Unlike most books that tend to focus on just one of the areas of maintenance, this book looks at all the distinct forms of maintenance including:

• Routine Maintenance
• Turnaround Maintenance
• Program Maintenance
• Project (Maintenance) Management
• Reliability in Maintenance
• Predictive and Preventive Maintenance and
• Precision Maintenance

Rather than simply focusing on “how to get the work done”, this concise resource focuses on Maintenance Excellence and meeting its objectives more effectively and more efficiently.

Uniquely designed for busy people who want and need to learn more about maintenance excellence but have a limited amount of time to do so, each chapter is designed to provide a stand-alone learning opportunity for individuals who have an opportunity to pick the book up over lunch or whenever the opportunity arises.

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Industrial managers absorbing the ideas and procedures presented in this book will be better able to audit for themselves their own maintenance departments, or to specify such audits when they are to be undertaken by external consultants. Such investigations will highlight existing problems and identify their causes – a necessary process before embarking on major organizational or system change.

• Extensive use of case studies.
• Contains a structured questionnaire of over 1,000 questions that is based on the ideas and concepts of business centered maintenance.
• Provides a template for the auditing or maintenance management departments through the aide memoir.

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This handbook shows how to prevent bearing failure, how to avoid replacement and down-time costs, and how to solve bearing failure problems quickly when they do occur - avoiding delayed orders and lost business.

No other handbook covers such a wide range of bearing types and seals, shafts and housing, materials and manufacture. There is no other troubleshooting guide to help technicians and mechanics monitor, mount and dismount, and lubricate correctly.

Rolling Bearings Handbook and Troubleshooting Guide puts the right maintenance and diagnostic procedures at your fingertips.

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As a practical book, Lean Maintenance, will take the reader on a journey from uncovering waste, designing projects to address the waste, selling the projects to management and delivering the projects. Every area in maintenance is covered, including your TPM effort, storeroom, PM tasking, work orders and computer systems. What’s more, the user will be able to immediately use this book to start the process of saving money, energy, or time within just one hour!

• Provides examples at every step of the way to guide the reader.
• Includes forms and check lists for successful Lean projects.
• Offers the reader the ability to design and execute a savings project within a day.

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This text provides an overview of Predictive Maintenance Management (PdM). Descriptions of the 15 most commonly used predictive technologies form the heart of this text. Another 14 less commonly used technologies are described in less detail.

Other subjects covered include the place of PdM in the hierarchy of maintenance, its relationship to major advancements such as Reliability-Centered Maintenance, Total Productive Maintenance and Root Cause Failure Analysis.

Also described are elements of PdM philosophy, analysis methods, program implementation best practices, and means of integration into present day operations and maintenance.

This companion DVD (designed to play on a personal computer) to Jack Nicholas’, Predictive Maintenance Management book, contains narrated web workshops in Flash format and Windows Media Player format (one to match each chapter of the book), MP3 sound files for each lecture which can be played on any iPod or portable audio player and a PDF slide presentation.

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This second edition is the result of over 38 years of hard work and many thousands of hours of writing, testing, retesting, and testing again the alignment related formulas the author has developed on his own. It will make users work much easier and will assist them in making many dollars. It is sure to be valuable to novices and professionals alike!

• Written by a mechanic for mechanics in a mechanic’s language.
• Provides loads of information, common sense tips, and methods and formulas that have been around for decades.
• Offers the “how-to’s”; along with the drawings, the formulas, and mathematical examples that address the “who”, “what”, “when”, “where”, “why”, and “how” in several dozen realistic incidents involving alignment work.
• Features valuable hints, practical tips, comments, and cautionary notes throughout to drive home each point.
• Covers at least 99% of the field alignment problems encountered by most mechanics.

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