Joel Levitt has trained more than 6,000 maintenance leaders from more than 3,000 organizations. Since 1980, he has been the president of Springfield Resources, a management consulting firm that services a variety of clients on a wide range of maintenance www.maintenancetraining.com.
Articles by Joel
Personal issues or sins against quality?
by Joel Levitt
May 10, 2013
Take a lesson from security experts
Intervention and preventive maintenance
by Joel Levitt
April 12, 2013
Techniques to stop the cascade of events
Want to make your meetings more successful?
by Joel Levitt
February 11, 2013
Some simple suggestions for making any meeting more effective.
The management of critical spare parts
by Joel Levitt
December 11, 2012
Do you understand the costs for inventorying these items?
What's the fuss with wrench time?
by Joel Levitt
October 12, 2012
The concept can improve productive maintenance and repair activity
The importance of analyzing failures and successes
by Joel Levitt
August 13, 2012
Insightful questions about causes can bring positive effects
How to dry your hands and save the planet
By Joel Levitt, Fleet Maintenance columnist, and President, Springfield Resources Source: How to dry your hands and save the planet
July 24, 2012
Joe Smith has an interesting calling. The Oregon resident is an...
What type of maintenance operation are you running?
by Joel Levitt
June 13, 2012
Are your actions reactive or intentional?
What are you doing about iatrogenic failures?
by Joel Levitt
May 8, 2012
The probability for them is in every shop
Is ignorance addictive?
by Joel Levitt
April 11, 2012
It depends on the circumstances
Thought about going online for learning maintenance management?
by Joel Levitt
March 12, 2012
Here’s a way to get targeted training with no travel costs
What can we do about the lack of finding qualified technicians?
by Joel Levitt
February 6, 2012
Virtual reality training may help entice a younger generation
Do you know your supervisor’s mode of operation?
by Joel Levitt
December 7, 2011
Active supervision can improve shop productivity
Do your business processes encourage careful work or promote sloppiness?
by Joel Levitt
October 6, 2011
Maintenance as a collection of business processes
Do you know your wrench time?
by Joel Levitt
August 30, 2011
Wrench time is the time a maintenance worker spends with tools working on a...
Is reliability related to worker safety?
by Joel Levitt
May 4, 2011
Sadly, each year, many workers are injured, some fatally, on the job. There...
What’s limiting your shop’s productivity?
by Joel Levitt
March 29, 2011
People can only be as productive as the business (management) system lets...
Technician productivity
by Joel Levitt
March 1, 2011
How on earth do you really measure your technicians’ productivity...
Is PM Like Life?
by Joel Levitt
February 7, 2011
Life can be said to be a challenge and a struggle. Like equipment, humans...
Misconceptions about PM
by Joel Levitt
December 7, 2010
Let's open our eyes
