Strategic MRO A Roadmap for Transforming Assets into Competitive Advantage [Hardcover]

Strategic MRO: A Roadmap for Transforming Assets into Competitive Advantagecombines the concepts of enterprise asset management and the associated maintenance, repair, and operating/overhaul (MRO) materials supply chain. It introduces the breakthrough Demand Supply Compression (DSC) methodology, which guides an organization's thinking and doing as it seeks performance improvement. Like Lean, DSC provides a practical path forward by changing a mind frame and the way in which work is performed.

Focused on achieving a future perfect and guided by meaningful principles, organizations will learn to apply compression strategies to drive out waste, time, and non-value adding activities from their strategic MRO practices.

Strategic MROutilizes case studies from a wide variety of businesses to demonstrate strategic MRO practices and implementation — It can be successfully applied to any business where maximizing return on assets is critical to success.

This is much more than a maintenance management or supply chain book because it encompasses both asset management and supply chain practices — Strategic MROwill transform your assets into a strategic advantage.Chapter 1 — MRO: The Strategic Imperative
Chapter 2 — Channel Dynamics
Chapter 3 — Islands of Pain
Chapter 4 — Demand Supply Compression: Guiding Principles
Chapter 5 — Define the Value Stream
Chapter 6 — Connect the Asset to the Value Stream
Chapter 7 — Connect the Demand to the Asset
Chapter 8 — Connect Supply to Demand: Labor
Chapter 9 — Connect Supply to Demand: Materials
Chapter 10 — Information Technology Connectivity
Chapter 11 — Program Management
Chapter 12 — Solution After Next
Index