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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809959503321

Autore

Kister Timothy C

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier Butterworth -Heinemann, c2006

ISBN

1-280-62941-X

9786610629411

0-08-045629-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HawkinsBruce

Disciplina

658.2/02

Soggetti

Plant maintenance - Planning

Production management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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