Lean maintenance repair and overhaul : changing the way you do business / Mandyam M. Srinivasan, Melissa R. Bowers, Kenneth C. Gilbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Srinivasan, Mandyam M., author.

Bowers, Melissa R., author.

Gilbert, Kenneth C., author.

Series:

McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lean manufacturing.

Industrial equipment--Maintenance and repair--Management.

Industrial equipment.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Lean Maintenance Repair and Overhaul describes how MRO organizations can achieve significant improvement in financial performance by applying the Theory of Constraints (TOC) to guide the implementation of Lean manufacturing tools. This Lean/TOC approach facilitates a growth strategy by providing customer value, such as faster turnaround times, that the competition cannot match. Lean/TOC creates the capacity for this growth by eliminating waste. This practical guide shows how Lean/TOC also provides the improvement strategy for dealing with the variation that distinguishes MRO from high-volume, repetitive manufacturing. The methodology expands the improvement efforts beyond the manufacturing floor to make the organizational changes needed to facilitate growth and to empower the workforce to be enthusiastic participants in the improvement processes. You will learn how these concepts have been applied to MRO organizations in the commercial and defense sectors.

Contents:

Foreword

Preface

The purpose of this book

What is unique about this book?

Who should read this book

Acknowledgments

About the authors

The mro business opportunity

The mro landscape

Characterizing the mro process

Outsourcing

Traditional decision making and the cost world

The throughput world perspective

The dupont model

Summary and conclusions

Notes

The goal of lean and how lean for mro is different

Lean as the enabler of a growth strategy

How lean for mro is different

Some general guidelines for lean/toc in mro

Achieving sustained growth in the mro business

The ever-flourishing mro organization

The toc philosophy

Strategy and tactics trees

Concluding remarks

Appendix 3a: the thinking processes

Managing the mro process

Mro process and project management

Project management with gantt charts and pert/cpm

Applying the thinking processes: what to change?

Applying the thinking processes: what to change to?

Critical chain project management

The projects strategy and tactics tree revisited

Summary and concluding remarks

Enabling flow in an mro environment

Creating flow by standing on the shoulders of giants

Five focusing steps of toc

Policy constraints that hinder flow: the cost world

The throughput world: throughput accounting

The drum-buffer-rope model

Simplified drum-buffer-rope model

The lean mro toolkit

Getting started: value-stream mapping

Overview of lean tools

Managing the back-shops

The traditional back-shop

Improving back-shop performance

Delta airlines: a case study focused on integrating ccpm and s-dbr in engine maintenance

Making it happen: creating a visual culture for the implementation of lean/toc

Visuals and 5s: some examples

Summary: a visual culture to eliminate waste and create flow

Appendix 8a: the power of visualization

Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Lean maintenance repair and overhaul : changing the way you do business.

ISBN:

9780071789943 (print-ISBN)

0071789944 (print-ISBN)

OCLC:

897451325

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