Lean Maintenance

by Joel Levitt

Written for anyone in a leadership position in maintenance, storeroom or production, this unique book will also be found useful by vendors to the maintenance departments, including maintenance contractors, parts vendors, and various kinds of service providers. As a practical book, Lean Maintenance will take the reader on a journey from uncovering waste, designing projects to address the waste, selling the projects to management and delivering the projects. Every area in maintenance is covered, including your TPM effort, storeroom, PM tasking, work orders and computer systems. What's more, the user will be able to immediately use this book to start the process of saving money, energy, or time within just one hour!

275 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Keith]

This book was a thorough analysis of the application of lean practices to the maintenance enterprise. It begins with theory and then concludes with several chapters walking the reader through the practical application of the prior principles. Two gripes. First, the author tends to use acronyms across several chapters which, for someone like myself whose only maintenance experience is limited to the military, leaves me paging back trying to find where the term was defined. Second, the book is absolutely riddled with hundreds of typos and grammatical errors. I can't count the number of times I had to read a sentence multiple times to figure out what word was typed wrong or dropped or what modifier was unclear because of incorrect punctuation. Good data poorly shared.