Table of Contents

Already a hero; Vocabulary of stores and inventory; Vision and what are we really doing?; Modern production gives us the tools for maintenance planning; POV impacts how people view the storeroom; Misalignment of accountability and realignment of accountability; Common comments about good and bad stockrooms; How well do you know your current operation?; Spare Parts Inventory: An Exercise in Risk Management; Is the maintenance inventory a completely different kinds of entity?; Maintenance policy leads to the stocking policy; The big picture: Where the warehouse fits in with purchasing, accounting, and traffic; Storeroom management; Computerization; The physical stockroom; Weird economic anomaly; The economic stockroom; SIC (Statistic Inventory Control); Maintenance impact on inventory; Dealing with the part itself; Parts as a business; Remanufacture versus replacement; Component rebuilding; Metrics and KPIs for the maintenance warehouse; Bright future for the spares business.

About the Author

Joel Levitt is known worldwide as a leading educator in maintenance management. He has trained more than 17,000 maintenance professionals from thousands of organizations in 25 countries. He has more than 30 years of experience in many facets of maintenance. Since 1980, he has been president of Springfield Resources, a management/consulting firm servicing clients on a wide range of maintenance issues. Levitt is a frequent speaker at maintenance and engineering conferences, has published dozens of articles on the subject, as well as a number of successful books, including The Complete Guide to Preventive and Predictive Maintenance;The Handbook of Maintenance Management;Lean Maintenance; Managing Factory Maintenance: and Managing Maintenance Shutdowns and Outages.