World Class Maintenance Management

About This Book:

This book on World Class Maintenance Management - The 12 Disciplines depicts the life, pressure and struggles of maintenance in seeking better ways and means in improving how they manage and maintain their equipment and assets in their industry. The Author shares his passion and experience about the day to day struggles in the life of a maintenance. Industries are looking for better ways on how to do the correct maintenance on their equipment and assets.  I wrote this book because I believe with all my heart and experience that every maintenance from industries should understand that not all they we do on maintenance is right and that we need to change our paradigm in order to achieve a World Class Maintenance Management level.  Most industries use the traditional concept of Preventive Maintenance realizing that they end up with more failures and breakdowns on their equipment.  This book will tell you why.  Some of the main highlights of this book includes: 

• RCM vs TPM which is the best lb for lb maintenance improvement strategy


• An Inconvenient Truth About Preventive Maintenance


• Survey on Top 10 Problems on Preventive Maintenance


• Where Do We End Our Probe on Root Cause Failure Analysis


• Is OEE a Perfect Measurement?


• 3 Levels of Oil Analysis Test


• Can We Really Eliminate Breakdowns on Our Equipment?


• Patterns of Failure, Types of Failure, Occurrences of Failures, Classification of Failures


• What are the 12 Disciplines of Maintenance Management


• Why CMMS Should be the Last Maintenance Discipline to be Adopted?


• The Lifeblood of Root Cause Failure Analysis


• Implementing the 12 Disciplines of World Class Maintenance Management


• What Does It Take to Change Peopl?


• Life Cycle Management - Why Cheap is Actually Expensive in the Long Run


• Steps in Implementing a Lubrication Strategy in Your Plant


• Is TPM and RCM Contradictory or Complementary and how to integrate the two strategies together


• And much more

This book contains real life stories, struggles and actual experiences by the Author in his career in maintenance and currently as a Reliability and Maintenance Consultant. The book is easy to absorb as it is structured into three parts which are the Basics, the Strategies and the Advance Disciplines. The Twelve Disciplines are grouped accordingly into these three parts. Maintenance often time seek for advance ways in dealing with their everyday problems and issues. The message of this book 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 break-downs and catastrophic failures are just an accumulation of small problems that has always been ignored and mostly neglected in th...