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Benchmarking Best Practices in Maintenance Management
By Terry Wireman, 228 pp., illus., ISBN 0-8311-3168-3
$41.95

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.

Features:

• Provides a clear, concise benchmarking methodology
  
• Clearly explains and interprets the most current maintenance benchmarks.
  
• Contains a benchmarking database from more than 100 companies.
  
• Features current maintenance/asset management philosophies.
  
• Includes a new chapter on benchmarking theory.
  
• Offers more information on self-analysis.

Contents:

• Analyzing Maintenance Management
  
• Benchmarking Fundamentals
  
• Maintenance Organizations
  
• Maintenance Training
  
• Work Flow/Work Order Systems
  
• Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
  
• Preventive Maintenance
  
• Maintenance Inventory and Purchasing
  
• Maintenance Management Reporting and Analysis
  
• World Class Maintenance Management
  
• Integration of Maintenance Management
  
• Benchmarking Best Practices in Maintenance Management.