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NEW YORK…In today's competitive marketplace, the flow of goods and services to customers must not be hindered by obstacles such as maintenance downtime. As many companies are increasing their dependence on automation and decreasing their dependence on labor, they are becoming more dependent on physical assets, which, in turn, are dependent on solid maintenance. To stay on top, managers must implement strategies that keep operations performing at high levels.

What businesses gain by maintaining their physical assets diligently is Uptime -- the capacity to produce and provide goods and services. In Uptime - - Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management - 2nd Edition, authors John D. Campbell and James V. Reyes Picknell provide an updated and expanded version of their still popular first edition. Uptime - 2nd Edition provides successful strategies for maintenance management so companies can expand their ability to produce high quality goods and services quickly, and consistently satisfy their customers.

Uptime - 2nd Edition provides an overall review of what it takes to achieve excellence in manufacturing maintenance - a key business process in any capital intensive industry. It treats this technical topic in an easy to understand format and links it to a variety of seemingly disparate and competing concepts so that a single, simple strategy is formed. Updates from the first edition include current trends in technology, reliability maintenance improvements and the challenges of finding qualified maintenance personnel due to an aging labor force.

Uptime, 2nd Edition:

• Contains a single simple strategy depicted by a pyramid containing 10 components for world class maintenance, arrayed in logical order.
• Draws on the expertise and observation of the authors as maintenance management consultants.
• Includes a number of updates to the original first edition, particularly in its discussion of computerized systems and support tools.

Managers, maintenance and non-maintenance professionals alike will find Uptime - 2nd Edition invaluable. Target industries that will benefit include those with heavy investment in capital assets - - plants, facilities and/or vehicle fleets -- such as: large scrap metal operations; open pit, surface and underground mines; large hospital complexes; Ivy League universities; oil refineries; airlines; thermal and nuclear power generation plants; gas transmission pipelines and stations; electric transmission and distribution networks; fertilizer plants; automotive plants; furniture and office equipment plants; pulp and paper mills; tissue converting plants; sawmills; plywood and engineered wood products plants; asphalt and cement plants.

About the Authors
John D. Campbell was the Partner-in-Charge of Coopers & Lybrand's International Centre of Excellence for Maintenance Management in Toronto, Canada. Previously, he held various plant engineering and management positions in the manufacturing and processing industries. Campbell was a graduate in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science from the University of Toronto.

James V. Reyes-Picknell is founder and president of Conscious Asset Management, a Toronto, Canada-based firm that provides management consulting services in physical asset and maintenance management. Before founding CAM, Reyes-Picknell was already recognized as a leading authority on the Enterprise Asset Management practice of IBM Business Consulting Services. He also worked as a marine engineer in the Canadian Navy and as a specialist machinery engineer with Exxon. He has also co-authored and contributed materials to several books and published numerous articles on maintenance management.

About Productivity Press:

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"This new edition provides a wealth of new knowledge of "what" to do for managers of physical assets and maintenance professionals."

-Normand Champigny, Asset management practice
IBM Business Consulting Services
Canada

"Uptime is a "must read" for anyone with an interest in maximizing the productivity and value of their physical assets. Uptime applies to all physical assets whether they are industrial, facilities or a fleet of vehicles."

-Brian Malloch, President
Plant Engineering and Maintenance Association of Canada

"Jim Reyes-Picknell brings valuable insight to the 2nd Edition of Uptime. He offers innovative ideas, especially in the area of human resource management and team building, to a setting that can really benefit. John Campbell would be delighted."

-Michael G. Currie, Director
Asset Management
Matrikon Inc.

"Over the past thirty years I have read quite a few maintenance management books and Uptime -- Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management is certainly one of the best."

-David A. de Castro, President
Brasman Engenharia
Brazil

"The second edition of Uptime is the most comprehensive overview of the art and science of maintenance management that I have found, and should be required reading for both students and seasoned professionals alike. Those companies that heed the overriding message of the book, namely that maintenance of physical assets is an investment, and not a cost, will be the pace setters of the future."

-Dr. Peter F. Knights, Associate Professor
School of Engineering, The University of Queensland,
Australia

"I would recommend Uptime as essential reading for all managers who are interested in improving their business productivity and for all maintenance personnel involved in the journey to excellence."

-Bob Thiele, Executive General Manager
Business Processes
Placer Dome

"This is a significant and very welcome upgrade to what was already an important standard text. It should be required reading for all maintenance managers and those senior executives who want to understand the contribution of physical asset management to their business success."

-Ben Stevens, President
OMDEC Inc.