Lean Maintenance: Reduce Costs, Improve Quality, and Increase Market Share (Life Cycle Engineering Series) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ricky Smith, Bruce Hawkins
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
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ISBN: 0750677791
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.5
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Publication Date: May 19, 2004
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Product Description
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 achieved true Lean Enterprise status.
There are solid and recurring reasons for both of these conditions. The most significant of these reasons is that production support processes have not been pre-positioned or refined adequately to assist the manufacturing plant in making the lean transformation. And the most significant of the support functions is the maintenance operation, which determines production line equipment reliability. Moving the maintenance operation well into its own lean transformation is a must-do prerequisite for successful manufacturing plant - or any process plant - Lean Transformations. This Handbook provides detailed, step-by-step, fully explained processes for each phase of Lean Maintenance implementation providing examples, checklists and methodologies of a quantity, detail and practicality that no previous publication has even approached. It is required reading, and a required reference, for every plant and facility that is planning, or even thinking of adopting "Lean" as their mode of operation.
* A continuous improvement strategy using new "lean" principles
* Eliminate wasteful practices from your manufacturing or chemical processes, increasing the profitability of your plant
* Save thousands of dollars a year on new equipment by keeping your existing equipment maintained using this revolutionary method
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Companies spend millions of dollars every year to replace broken-down or misused equipment, but they would rather maintain existing equipment so that it lasts longer. This kind of maintenance controls costs and improves overall profitability. If you can eliminate waste from your manufacturing process, you can control costs, lower your unit cost, and affect the bottom line. This is the guiding principle for the lean maintenance method.
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 Improving Maintenance by the use of Lean Concepts October 1, 2007
Marco Aurelio Moroni
It's for those who are locking for direct information. Begin with some Lean historical facts, and goes direct to aplications and examples. I found it very usefull and easy to find the information I needed. I would recommend this book for engineers and technicians involved in improving eficience of maintenance activities.
a Lean approach to machinery maintenance processes September 27, 2004
MacAroni (Virginia Beach, VA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Provides the insight that as an organization leans its manufacturing processes, it must also address machinery maintenance processes or reliability suffers. It gives a good background on Lean Manufacturing and rationale for using a lean approach on maintenance processes, along with an excellent "how to" guide for implementing.
A Great "How To" Text July 18, 2004
The book provided an interesting background and history. Once it got into the actual elements of Lean Maintenenance, the text was very comprehensive. It provided a step-by-step process for setting up a lean maintenance program -- a cook-book approach.
Should be very useful for plants thinking about instituting Lean Maintenance.
 Missed the Lean point July 2, 2004
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Good maintenance book, but it missed the point on lean by a mile. If you just what some of the lean ideas, but not how they relate to maintenance it may be for you.
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