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Please use our "Maintenance Labor" Discussion Area to recommend articles for this page related to Maintenance Labor in downtime.

Definition of a "Maintenance Labor Cost" is the labor part of maintenance cost for all maintenance personnel involved in downtime occurrence. These are  labor cost  for in-house maintenance cost only. Cost associated with Contactors, OEM, machine shops etc. will be covered in the "Downtime/OEM category. With maintenance cost being 30-50 percent of the production cost, there is a substantial staff supporting those one or two who maintenance men/women who actually do the machine repair.

Please tell us your stories about how you reduced Maintenance cost associated with Maintenance Labor for a particular breakdown. Tell us about maintenance articles that inform of ways to reduce Maintenance Labor Cost, but are not selling a product. Like Maintenance Cost articles that demonstrate indirect maintenance labor like the maintenance manager, maintenance foreman, parts person, set-up person, pm person, etc., and others that may work primarily for maintenance.

Maintenance Labor Articles:

The Cost of Ignorance

Preventive Maintenance cost savings case examples

CMMS Metrics

How to reduce downtime and increase productivity

Comparing Maintenance Costs of Geothermal Heat Pump Systems with other HVAC Systems

Utilizing world class Maintenance Systems

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

 


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

The Japanese Path to Maintenance Excellence (Maintenance Management)

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)

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 Maintenance Labor 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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