World Class Maintenance Management: The 12 Disciplines

If you have been living the day-to-day pressures and struggles of doing maintenance, then this is definitely a book for you.  The life of a maintenance human being is typically a struggle, as most industries end up being reactive all the time.  This is the first of a series of books I wrote and still writing about the 12 disciplines of maintenance.  Some highlights of this book include.



- Why Are Most Industries Reactive?

- Can Equipment Failures Be Eliminated?

- The Need for a World-Class Maintenance Management

- Basic, Intermediate, and Advance Disciplines 

- How to Make Training Work for your industry

- Selecting the Right KPI's for maintenance

- Why OEE Is Not a Perfect Measurement

- An Inconvenient Truth about Preventive Maintenance

- Survey on Top Problems on 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 does Will It take for the Maintenance to Get There?

- What Does It Take to Change People?  And many more.  



As borrowing from my dear friend Keith Mobley's words that 17%of maintenance problems are maintenance induced or simply done by maintenance, 83%of maintenance problems are not induced by maintenance and come from other areas/departments of your organization.  You may consider your industry to have a world-class quality product, a world-class service, a world-class safety, or you can declare that your industry has world-class facilities, but speaking about world-class maintenance is a different story and only a few companies ever reach this stage. While many industries will try, only the thoroughbred will succeed.  This book is for every maintenance out there who wants to improve their equipment and assets' Reliability to optimize their operations and dramatically reduce maintenance costs. Let me be honest with you, achieving world-class maintenance will not happen overnight, a week, a month, or even a year. It will take time, but it is not impossible. Read this book. It will provide you a better understanding and perspective on reaching that level that every industry seeks. This book depicts the life and struggles of maintenance in seeking better ways to manage and maintain their equipment and assets.  The author shares his passion and experience about the day-to-day struggles in a maintenance life.  Interestingly, the author and his book are that even though he hails from the Philippines, the problems, issues, and struggles we face in maintenance are generic and can be felt by any industry from whatever place, race, and culture. This book contains real-life stories, struggles, and actual experiences by the author in his maintenance and current Reliability and Maintenance Consultant career.

 

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. Maintenance often time seeks advanced ways in dealing with their everyday problems and issues.  This book's message is simple and straightforward that there is no better way to start by going back to the "Basics" and addressing these very small problems we have in our plant. Big problems, unplanned breakdowns, and catastrophic failures are just an accumulation of small problems that have always been ignored and most neglected in the first place. The author strongly emphasizes the importance operators play in addressing these basic equipment conditions.