1st Edition
The Maintenance Partnership Relationship The Key to all Successful Asset Management Programs
1. Preparing for Partnership
2. Intra-departmental Partnership Maintenance Peers
3. Intra-departmental Partnership Maintenance and Maintenance Planning/Scheduling Group
4. Inter-departmental Partnership Maintenance, and Production and Operations Group
5. Inter-department Partnership Maintenance and Engineering Group
6. Inter-department Partnership Maintenance and Accounting Group
7. Inter-department Partnership Maintenance and Purchasing Group
8. Inter-department Partnership Maintenance and Human Resources (HR) Group
9. Inter-department Partnership Maintenance and Sales Group
10. External-department Partnership Maintenance and Contract Service Providers
11. External-department Partnership Maintenance and the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)
12. External-department Partnership, Maintenance and Parts Vendor/Suppliers
13. External-department Partnership Maintenance and Auditors
14. Partnering with Technology
Biography
Kenneth E. Bannister is a UK technical apprenticed and accredited mechanical design engineer, credited on several engineering patents, two of which involved tribology aspects in their design. Ken is also a Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional and since 1988 has consulted worldwide helping clients implement practical and meaningful asset management, reliability, and lubrication management programs. Ken is one of a few asset management consultants holding expertise and accreditation in the field of tribology, lubrication failure management and industrial lubrication application as a designated professional Machinery Lubrication Engineer. Ken was the first consultant to assist a company through the ISO 55001 asset management certification process in North America and was part of the development team for the ICML 55® world lubrication standard. More recently Ken was a contributing author and senior editor for the compilation of the ICML 55.0, ICML 55.1, and ICML 55.2 standard documents. The Maintenance Partnership Relationship handbook joins his recently published Practical Lubrication for Industrial Facilities – Fourth Edition lubrication book. Ken also wrote the very successful Lubrication for Industry book, and the lubrication section for the Machinery’s Handbook as well as other books on energy management and predictive maintenance. Over his career, Ken has published over 650 articles and white papers for numerous international maintenance magazines, with over half dedicated to the field of practical lubrication. Ken was a founding board member of the Plant Engineering Maintenance Association of Canada (PEMAC) and currently sits on the board of directors for the International Council for Machinery Lubrication (ICML) responsible for the rollout of the ICML 55® world lubrication standard.
