World Class Maintenance - The 12 Disciplines

World Class Maintenance - The 12 DisciplinesIf you have been living through the day to day pressure of reactive maintenance and you want some light on how to improve things around, then this book is written for you. The book is easy to absorb as it is structured into three parts: the Basics, the Strategies, and the Advance Disciplines. The 12 Disciplines are grouped accordingly into these three parts. Maintenance often time seek advance ways of dealing with their day to day problems and issues.

If you have been living through the day to day pressure of reactive maintenance and you want some light on how to improve things around, then this book is written for you. The book is easy to absorb as it is structured into three parts: the Basics, the Strategies, and the Advance Disciplines. The 12 Disciplines are grouped accordingly into these three parts. Maintenance often time seek advance ways of dealing with their day to day 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 minimal 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.
Why Are Most Industries Reactive?
Can Equipment Failures Be Eliminated?
The Need for a World-Class Maintenance Management
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
The Lifeblood of Root Cause Failure Analysis
What does Will It take for the Maintenance to Get There?
What Does It Take to Change People?
And much more . . .

Finally, the author would like to share his message on the Conclusion part of this book and share his experience on what it takes for the industry to reach World Class Maintenance Management Stage. If you have been living the day to day pressures and struggles of doing maintenance, then this is definitely a book for you. Life of maintenance is typically a struggle as most industries end up being reactive all the time. As borrowing from Keith Mobley's words, 17 percent of maintenance problems are maintenance induced or done by maintenance; this means that 83 percent of maintenance problems are not induced by maintenance and come from other areas/departments of your organization. Learn what it takes to reach a world-class maintenance management stage, and if your industry is geared up and ready for it.