Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
eBook - ePub

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

Streamline Your Organization for a Lean Environment

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

Streamline Your Organization for a Lean Environment

About this book

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, that go beyond the theory and show the engineer, in a hands-on way, how to use planning and scheduling techniques to improve performance, cut costs, and extend the life of their plant machinery.* The only book that takes a direct look at streamlining planning and scheduling for a Lean Manufacturing Environment * This book shows the engineer how to create and stick to effective schedules* Gives examples and templates in the back of the book for use in day-to-day scheduling and calculations

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Yes, you can access Maintenance Planning and Scheduling by Timothy C. Kister,Bruce Hawkins in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Forecasting. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. List of Figures
  5. List of Tables
  6. Acknowledgement
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Chapter 1: Historical View of Maintenance
  9. Chapter 2: The Plant/Facility Lean Environment
  10. Chapter 3: Governing Principles and Concepts of Lean Maintenance
  11. Chapter 4: Origins of the Maintenance Planner
  12. Chapter 5: Organization Alternatives
  13. Chapter 6: Performing the Planning Function
  14. Chapter 7: Performing the Maintenance Scheduling Function
  15. Chapter 8: Special Case
  16. Chapter 9: Tips, Tricks and Avoiding Pitfalls
  17. Chapter 10: Metrics
  18. Chapter 11: Planning and Scheduling Fundamentals—Self-Test
  19. Appendix A: Job/Position Descriptions
  20. Appendix B: Benchmarking and Best Practices
  21. Appendix C: Forms, Worksheets and Checklists
  22. Appendix D: Tutorials in Brief: Control Charts and CPM Schedules
  23. Appendix E: Chapter 11 Self-test: Answers and Solutions
  24. Appendix F: Glossary
  25. Index