Description

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Uptime describes the combination of activities that deliver fewer breakdowns, improved productive capacity, lower costs, and better environmental performance. The bestselling second edition of Uptime has been used as a textbook on maintenance management in several postsecondary institutions and by many companies as the model framework for their maintenance management programs.

Following in the tradition of its bestselling predecessors, Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management, Third Edition explains how to deal with increasingly complex technologies, such as mobile and cloud computing, to support maintenance departments and set the stage for compliance with international standards for asset management.

This updated edition reflects a far broader and deeper wealth of experience and knowledge. In addition, it restructures its previous model of excellence slightly to align what must be done more closely with how to do it.

The book provides a strategy for developing and executing improvement plans that work well with the new values prevalent in today's workforce. It also explains how you can use seemingly competing improvement tools to complement and enhance each other.

This edition also highlights action you can take to compensate for the gradual loss of skills in the current workforce as "baby boomers" retire.

About the Author

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James V Reyes-Picknell, BASc, CMC., P.Eng., CMRP, CAMA., is the founder and President of Conscious Asset, a Canadian-based consulting and training firm specializing in asset management. He provides business consulting services for our practice in Physical Asset Management in the areas of strategy, process improvement, executive / management coaching, change management and general client advisory. He is a licensed Professional Engineer, certified management consultant (international), certified maintenance and reliability professional (USA), a former RCM2 practitioner, member of the institute of Asset Management and honours graduate of the University of Toronto in Mechanical Engineering. James also studied at the Royal Naval Engineering College in the UK, the Technical University of Nova Scotia and at Dalhousie Universities in Canada. James has extensive years of hands-on experience in engineering, operations, maintenance management, consulting and change management.