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• Brings together the issues of maintenance planning, project management, logistics, contracting, and accounting for shutdowns
  
• Includes hundreds of shutdown ideas gleaned from experts worldwide.
  
• Contains procedures and strategies that will improve your current shutdown planning and execution.
  
• Offers examples to illustrate the major points.

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Price: $41.44 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Shutdown management is project management of a special kind: managing the repair, replacement or maintenance of critical systems. Manufacturing and process plants, computer systems, airliners, and many other systems must be regularly closed down or taken out of service for planned maintenance operations. This book provides a complete shutdown project planning guide along with a new, detailed model of excellence and step-by-step project guide. In a critical field, this book shows the maintenance manager or project leader how to get the job done correctly.

* Covers all aspects of major maintenance project planning, minimizing downtime and improving maintenance schedules
* Covers projects ranging from weekend overhauls through to complete plant rebuilds
* With detailed checklists and a new step-by-step project guide.
Price: $46.86 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Don't shut down by accident

A carefully planned shutdown will improve your plant's safety and efficiency, while one that "just happens" can be disastrous Developed from the author's highly successful seminars, this book takes you step by step through successfully managing production shutdowns. Identify what must be done, schedule equipment and staff, use project-management software, and save both dollars and downtime.
* Prioritize needs and identify what can be accomplished within time and budget constraints
* Determine whether outside help is required
* Schedule the order and priority of projects
* Learn to use CPM (Critical Path Methods) or PERT (Program Evaluation Review Technique)
* Plan for new or additional work that may arise during a shutdown
* Report and document preparation and execution
* Identify and record future needs the shutdown reveals.
Price: $8.10 [Notify me when price goes down.]