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Please use our "Engineering" Discussion Area to recommend articles for this page related to Engineering's involvement in downtime.

Definition of a "Engineering Downtime" is time and resources spent by Engineering Department supporting a downtime occurrence to get equipment running and time and resources spent to reduce number of times down.

Please tell us about articles about Engineering's involvement as it relates to downtime. How the Engineering effectively reduced downtime? What is the cost of the Engineering support for downtime occurrence or reduction? What are the "True" cost of engineering support?

Engineering Articles:

Electrical troubleshooting: 12-step program reduces downtime

Split roller bearings contract to reduce down time, increase savings

Grinding away downtime - Feature Article - Food Engineering

Case packer cuts downtime on critical cookie line

Production Inventory Management - Managing machine spare parts

 


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Mastering the 8-Basics of Kaizen Based Lean Manufacturing (Plant Management)

The Japanese Path to Maintenance Excellence (Maintenance Management)

How to reduce downtime and increase productivity (Maintenance Management)

The Cost of Ignorance (Maintenance Labor)

Information Systems in Fault Diagnosis (a PDF file) - Data Overload

Introduction to Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Part 1 (Maintenance Management)

Another example of using Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

Understanding the Concepts of MRPII / ERP (Data Overload)

Get Lean To Boost Profits (Plant Management)

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) (Maintenance Management)

How To Establish TEEP and OEE Measures (OEE)

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Suggested books:

 

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The Japanese Path To Maintenance Excellence e-Book

by Mike Sondalini 

This e-book is about the Japanese way of doing asset management and maintenance. If you think you already have a good system then you will enjoy reading it as you compare yours and theirs. If you have a poor system then you will get a totally different view of how great maintenance can be done. New! MP3 audio books version available

 
benchmarking manufacturing process based on true down time cost

New! True Down Time Cost Analysis - 2nd Edition

Feed Forward Publications, February 2006, ESBN: F36-047B-2151-10B2

"True Down Time Costs Analysis focus on costing methods and costing techniques that quantify like activities that previously fell under the indirect cost definition, like the hidden cost of outsourcing, warranties, etc. This technique is a must for Engineering management, but also should be applied to piece manufacturing and even other industries."

 
high quality educational Ebooks and CDs specifically aimed at increasing the engineering knowledge of plant operators, maintainers and managers.

Engineering E-books Online - All PDF format so your can print multiple copies for your employees. Titles like CMMS Secrets and more topics like ...

Pumps, Materials Handling, Maintenance, CMMS, Bearings, Process Control, Safety, Utilities, Machinery, Metallurgy & Welding, Plastic and Motors.



Overall Equipment Effectiveness:A Powerful Production/Maintenance Tool for Increased Profits by Robert C. Hansen. Industrial Press; 1st edition (January 15, 2002)

World Class Manufacturing: The Lessons of Simplicity Applied by Richard J. Schonberger. The Free Press. New York 1986.

Total Productive Maintenance, An American Approach by Terry Wireman, Industrial Pr; 1992

Making Common Sense Common Practice: Models for Manufacturing Excellence by Ron Moore, Butterworth-Heinemann; 2002

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox. North River Press, Inc. Great Barrington, MA 1992.

The 5S's: Five Keys To A Total Quality Environment, by Takashi Osada, Asian Productivity Organization, York, 1991.

Quality Maintenance - Zero Defects through Equipment Management, by Seiji Tsuchiya, pub. Productivity Press, Massachusetts, 1992.

The Power of root cause analysis by (by Charles J. Latino, President & Founder of Reliability Center, Inc.)

Managing The Design Factory by Donald G. Reinertsen.

The Quantum Leap... In Speed to Market by John R. Costanza. JcIT Institute of Technology. Colorado 1990

Reengineering the Corporation by Micheal Hammer and James Champy. Harper Business. New York 1993.

Introduction to TPM: Total Productive Maintenance. by Seiichi Nakajima Productivity Press. Cambridge, MA.

Just In Time For America: A Common Sense Production Strategy, by Kenneth A. Wantuck, KWA Media, Southfield MI, 1989.

Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment by William C. Byham, PhD. and Jeff Cox. Dimensional Development Int'l Press. Pittsburg 1989.

Poka-Yoke: Improving Quality by Preventing Defects by Hiroyuki Hirano, edited by Nikkan Kogyo Shimbum, Ltd. Factory Magazine Productivity Pree. Portland, Oregon 1988.

Zero Quality Control: Source Inspection and the Poka-Yoke System. Shigeo Shingo Productivity Press. Cambridge, Mass. 1986.

A Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System. Shigeo Shingo Productivity Press.

Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement by Hitoshi Kume. The Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS).

Total Quality Control by Armand Feigenbaum,  New York: McGraw-Hill 1991.

 
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