Complete Guide to Preventive and Predictive Maintenance, 2nd Edition

This best-selling and thoroughly revised reference shares the best practices, victories, essential steps for success, and yes, the mistakes, which Joel Levitt has gleaned from working with countless organizations over a 30-year period. It is the first book to address all four elements essential for success in preventive maintenance systems - engineering, economic, psychological (people), and management - thereby enabling all who use it to have a balanced understanding of what is happening their organizations. Blending concrete actionable steps and structures with the underlying theory, the author has included check sheets, sample task lists, protocols for analysis, as well as stories and case histories. This complete guide will be a practical and invaluable on-the-job resource for maintenance managers, engineers, planners, supervisors, PM group leaders and PM mechanics.

​List of Figures
Usage of Terms
Introduction
Preface

Chapter 1 : The Goal of Maintenance
Chapter 2 : Selling PPM to Management : Battle for a Share of the Mind
Chapter 3 : P/PM Economics
Chapter 4 : Groundwork
Chapter 5 : PM Basics
Chapter 6 : PM Details for Effectiveness
Chapter 7 : Simple Statistics and PM Frequency
Chapter 8 : TPM (Total Productive Maintenance)
Chapter 9 : Iatrogenic Failure
Chapter 10 : Advanced Concepts - PM at the Next Level
Chapter 11 : Predictive Maintenance
Chapter 12 : Chemical and Particle Analysis Predictive Tasks
Chapter 13 : Mechanical Predictive Tasks
Chapter 14 : Energy Related Tasks and Miscellaneous Tasks
Chapter 15 : Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) Approach to PM and PdM
Chapter 16 : Management of PM Activity
Chapter 17 : Using Metrics or KPIs to Manage PM and PdM
Chapter 18 : Outsourcing PM
Chapter 19 : Short Repairs and High Productivity
Chapter 20 : Psychological and Personnel Issues
Chapter 21 : Special Case: PM in Shutdowns and Outages
Chapter 22 : Reliability Enhancement Programs
Chapter 23 : Task List Development
Chapter 24 : Task List Analysis
Chapter 25 : Debugging your PM Program
Chapter 26 : Get it Going Right
Chapter 27 : The Future of P/PM

Appendix A : Glossary of Maintenance Management Terms
Appendix B : Resources
Appendix C : Task List Library
Index

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