Managing Maintenance Resources

Maintenance insight enables better management judgments. This book equips you to meet the maintenance challenge with proven tools and the hard-won experience of others

Anthony Kelly (Author)

9780750669931, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 10 May 2006

312 pages, Approx. 200 illustrations
24.4 x 17.1 x 2 cm, 0.68 kg

"The book provides a unique approach to modeling maintenance-production organizations. It enables the identification of problems and delivers guidelines to develop effective solutions. The book is one of three standalone volumes on maintenance management." --IE Industrial Engineer, Norcross, GA December 2006

Managing Maintenance Resources shows how to reduce the complexity involved in engineering, or re-engineering, a maintenance organization. It recognises that this is a complex problem involving many inter-related decisions – such as whether or not resources should be centralized, contractor alliances be entered into or flexible working be adopted. This book provides a unique approach to modeling maintenance-production organizations. It enables the identification of problems and delivers guidelines to develop effective solutions. This is one of three stand-alone volumes designed to provide maintenance professionals in any sector with a better understanding of maintenance management, enabling the identification of problems and the delivery of effective solutions.

Maintenance organization in outline
The maintenance workload
Maintenance resource structuring
Maintenance administrative structuring
Human factors in maintenance management
Trends in maintenance organization
Case study 1: “Moving with the times.?
Case studies 2 and 3: “Cautionary tales of organization change.?
Case study 4: “Reorganization of a mineral extraction organization.?
Case study 5: “The do’s and don’ts of maintenance teams.?
Total productive maintenance, its uses and limitations
Practical exercises in Maintenance Organization

Subject Areas: Engineering: general [TBC], Production & quality control management [KJMV5], Management of real estate, property & plant [KJMV4], Management of specific areas [KJMV]