Maintenance Work Management

Maintenance work management ("MWM") is the structured process of identifying, prioritizing, planning, scheduling, executing, documenting, closing, and analyzing maintenance tasks such as repairs, inspections, projects, upgrades, and preventive care in order to optimize equipment reliability and minimize downtime.

The process of maintenance work management provides a practical, easy-to-use roadmap for developing, using, and managing industrial maintenance work management processes that will ideally be embraced by all stakeholders in your organization. MWM will manage and sustain your behaviors with the use of understandable, measurable key performance indicators and their proven, quantifiable results. Following the process will help develop your MWM coaches, analyze your current processes, and design, implement, and sustain the six maintenance work management processes:

1. Work identification
2. Work approval
3. Work planning
4. Work scheduling
5. Work execution
6. Work close out

To date, MWM has been the purview of consulting companies, and only affordable by large corporations. To design and implement this process typically takes 6-12 months, and a substantial investment. Maintenance Work Management: Designing, Implementing, and Sustaining the Six MWM Processes makes the process more accessible to all maintenance workers, and serves as a training manual for those working under the direction of a competent subject matter expert.

Unique Features

• Contains industry-accepted MWM structure and key elements to create a process that benefits all stakeholders in an organization.
• Highlights a Maintenance Work Management case study with important sustainability results.
• A "brown paper analysis" helps readers analyze their current maintenance work management process.