Lean Maintenance : A Practical, Step-By-Step Guide for Increasing Efficiency

Ever-increasing backlogs, delays in job starts, lack of time for planning, tension and coordination problems between maintenance and production, and the lack of performance metrics are all real-world issues maintenance organizations face. Many companies struggle to apply Lean in maintenance, which often becomes a forgotten area of efficiency, while supposed "improvement" initiatives focus on cutting budgets. This misaligned strategy can hurt the equipment reliability in the long run. The Lean approach will surely improve maintenance and reliability, but it must be astutely adapted. Lean Maintenance: A Practical, Step-By-Step Guide for Increasing Efficiency helps the reader understand the key points of the Lean philosophy-value-add and process waste-in a maintenance context. It is a hands-on guide that teaches you each step of the improvement journey. This book also shows how to, Improve the working atmosphere by simplifying work, Expand communication between production and maintenance functions, Use provided tools to measure performance and improvements, This practical format is geared for use in groups and team training. It will assist in improving commutation and coordination between production and maintenance so organizations will ultimately get more work done by working smarter and not harder. Book jacket.