SMRP || Recommended Reading Lists

SMRPCO has identified the following titles in the People Skills area that it believes will help you to achieve certification in Reliability and Maintenance Management.

These books are available for purchase at either Amazon.com, Bookfinder.com, or the MRO Zone Book Store

Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense, Low Cost Approach to Management Author: M. Imai	Handbook for Productivity Measurement and Improvement Author: William F. Christoher & Carl B. Thor	Implementing TPM: The North American Experience Author: Charles J Robinson & Andrew P. Ginder	Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices Author (s): Ramesh Gulati and Ricky Smith
Making Common Sense Common Practice: Models for Manufacturing Excellence Author: Ron Moore	Managing Performance Improvement Projects: Preparing, Planning, and Implementing Author: Jim Fuller	Performance Measurement for World Class Manufacturing: A Model for American Companies Author: B. Maskell	Serious Incident Prevention Author: Thomas Burns
Successfully Installing TPM in a Non-Japanese Plant Author: Edward H. Hartmann	TPM for Workshop Leaders Author: Kunio Shirose	TPM in Process Industries Author: Tokutaro Suzuki	The Professional's Guide to Maintenance and Reliability Terminology Author: Ramesh Gulati, Jerry Kahn and Robert Baldwin
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Author: Stephen R. Covey

Hard-to-Find Books (click title to launch a Bookfinder.com search)

Title	Author(s)
Challenge of Organizational Change: How Companies Experience It and Leaders Guide It	Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Barry A. Stein
Getting the Job Done: Managing Project Teams and Task Forces for Success	W.A. Randolph
Guide to Quality Control	K. Ishikawa
Handbook of Maintenance Management	Frank Herbaty
How to Build and Manage a Winning Project Team	James P. Lewis
Human Side of Project Management	R. Sizemore House
Introduction to Occupational Health and Safety	Joseph LaDou
Introduction to TPM: Total Productive Maintenance	Seiichi Nakajima
Maintenance Management Techniques	A.S. Corder
Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies	Charles Perrow
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams	T. Demarco
Quality System: A Sourcebook for Managers and Engineers	Frank Caplan
Supervisor's Standard Reference Handbook	W.H. Weiss
TPM for Operators	Kunio Shirose
Training for TPM: A Manufacturing Success Story	Nachi-Fujikoshi Corporation

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