Fundamentals of Preventive Maintenance [Hardcover]

John M. Gross (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 9, 2002

Murphy's law applies to everything...including manufacturing equipment! Since the machines people depend on will always break down - generally at the worst possible moment - companies need to institute preventive-maintenance management programs in order to both maximize equipment life and minimize downtime. Fundamentals of Preventive Maintenance gives readers all the information they need, outlining a systematic and flexible program describing what needs to be done, and why.

Editorial Reviews

Book Description

"Plant engineers and maintenance managers know from experience: All manufacturing equipment will break down, often at the worst possible moment. To survive in today’s lean-and-mean manufacturing environment, companies must head off these breakdowns with a preventive-maintenance management program that is both systematic and flexible -- and geared toward minimizing downtime and maximizing equipment life.

Fundamentals of Preventive Maintenance provides readers with an easy-to-follow, economically sensible maintenance and workorder management program. This results-driven guidebook outlines a 7-step process for designing and implementing the program, describing what needs to be done -- and why. Designed to transform an often unwieldy program into one that can be effectively managed, it provides hands-on techniques for:

* Establishing critical scheduling protocols

* Managing the daily workorder schedule

* Developing and issuing preventive maintenance workorders

* Monitoring the program and making improvements"

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Gross is a licensed professional engineer and Six Sigma Blackbelt. He regularly writes articles on productivity for international trade magazines and journals.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: AMACOM; 1st edition (August 9, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0814407366
• ISBN-13: 978-0814407363
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,195,651 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Knockout How To Manual, December 23, 2002

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Kevin (Hamburg, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fundamentals of Preventive Maintenance (Hardcover)

Whether you use this as a bookshelf reference or a daily guide in either implementing or fine tuning your own PM program, the book is easy reading and provides a wealth of concepts, actual examples and sound advice. I've had the opportunity to watch this program work and it's dynamite. However, stepping up to this level and creating a new way of operation can be painful. John Gross provides the hard earned experience and guidelines to make your effort more successful and help you avoid the mindfields of being on the cutting edge. This is must reading for any plant manager, plant engineer or plant operations manager. For those running warehouse operations, the concepts apply equally well for facility and equipment support.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Knockout How To Manual, December 23, 2002

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Kevin (Hamburg, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fundamentals of Preventive Maintenance (Hardcover)

Whether you use this as a bookshelf reference or a daily guide in either implementing or fine tuning your own PM program, the book is easy reading and provides a wealth of concepts, actual examples and sound advice. I've had the opportunity to watch this program work and it's dynamite. However, stepping up to this level and creating a new way of operation can be painful. John Gross provides the hard earned experience and guidelines to make your effort more successful and help you avoid the mindfields of being on the cutting edge. This is must reading for any plant manager, plant engineer or plant operations manager. For those running warehouse operations, the concepts apply equally well for facility and equipment support.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent guide for an inintial implementation of preventive maintenance, April 1, 2008

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Edwin Rodriguez (Colombia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fundamentals of Preventive Maintenance (Paperback)

Explains the basic concepts and steps to follow about an initial implementation of preventive maintenance program.
Very clear and easy to follow