Lean Maintenance Repair and Overhaul - 9780071789943

Proven strategies for realizing quantum leaps in MRO productivity improvements and profits

Lean Maintenance Repair and Overhaul presents the key concepts and principles for managing MRO practices using cutting-edge process improvement techniques. The book stresses systems thinking, and uniquely integrates two management philosophies: Theory of Constraints (TOC) and Lean, illustrating how they complement and reinforce each other to leverage the MRO activity and therefore improve the organization’s bottom line. You’ll learn how to apply basic principles from TOC to significantly increase the profitability of your organization.

Lean Maintenance Repair and Overhaul reveals how to:

• Develop win-win solutions that benefit the organization and its supply chain partners
• Implement Lean thinking in conjunction with throughput accounting to offer better value to customers at the right price
• Eliminate waste from the organization’s value stream
• Improve quality and create better flow in the MRO process