Managing Productive Maintenance - 2nd Ed.

Businesses are true treasure islands where there are still many riches to explore. Improving equipment reliability management will certainly help to unearth these treasures, bringing significant gains in safety, productivity, quality, cost and integrity of the environment.
 The book presents the best practices of the best companies in the world that use equipment and facilities. Operation and maintenance managers from various types of organizations will find here practical and detailed guidance on how to achieve the best results in operational reliability, raising the level of performance of their companies with unprecedented availability and cost results.
 As leader of the group of consultants in the maintenance area of Prof. Falconi, Harilaus Xenos has worked directly with Japanese experts from JUSE (Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers) and JODC (Japan Overseas Development Corporation) for more than three years, conducting results improvement projects in more than a dozen companies. The partnership resulted in the publication of this book, which has since been adopted by companies, schools and professional associations as an essential guide in improving the use of production assets.