Bøger af Joel Levitt

"The Tree of Lives" is the story of my immigrant ancestors and their descendants as they arrived and settled in the Golden Land. Within its pages of histories, photos, documents and family trees are wedding bandleaders and nightclub piano players, a Ballet Master and a mobster and generations of strivers from the streets of Brooklyn. This is their tale, and in many ways the tale of all immigrants, spun with a golden thread.

The key to uptime in manufacturing is managing risk, and Surviving the Spare Parts Crisis describes how to evaluate risk in the inventory. The book shows how the maintenance department can provide better support to purchasing agents and buyers and provides dozens of ideas to properly reduce inventory, reduce usage, and save money.

Contains a specialized glossary so users can more easily understand the specialized language of factory maintenance.Provides specific "how-to" tips and concrete techniques and examples for continuous improvement.Updates the 20 steps to world class maintenance to include the 6 areas of focus for world class maintenance.Includes a completely updated maintenance evaluation questionnaire thatreflects new techniques and technologies.Breaks down and explains the three-team approach to maintenance work.Offers new sections on: managing shutdowns, craft training, and communications.Contains major revisions to the RCM discussion and includes a new discussion about PMO.

Shares the best practices, mistakes, victories, and essential steps for success which the author has gleaned from working with countless organizations. This resource includes check sheets, history of PM, stories, photographs, and case histories. It also provides sample task lists for a variety of equipment with some of the logic behind each task.

Facilities management is a broad-based discipline that calls into play architectural, construction, engineering and management skills, particularly for running and maintaining commercial, institutional, academic, and industrial buildings. This book covers the essential role and responsibilities of the facilities manager.

Offers a fresh look at implementing Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). This book takes into account the economic upheavals and demonstrates that TPM is less about moving maintenance tasks to operations than moving accountability for aggregate output of the plant to operators.