Books

In Don't Just Fix It, Improve It! A Journey to the Precision...

In Don't Just Fix It, Improve It! A Journey to the Precision Domain you will learn: Strategies and tools for organizational evolution How to stop spending money fixing failures and losing production How defects affect bottom line results How to use the Hero's Journey to build a learning organization Don't...

Basics of Fleet Maintenance is designed for anyone who is involved with...

Basics of Fleet Maintenance is designed for anyone who is involved with operating or maintaining mobile equipment. This book is written in a clear, straight forward style as it identifies important issues for managing Fleet Maintenance in today's environment. In addition to providing strategies and techniques for Fleet Maintenance management,...

This reference is a powerful tool to strengthen vital in-house competency on...

This reference is a powerful tool to strengthen vital in-house competency on the subject for professionals in a variety of fields. After presenting governing fundamental principles and background on modern measurement, computational tools, and troubleshooting methods, the author provides practical instruction and demonstration on how to diagnose vibration problems and...

Lubrication and Maintenance of Industrial Machinery explains the key role of effective equipment...

Lubrication and Maintenance of Industrial Machinery explains the key role of effective equipment lubrication practices in a proactive reliability-based maintenance program and the best practices for achieving the cost reduction and the inherent resultant increase in operational reliability. Incorporating lean methods, the book can be used by everyone in the production...

This is a challenging, innovative, and timely new look at implementing Total...

This is a challenging, innovative, and timely new look at implementing Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) by one of the field's leading trainers and authors. The book takes into account the economic upheavals of recent years and demonstrates that TPM is less about moving maintenance tasks to operations than moving accountability...

Benefit from improved safety, performance, and product deliveries to your customers. Achieve...

Benefit from improved safety, performance, and product deliveries to your customers. Achieve a higher rate of equipment availability, performance, product quality, and reliability. Integrated Reliability: Condition Monitoring and Maintenance of Equipment incorporates reliable engineering and mathematical modeling to help you move toward sustainable development in reliability condition monitoring and maintenance....

Best Practices in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement reveals how to refocus...

Best Practices in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement reveals how to refocus lean/six sigma processes on what author Richard Schonberger—world-renowned process improvement pioneer—calls "the Golden Goals": better quality, quicker response, greater flexibility, and higher value. This manual shows you how it can be done, employing success stories of over 100...

Typical leadership training never seems to ‘move the needle’ in terms of...

Typical leadership training never seems to ‘move the needle’ in terms of creating more effective leaders. That’s because the system that supports leadership hasn’t changed. To get true improvement in leadership, organizations need to focus on accountability. There must be an asset management system that defines and assigns accountability. Then individual leaders...

Christer Idhammar’s and IDCON’s maintenance management book is an inspiring source of...

Christer Idhammar’s and IDCON’s maintenance management book is an inspiring source of knowledge in reliability and maintenance management leadership, execution and practical tips. This maintenance management book comprise of one to two page, independent reliability and maintenance articles on a wide variety of subjects (see the table of content below),...

Completely revised and updated, this tenth edition of a bestseller covers both...

Completely revised and updated, this tenth edition of a bestseller covers both management and technical strategies for slashing energy costs by as much as 40 percent in industrial facilities. It discusses cogeneration, gas distributed generation technologies, steam system optimization, geothermal heat pumps, energy outsourcing, electricity purchasing strategies, and power quality...

Divided into three basic sections, this unique resource provides an understandable and...

Divided into three basic sections, this unique resource provides an understandable and implementable approach to inserting Lean in a manufacturing operation, pointing out the stumbling blocks and pitfalls to avoid. Its goal is to to help American manufacturing more effectively go about the task of making Lean a viable process....