Maximize Your Plant Maintenance with SAP [Hardcover]

John Hoke (Author), Lorri Craig (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 15, 2008

This must-have guide teaches you how to make the most of SAP Plant Maintenance (PM). Learn how to use SAP from a maintenance perspective, and how to align SAP PM functions with your own workflow. In addition, discover the power of SAP PM and how to use it with your own best practices.

The authors break plant maintenance down into three key areas: building best practices with the right people, making sure the SAP configuration matches the company s best practices, and measuring SAP PM success. The book also provides explanations of the key obstacles to a successful plant maintenance implementation and presents solutions for each. In addition, it explores topics such as organizational preparation and focus, common configuration and implementation issues, and the information systems of plant maintenance. Throughout this comprehensive reference book, you ll find useful, real-world examples that demonstrate the topics at hand. This is the one resource you need to understand how to approach SAP PM according to your own maintenance best practices.

Highlights:

• Intoduction to Plant Maintenance and SAP PM
• Plant Maintenance Education
• Successful SAP PM Techniques
• Technical Object Structure Functionality
• Capturing Reliability History Planning, Execution, and Improvement of Maintenance Work
• Preventative Maintenance Strategy
• SAP Plant Maintenance Data
• Plant Maintenance Performance Health

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About the Author

John Hoke started Reliability Solutions, Inc. in 2003, and leads the SAP PM and Maintenance Consulting and Assessment Processes, while supporting the SAP Training Efforts. Lorri Craig joined Reliability Solutions, Inc. in 2004, and focuses on training practices using SAP PM. Lorri is responsible for the Training Development and Delivery, and supports the SAP PM Consulting and Assessment Processes.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 367 pages
• Publisher: SAP PRESS, 1st edition; 1st edition (October 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592292151
• ISBN-13: 978-1592292158
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #691,993 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Basic Maintenance Philosophy for SAP PM, January 25, 2011

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SAP PM Consultant - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maximize Your Plant Maintenance with SAP (Hardcover)

I've been implementing SAP Plant Maintenance for about 10 years across a variety of industries. I found this book remarkably helpful and insightful in terms of getting my client's maintenance philosophy "fixed" and directed in a better way. Not all clients have fundamental maintenance management problems, but many do. And when they do, it makes implementing SAP a real nightmare. Having this book really helps put forward a philosophical and basic management platform for companies struggling to understand how to leverage SAP PM. I've found that some folks in upper management have never gotten their "hands dirty" and "turned a wrench" and, as a result, they lack a more practical understanding of maintenance philosophy. Perhaps the book would have been better titled "basic maintenance philosophy with SAP"...regardless, I've found this book very helpful in that respect. I did not expect a technical guide (as that is what the Liebstuckle books are for...) and, as a result, seem to have found the book significantly more useful than the first reviewer. I doubt there were any more editing problems than any other SAP Press book and I'll happily keep this one on my shelf. I would recommend it for folks preparing to use SAP PM for the first time or folks new to SAP PM struggling with how to better apply it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Less talk, more action please, December 18, 2010

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Jack Ladd (NZ) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Maximize Your Plant Maintenance with SAP (Hardcover)

Oh dear, another book in the SAP series that does not quite do what you expected.

I took this book literally by its title and expected it to be full of hard earned lessons in the use of SAP plant maintenance. Instead I seem to have got the authors' philosophical views on engineering (a sort of "zen and the art of plant maintenance"), business speak and poor editing.

Having spent some forty years in engineering of which twenty five involved getting my hands dirty I have to wonder how much wrench turning the authors have actually done. None I suspect. The authors mention the age of maintenance people and the language in this book does little to engage people of my era, who just so happen to make up the majority of the people still getting their hands dirty for a living.

If I had put some of the grammar in this book in front of my primary school teachers I would have been cracked on the knuckles with a whippy ruler. It runs like a cart with one square wheel, or more correctly, a wheel with four flat spots at ninety degrees to each other. Some of it is just plain awful. All this aside there is some useful information in here but a lot of it can also be found in the SAP help sections of plant maintenance.

I was looking for tricks of the trade, as we say in the trades, and they are simply not there.

And if my primary school teachers had reviewed this book they would have written across the last page, in red ink, "John and Lorri can do better".