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Maximize Your Plant Maintenance with SAP

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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.

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".