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Maintenance Strategy
Maintenance Strategy Series Volume 1

For over three decades, Terry Wireman has specialized in the improvement of maintenance and reliability. As an international expert in maintenance management, he has assisted hundreds of clients in North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim to improve their maintenance effectiveness. Through a new 10-volume Maintenance Strategy series, the author makes his expertise in the field accessible to industrial and facility organizations everywhere.

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Maintenance Strategy
Maintenance Strategy Series Volume 2

For over three decades, Terry Wireman has specialized in the improvement of maintenance and reliability. As an international expert in maintenance management, he has assisted hundreds of clients in North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim to improve their maintenance effectiveness. Through a new 10-volume Maintenance Strategy series, the author makes his expertise in the field accessible to industrial and facility organizations everywhere.

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Maintenance Strategy
Maintenance Strategy Series Volume 3

For over three decades, Terry Wireman has specialized in the improvement of maintenance and reliability. As an international expert in maintenance management, he has assisted hundreds of clients in North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim to improve their maintenance effectiveness. Through a new 10-volume Maintenance Strategy series, the author makes his expertise in the field accessible to industrial and facility organizations everywhere.

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Benchmarking Best Practices in Maintenance Management
Benchmarking Best Practices in Maintenance Management

As the only reference that provides vital information in a concise and easy-to-use format, Benchmarking Best Practices in Maintenance Management will provide users with all the necessary tools to be successful in benchmarking maintenance management. As a revision of the author's previously successful resource, World Class Maintenance Management, it presents a logical, step-by-step methodology that will enable a company to conduct a cost-effective benchmarking effort. It presents an overview of the benchmarking process, a self analysis, and a database of the results of more than 100 companies that have used the analysis.

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Preventive Maintenance
Preventive Maintenance

This practical and comprehensive reference presents a balanced view of preventive maintenance in the context of other components of a maintenance strategy. Preventive Maintenance begins with an overview of how the preventive maintenance program fits in an overall maintenance/asset management strategy and progresses to how to gain executive commitment, both from a financial and organizational perspective. It concludes with the eight common reasons why PM programs fail and how to overcome each of the potential failures. Maintenance and reliability professionals who need to develop a comprehensive and effective preventive maintenance program will find it very useful.

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Total Productive Maintenance
Total Productive Maintenance

Completely revised and updated, this new edition of a classic reference focuses on the financial approach to the subject and methodology that produces quantifiable results allowing a TPM program to be sustainable. In addition to clarifying what TPM is and what it is not, it clearly presents the economic value of TPM and shows how to calculate the Return on Investment (ROI) that a company can expect. It is the perfect resource for anyone who is considering implementing TPM or looking for ways of improving their current process.

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Maintenance Management and Regulatory Compliance
Maintenance Management and Regulatory Compliance

Maintenance Management and Regulatory Compliance Strategies is a unique reference designed to create awareness as to how important an effective maintenance management strategy is to supporting the regulatory requirements faced by each company today. It highlights the regulatory agencies and their requirements in the context of how they impact the maintenance management function within a company. It begins with an overview of a comprehensive maintenance strategy and in subsequent chapters it examines each of the main regulatory agencies and their requirements for the maintenance function within a company. Anyone in the industry responsible for maintenance programs and those responsible for regulatory compliance issues for their companies will benefit from this guide.

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Developing Performance Indicators for Managing Maintenance
Developing Performance Indicators for Managing Maintenance

Developing Performance Indicators for Managing Maintenance is designed to provide the key details on how to measure and improve one of the most important functions in an organization today: Equipment or Asset Maintenance Management. As one of only a handful of comprehensive collections of performance indicators for managing maintenance in print today, this book is distinguished by its use of techniques based on a variety of management measurement systems, such as the Balanced Scorecard approach. While the previous edition primarily concentrated on the basic indicators for managing maintenance and how to link them to a company's financials, this new edition goes further by also addressing recent advancements in the management of maintenance. This book is an invaluable tool for any company that wants to effectively measure and manage the entire spectrum of maintenance activities to help achieve competitive advantage. Such companies view maintenance as a way to reduce costs of producing their product or providing their services and are intent on using this cost advantage to lower prices, improve profit margins, and improve shareholder value.

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CMMS
CMMS

The extensively revised second edition of Terry Wireman's landmark introduction to CMMS has been written to assist anyone investigating the possibility of using a computer in the maintenance function. It provides the information needed to successfully evaluate, select and implement a system. It enables readers unfamiliar with the earlier book to discover how progressive companies are using computer programs to achieve cost reduction and control the maintenance of any facility.

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Zero Breakdowns
Zero Breakdowns

Zero Breakdown Strategies was written to assist companies, regardless of the type of industry or facility, to develop asset (equipment) management policies which, when properly implemented, will virtually eliminate asset (equipment) malfunctions or breakdowns. The first section of the book is a complete guide to the basic functions of each major type of mechanical and fluid power system component. The second section provides a detailed five-step process for implementing the Zero Breakdown Strategies program. Comprehensive troubleshooting procedures are contained in the concluding Appendices.

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Vesta Partners Service Offerings:

SAP for EAM >
  • Project Readiness Review
  • System Analysis
  • Full EAM Project Services
  • Planning and Scheduling Improvements
  • SAP Release Delta Workshops
  • Third Party Solution Support
  • SAP Maintenance Training Workshops
Maintenance as a Business >
  • Core Maintenance Assessment
  • Benchmarking Best Practices
  • EAM System Readiness
  • Financial Optimization
  • Inventory and Stores
  • Key Performance Indicators
  • Maintenance Functional Processes
  • OEE Baseline Assessment
  • Organizational Structure
  • Preventive Maintenance
  • ROI Determination
  • System Utilization Review
  • Work Order Process
Integration & Intelligence >
  • MII
  • RCMO
  • Business Intelligence
  • Maintenance Assignment and Scheduling
  • User Experience

> 40%

A recent survey showed less than 40% of it's respondents offer formalized CMMS training for new employees.

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