Knowledge
Productivity Associates contributes knowledge in Management and Technical to industrial community by codifying and transforming such knowledge from our highly experienced professionals into series of books namely ”Industrial Management and Technical Series” . The series consist of three groups of books designed for , Management, Intermediate / Emerging Management /and Equipment and System Technical. The books are under following groups and titles:

Maintenance - The Profit Maker This is one of the most pioneering books in maintenance area ever published. It is result of more than 40 man-years of working experiences in maintenance. The book pushes maintenance beyond simple or complex technical and brings about awareness of maintenance impact to business performance. Focus of this book challenges maintenance to re-align itself to new idea of how maintenance can bring profit to their companies. It shows how maintenance can assess their own performance by using maintenance indices and identify their room for improvement as well as concept of full cost and maintenance performance budgeting by activity base costing concept.

 

Budgeting for Performance Control Budgeting is always one of the most challenging subjects that every business organization faces. Maintenance is no exception. It is even become harder when it comes to maintenance budgeting. Because it is not only management but also technical issue one must take into account. This book brings about new approach of budgeting by concept of Full Cost and Activity Base Costing. It shows how to derive a performance based budget of any business organization including maintenance by tying action plans to monetary. It also demonstrates how to set up systematic control of the budget.

 

Spare Part Optimization This is a comprehensive supply side management of spare parts. It demonstrates all related topic of stare management, replenishment methods, control indices, and how to realize them.

Manufacturing KPI This book is result of more than 16 years of experience of working in Total Productive Maintenance in manufacturing plant environment. The book demonstrates derivation of Key Performance Indices (KPIs) widely used in manufacturing plants. It not only emphasizes importance of input data to derive each indicator but also demonstrate how to setup working procedure to accommodate it. It also shows how to calculate the indices and how frequently it should be calculated as well as how to interpret the result. Reader will find this book is very fruitful by using the knowledge to improve their productivity effectively.

Efficacy of Maintenance This book is full blown indept exploration of maintenance. It put together all components including demand and supply side management of maintenance, spare parts, cost accounting into perspective. Effecicay of maintenance in form of maturity pyramid is first time ever introduced and explained how it is applied to identify room for improvement of any maintenance organization. Most importantly, it suggests how to close the efficacy gaps. This book paves a road map to maintenance excellence by introducing application of Reliability Engineering and process of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and optimization.