World Class Maintenance Management: The 12 Disciplines,Used

What does it take for industries to achieve a level of World Class Maintenance? This book is written to answer that question. While many maintenance people in industries are struggling with the daytoday pressures of doing maintenance as breakdowns are widespread, seem to be uncontrolled, and spreads like wildfire which ends up in soaring the cost of doing maintenance. If your industry is in this condition, then you are not alone and there is a way out.There are 12 Disciplines in World Class Maintenance which the author grouped into three categories which include the Basic Discipline, The Maintenance Strategies, and The Advance Discipline. Each of these disciplines is explained in detail.Some of the interesting highlights of this book include; Why Are Most Industries Reactive? Can Equipment Failures Be Eliminated? The Need for a WorldClass Maintenance Management Basic, Intermediate, and Advance Disciplines How to Make Training Work for your industry Selecting the Right KPIs for maintenance Why OEE Is Not a Perfect Measurement An Inconvenient Truth about Preventive Maintenance Survey on Top Problems in Preventive Maintenance Why Autonomous Maintenance Is Important RCM vs. TPM (which is the Best lb. for lb.) Improvement Strategy Integrating RCM into the TPM Process Why TPM is Hard to Implement My TPM Experience A Successful Failure Why Many Root Cause Initiatives Fail? The Lifeblood of Root Cause Failure Analysis Where Do We End Our Probe in Root Cause Analysis? What Will It take for the Maintenance to Get There? What Does It Take to Change People? And many more.This book is written for every maintenance leader and manager out there who want to improve the way they maintain their equipment and assets reliability to maximize their operations efficiently and effectively where the bottom line is to reduce the cost of doing maintenance. Achieving a WorldClass Maintenance level will not happen overnight, a week, or a month since this is a long time strategy. Reading this book will provide the reader a better understanding and perspective on reaching that level that every industry seeks.The author shares life, pressure, and daytoday struggles of maintenance people in industries in seeking better ways to manage and maintain their equipment and assets. This book contains reallife stories, struggles, and actual experiences of the author as he shares his passion and experience living with the daytoday struggles of doing maintenance.The book is easy to absorb as it is structured into three parts: the Basics, the Strategies, and the Advance Disciplines. The Twelve Disciplines are grouped accordingly into these three parts. This book's message is straightforward since there is no better way to start any maintenance strategy than by going back to the basic discipline which is often ignored. Big problems, unplanned breakdowns, and catastrophic failures are just an accumulation of small problems that have always been ignored and mostly neglected. The author strongly emphasizes the importance operators play in addressing these basic equipment conditions and why these people are very important in any reliability and maintenance strategy. Found out why.