Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

Richard D. Palmer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 31, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0070482640 | ISBN-13: 978-0070482647 | Edition: 1

* This guide enables facilities manages to dramatically improve the productivity of their maintenance plan
* Clearly identifies the six basic principles of planning and the six associated principles of scheduling
* Provides how-to information on implementing a planning function, using work orders, and performing in-house work sampling

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From the Back Cover

Ensure Productivity-Boosting Standards in Any Organization - With the First How-To Maintenance Planning Guide. Talk to any maintenance manager or plant manager, and they can tell you that planning and scheduling is critical to effective maintenance. Yet how many of them can name a ready-to-use, nuts-and-bolts guide that goes beyond theory, demonstrating how planning fits into maintenance, what principles make it work, and exactly how planning is done? The Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook is the one-and-only resource that covers all this, and more. Defining "planning" as the preparatory work given to individual maintenance work orders before assigning them to specific craft persons, this never-before-available resource explains how work order planning leads to increased crew productivity-and greater overall effectiveness in just about any area of an organization's maintenance. The Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook includes: The 6 Principles of planning; The 6 principles of scheduling; Extensive example work scenarios that illustrate each of these principles; Strategies for increasing your workforce without hiring-by implementing a new maintenance planning group or redirecting an existing one; A highly useful procedure for conducting an in-house productivity study; Appendixes that summarize key concepts, identify suppliers, show complete examplet work studies and planned work orders, and provide other valuable reference sources.

About the Author

Richard D. Palmer, PE, MBA, better known as Doc Palmer, with this handbook bridges the significant gap between the well-publicized benefits of maintenance planning and the achievement of the benefits in actual practice. Doc Palmer has more than 23 years of industrial experience with the past 17 directly in a maintenance role. He also has a master's degree in business from the University of North Florida and a degree in engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. In addition, he holds a professional engineering license in the State of Florida. This maintenance background with a technical and business education gives him a unique perspective on the maintenance environment and challenges. As an actual practitioner within a company's maintenance organization, he recognized and developed the necessary principles, and then led the grassroots' establishment of a successful planning program. Doc Palmer is the author of numerous well-received articles and presentations and is a recognized authority on the establishment of successful maintenance planning. He is also a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional. Doc Palmer works in the maintenance department of an electric company and lives in Neptune Beach, Florida with his wife, Nancy, and two daughters, Abby and Brittany. Visit McGraw-Hill Education at www. books.mcgraw-hill.com --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 544 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (March 31, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070482640
• ISBN-13: 978-0070482647
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,532,973 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bound to be a Classic for Maintenance Excellence!!!, October 22, 1999

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Dale R. Ekmark, Chief Maintenance Engineer, C... (Minnesota, Michigan, Labrador, and Quebec) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook (Hardcover)

Doc Palmer is the first author to really write a handbook for the people responsible for making Maintenance Excellence a reality. It is a must for every planner, scheduler and maintenance manager. We are using this book as a textbook for our Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Seminars at all of our North American Iron Ore Mining and Processing Facilities.

I highly recommend it to anyone responsible for managing and improving maintenance effectiveness.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for anyone responsible for maintenance, October 21, 1999

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Anthony V. Covato PE (acovato@alleghenyenergy... (Masontown, Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook (Hardcover)

Excellent book for anyone considering the implementation of a computerized maintenance system. Not only stresses the need for a sound planning and scheduling process but actually provides the nuts and bolts of how to do it. Its obvious the author, Doc Palmer has a handle of whats needed to be successful as the manager of large maintenance force. I would really recommend this book to anyone involved in the maintenance of a power station.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book in the subject., January 17, 2000

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Ernesto Botero (Bogotá Colombia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook (Hardcover)

Mr. Palmer has written the best book in its class and very hard to surpass. He exhausted the matter. He has a very clear and complete idea about what Maintenance Planning and Scheduling is, what is very hard to find in the industrial word of today.It is not not other book about planning and scheduling. !Is the book about the subject !