Fundamentals of Preventive Maintenance

  • 2h
  • John M. Gross
  • AMACOM
  • 2002

As a facility professional, you know from experience that equipment seems to break down at the worst possible moment. To head off these costly disruptions, your company needs a systematic, economically viable preventive-maintenance program.

Fundamentals of Preventive Maintenance provides readers with an easy-to-follow fiscally sensible maintenance and work-order management program. This results-driven guidebook outlines a 7-step process for designing and implementing the program, describing what needs to be done when—and why. Designed to transform unwieldy PM programs into manageable and cost-effective initiatives, Fundamentals of Preventive Maintenance provides hands-on techniques for:

  • Establishing critical scheduling protocols
  • Managing the daily work-order schedule
  • Developing and issuing preventive-maintenance work orders
  • Monitoring the program and making improvements

Your properly designed, carefully followed maintenance regime will pay immediate dividends in the form of cost savings and faster work-order completion, and the repeatable, scalable processes ensure that the program, like good equipment, will keep running smoothly well into the future.

About the Author

John M. Gross is a licensed professional engineer, a Six Sigma Black Belt, an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, and an AFE Certified Plant Engineer. After seven years with the U.S. Air Force, he joined private industry. He has held several engineering and business positions in the food and automotive industries. His articles on the subject of productivity have been published in trade magazines around the world.

In this Book

  • Getting Started
  • Establishing Scheduling
  • Breaking Your Facility into Logical Parts
  • Developing an Equipment List
  • Writing PMs
  • Developing Equipment Manuals
  • Setting up Inventory
  • Maintaining the System
  • Planning for Success
  • Conclusion

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