawkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Ricky.

Contributor:

Hawkins, Bruce.

Series:

Plant engineering (Butterworth-Heinemann (Firm))

Life cycle engineering series

Plant engineering

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Production management.

Manufacturing processes.

Just-in-time systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is ""Lean?"" Whether referring to manufacturing operations or maintenance, lean is about doing more with less: less effort, less space, fewer defects, less throughput time, lower volume requirements, less capital for a given level of output, etc. The need to provide the customer more value with less waste is a necessity for any firm wanting to stay in business, especially in today's increasingly global market place. And this is what lean thinking is all about.Lean Operations are difficult to sustain. More Lean Manufacturing Plant Transformations have been abandoned than have achie

Contents:

Preliminaries; 1 Common Ground; 2 Goals and Objectives; 3 Total Productive Maintenance (TPM); 4 Pre-Planning for Lean Maintenance; 5 Launching the Master Plan (POA&M); 6 Mobilizing and Expanding the Lean Transformation; 7 Sustaining Lean- Long-Term Execution; Appendix A Checklists and Forms; Appendix B Documentation Examples; Appendix C Articles of Interest; Glossary; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4175-3732-9

1-281-00984-9

9786611009847

0-08-047890-5

OCLC:

701840154