TABLE OF CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

      Dedication

      Foreword

       Introduction to Lean Maintenance

      1.Distinguishing Lean from Everything Else

2.Is There a Right and Wrong Way to Lean?

3.Economics

4.Lean Maintenance and World Class Maintenance

5.Lean Workers

       6.Lean Maintenance and Safety

       7.Lean Organizations and Maintenance Support

       8.Lean Maintenance Parts and Storerooms

       9.Lean Maintenance and the Work Order System

       10.Lean and the Use of the CMMS to Uncover Waste

       11.Enabling Technology for Lean Maintenance

       12.Lean Planning and Scheduling

       13.Lean Shutdowns, Outages and Turnarounds

       14.Lean Fire-Fighting

       15.Lean PM

       16.TPM and Lean Maintenance

       17.Quality

       18.Contribution of 5S to Lean Maintenance

       19.The Lean Machine

       20.RCM and Lean Maintenance

       21.Lean and RCA (Root Cause Analysis)

       22.Lean Outsourcing

       23.Some Lean Tools

       24.Where and How to Look for Waste

       25.Lean Utilities

       26.Translating Lists into Projects

       27.Unintended Consequences

       28.Lean Projects: Organizational Impact

       29.Once a Lean Project has been Chosen for Refinement

       30.Micro-Planning

       31.Execution

       32.Putting the Finishing Touches on the Presentation

       33.Publishing Lean Projects

       34.How a School District could Save $1,000,000 in O & M Costs and Improve Service!

       Bibliography

       Glossary

       Index

DEDICATION

      The author has had the profound privilege over the last 22 years to work with maintenance individuals and their organizations that fight to do the right thing for their employees, customers, communities, and the environment. While no one knows what they do but themselves, they do the right thing, even in the middle of the night. Even when others in the company are yelling to cut corners, these men and women take the heat and do the right thing.

      It is to these people that this work is dedicated. The prayer might be, may we all measure up to their integrity and aspire to attain their stature. The damnedest thing is that they don’t even know how important they are and no one thanks them. Well, thanks to all of them and thanks to you if you are one of them.

      Our guiding light is Benjamin Franklin. He was the first American to make a living from thinking about and publishing Lean ideas.

       Joel Levitt2008

FOREWORD

      I don’t think anyone would deny that humanity has gotten the world into a pickle. As maintenance professionals, the question is, what contributions can we make to do our part to change things for the better? The question of this work is what is the contribution of maintenance to the world? That is a big and sometimes uncomfortable question.

      Can better maintenance practices save