Preventive Maintenance Made Simple

About this title

How many times have you heard that you need to simplify or optimize your preventive maintenance (PM) program? Preventive Maintenance Made Simple is written for most maintenance reliability leaders and engineers who are looking for ideas to improve, optimize and rationalize their current PM program. The book includes processes and components that, when combined and implemented into a struggling PM program, would bring immediate improvements to said program.

Acerca del Autor - Doug Stangier and Ricky Smith

Doug Stangier is an electrician by trade and has been in the maintenance field for 20-plus years. He has been in maintenance management and reliability roles for the past 10-plus years. He has a variety of industrial and commercial experience and shares a passion with his coauthor for improving the maintenance reliability processes and the struggles that those who work in the industry face. Doug also holds Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) and Certified Reliability Leader (CRL) certifications, as well as being a certified Project Manager and Six Sigma Green Belt.

Doug is currently in a maintenance manager role within the forest products industry for Weyerhaeuser at one of its oriented strand board (OSB) manufacturing facilities in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Ricky Smith is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) and a certification test proctor, as well as a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Technician (CMRT) certified by the Society for Maintenance and Re-liability Professionals (SMRP). He also holds a Certified Plant Maintenance Manager (CPMM) Certification by the Association for Facilities Engineering (AFE) and is a Certified Reliability Leader (CRL) by the Association of Asset Management Professionals (AMP).