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Lean maintenance repair and overhaul : changing the way you do business /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Srinivasan, Mandyam M. (Author), Bowers, Melissa R. (Author), Gilbert, Kenneth C. (Author)
Corporate Author: McGraw-Hill Companies
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Series:McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
Subjects:
Lean manufacturing.
Industrial equipment > Maintenance and repair > Management.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • The purpose of this book
  • What is unique about this book?
  • Who should read this book
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the authors
  • The mro business opportunity
  • The mro landscape
  • Characterizing the mro process
  • Outsourcing
  • Traditional decision making and the cost world
  • The throughput world perspective
  • The dupont model
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Notes
  • The goal of lean and how lean for mro is different
  • Lean as the enabler of a growth strategy
  • How lean for mro is different
  • Some general guidelines for lean/toc in mro
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Notes
  • Achieving sustained growth in the mro business
  • The ever-flourishing mro organization
  • The toc philosophy
  • Strategy and tactics trees
  • Concluding remarks
  • Appendix 3a: the thinking processes
  • Notes
  • Managing the mro process
  • Mro process and project management
  • Project management with gantt charts and pert/cpm
  • Applying the thinking processes: what to change?
  • Applying the thinking processes: what to change to?
  • Critical chain project management
  • The projects strategy and tactics tree revisited
  • Summary and concluding remarks
  • Notes
  • Enabling flow in an mro environment
  • Creating flow by standing on the shoulders of giants
  • Five focusing steps of toc
  • Policy constraints that hinder flow: the cost world
  • The throughput world: throughput accounting
  • The drum-buffer-rope model
  • Simplified drum-buffer-rope model
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Notes
  • The lean mro toolkit
  • Getting started: value-stream mapping
  • Overview of lean tools
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Notes
  • Managing the back-shops
  • The traditional back-shop
  • Improving back-shop performance
  • Delta airlines: a case study focused on integrating ccpm and s-dbr in engine maintenance
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Notes
  • Making it happen: creating a visual culture for the implementation of lean/toc
  • Visuals and 5s: some examples
  • Summary: a visual culture to eliminate waste and create flow
  • Appendix 8a: the power of visualization
  • Notes.