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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

There are two big channels of knowledge in my maintenance management consulting career. One major channel is the hundreds of discussions with the thousands of maintenance and storeroom professionals who have attended my classes. I have heard their triumphs and felt their pain. Thank you all for that generous sharing.

The second channel comes from the other consultants who have trained me to look at the world in specific and useful ways.

A big shout out to my Life Cycle Engineering colleagues, particularly Wally Wilson, from whom I have learned a great deal. LCE is one of the giants of the field and I’m very happy to have been associated with them. A shout-out to Terrence O’Hanlon, whose Uptime Elements gives a structure for reliability leadership.

Denny Hydrick, past president of the Association for Facilities Engineering (AFE) and retired maintenance manager at Lockheed, read the manuscript and made many useful suggestions. John from Australia, who remains anonymous, helped me by reading the manuscript and discussing real life parts and inventory issues.

Without Phillip Slater’s support and collaboration, this book would have never occurred in this form. Phillip’s several books on these issues were good guides to the field. Dr. Mark Goldstein, whose roots go back to the early IBM mainframes, has many unique ideas about managing maintenance inventories that I have absorbed by osmosis. Jay Butler shared his understanding of the truck fleet spares needs.

Finally, Mike Brown, President of New Standard Institute, was instrumental in training me on issues involving production and process industry spare parts and letting me present his Inventory Management class.

Finally I would be nowhere without the team at Industrial Press, with Robert Weinstein, my intrepid editor (without whose expertise the book wouldn’t have been so understandable); Janet Romano, the production and art director who makes it all look good and somehow puts up with the images I provide; and, last but not least, Judy Bass the acquisitions editor who saw something in this work and pushed it through several hurdles.

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