You are not signed in. Sign in.

List Books: Buy books on ListBooks.org

Lean Maintenance » (Word)

Book cover image of Lean Maintenance by Joel Levitt

Authors: Joel Levitt
ISBN-13: 9780831133528, ISBN-10: 083113352X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Industrial Press, Inc.
Date Published: June 2008
Edition: Word

Find Best Prices for This Book »

Author Biography: Joel Levitt

Book Synopsis

  • Provides examples at every step of the way to guide the reader.
  • Includes forms and check lists for successful Lean projects.
  • Offers the reader the ability to design and execute a savings project within a day.

Table of Contents

1 Distinguishing Lean from everything else 1

2 Is there a right and wrong way to Lean? 10

3 Economics 15

4 Lean maintenance and world class maintenance 28

5 Lean workers 37

6 Lean maintenance and safety 46

7 Lean organizations and maintenance support 50

8 Lean maintenance parts and storerooms 59

9 Lean maintenance and the work order system 67

10 Lean and the use of the CMMS to uncover waste 75

11 Enabling technology for Lean maintenance 82

12 Lean planning and scheduling 86

13 Lean shutdowns, outages and turnarounds 96

14 Lean fire-fighting 102

15 Lean PM 107

16 TPM and Lean maintenance 115

17 Quality 126

18 Contributions of 5S to Lean maintenance 131

19 The Lean machine 136

20 RCM and Lean maintenance 145

21 Lean and RCA (root cause analysis) 150

22 Lean outsourcing 154

23 Some Lean tools 160

24 Where and how to look for waste 164

25 Lean utilities 178

26 Translating lists into projects 183

27 Unintended consequences 191

28 Lean projects : organizational impact 195

29 Once a Lean project has been chosen for refinement 199

30 Micro-planning 207

31 Execution 210

32 Putting the finishing touches on the presentation 213

33 Publishing Lean projects 218

34 How a school district could save $1,000,000 in O & M costs and improve service! 222

Bibliography 231

Glossary 233

Index 239

Subjects