Plain reference for running a small plant

The subject index

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1. Maintenance Preventive schedules and downtime tracking for older equipment.
2. Quality Inspection plans and tracing a defect back to where it started.
3. Production planning Scheduling around real orders and the changeover time they cost.
4. Plant software Planning, maintenance and shop-floor systems, and what it takes to get a plant using them.

Floor reference

Reference for the supervisors and managers who keep a small plant running: checklists, a glossary and plain guides. The numbers in the examples are made up, so you can redo each calculation with your own.

• Field checklist

  Preventive maintenance checklist for plant equipment

  A shift, weekly, monthly and yearly task list to adapt to your own machines, with notes on lockout and records.

• Field glossary

  Plant floor glossary: maintenance and production terms

  Short, plain definitions of the terms used in maintenance, quality and scheduling conversations.

• Field guide

  OEE explained: formula, worked example, common errors

  The OEE formula, a shift worked through with made-up numbers, and the mistakes that make the number misleading.

• Field reference

  Shift handover notes: what to record and how

  The sections of a good handover note, what goes in each, and sample entries you can copy the style of.

• Working rules

  About our notes: how Shop Floor Notes is written

  How we write, what we will and will not publish, and how corrections work.

• Field calculator

  OEE calculator for a machine or production line

  Work out availability, performance, quality and OEE from one shift's numbers.

See the whole Floor reference