Lean Maintenance [Hardcover]

Joel Levitt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2008 | ISBN-10: 083113352X | ISBN-13: 978-0831133528 | Edition: 1

Written for anyone in a leadership position in maintenance, storeroom or production, this unique book will also be found useful by vendors to the maintenance departments, including maintenance contractors, parts vendors, and various kinds of service providers. As a practical book, Lean Maintenance will take the reader on a journey from uncovering waste, designing projects to address the waste, selling the projects to management and delivering the projects. Every area in maintenance is covered, including your TPM effort, storeroom, PM tasking, work orders and computer systems. What s more, the user will be able to immediately use this book to start the process of saving money, energy, or time within just one hour!

Features
- 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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 200 pages
• Publisher: Industrial Press, Inc.; 1 edition (June 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 083113352X
• ISBN-13: 978-0831133528
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #555,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joel Levitt is a leading trainer of maintenance professionals. He has trained over 15,000 maintenance leaders from 3000 organizations in 21 countries in over 500 sessions. Since 1980 he has been the President of Springfield Resources, a management consulting firm that services all sized clients on a wide range of maintenance issues.

He has almost 25 years experience in many facets of maintenance including as a process control designer, source equipment inspector, electrician, field service technician, merchant marine worker, manufacturing manager, and property manager. Prior to that Mr. Levitt worked for a CMMS vendor and in manufacturing management.

He is a frequent speaker at maintenance and engineering conferences and has written 6 popular maintenance management texts and chapters of 2 additional reference books. He has also published dozens of articles on the topic. Mr. Levitt has served on the safety board of ANSI, Small Business United, National Family Business Council and on the executive committee of the Miquon School.
He can be reached at [e-mail] or visit www.Maintrainer.com

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding book, February 1, 2010

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I really liked this book and looked forward to reading it every chance I got. It never put me to sleep, like similar related books on the subject have. I found it to be a great introduction to Lean Maintenance while also covering aspects related to RCM, PM, PdM, 5S, and 6sigma. It thouroughly covers the basics of all these topics in relation to Lean. I would recommend this book to be read by all maintenance professionals and people interested in Lean concepts. I will look forward to reading other books books by Levitt and the Industrial Press to see it they meet the standard that this one has set.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent information and interesting read, August 5, 2010

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This book provided excellent information in an interesting manner which keeps it fresh throughout. It was a great introduction to Lean Maintenance principles with good up to date detail about RCM, PM, PdM, 5S, and 6sigma. The book thoroughly covered the basics of all these topics. I positively recommend this book for maintenance professionals and those interested in Lean concepts.