Fundamentals of Preventive Maintenance

by John M. Gross

This helpful resource provides you with an easy-to-follow, economically sensible maintenance and workorder management program.

Plant engineers and maintenance managers know from 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.

Designed to transform an often-unwieldy program into one that can be effectively managed, this book provides hands-on techniques  

Establishing critical scheduling protocolsManaging the daily workorder scheduleDeveloping and issuing preventive maintenance workordersMonitoring the program and making improvementsFundamentals of Preventive Maintenance outlines a 7-step process for designing and implementing the program, describing what needs to be done -- and why.

Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[James]

A great primer on preventive maintenance and how to get your plant's equipment management into shape! I feel this is the preparatory system for TPM to actually work, instead of just jumping into it. Now if I could only get maintenance to listen and apply the plan!

[Yosef Shapiro]

Has some good information as well as some tmplates that can be used as is or modified.