Joel Levitt, CMRP, CPMM, CRL is a leading trainer of maintenance professionals. He has trained over 17,000 maintenance leaders from 3000 organizations in 39 countries in over 600 sessions. Since 1980 he has been the President of Springfield Resources, a management consulting firm that services all sized clients on a wide range of maintenance issues. He has 35+ years of experience in many facets of maintenance, including as a process control designer, source equipment inspector, electrician, field service technician, merchant marine worker, manufacturing manager, and property manager. Before that, Mr. Levitt worked for a CMMS vendor and in manufacturing management. Levitt was also Director of International projects for LCE and Director of Reliability projects for Reliabilityweb. He is a frequent speaker at maintenance and engineering conferences and has written 13 popular maintenance management texts and chapters of 2 additional reference books. He has also published 200+ articles on the topic. Mr. Levitt has served on the safety board of ANSI, Small Business United, National Family Business Council, and on the executive committee of the Miquon School.He can be reached at JDL@Maintrainer.com or visit www.MaintenanceTraining.comRead more about this authorRead less about this author