World Class Maintenance Management: The 12 Disciplines - Paperback

by Charles Robert Nelms (Foreword by), Rolly Angeles (Author)

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 day-to-day 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 World-Class 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 World-Class 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 day-to-day struggles of maintenance people in industries in seeking better ways to manage and maintain their equipment and assets. This book contains real-life stories, struggles, and actual experiences of the author as he shares his passion and experience living with the day-to-day 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.

Author Biography

Rolly, is a seasoned international reliability and maintenance consultant with 29 years of solid experience in the field. He hails from the Philippines and had been invited in different countries to conduct reliability and maintenance training courses in United Arab Emirates, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Thailand, Nigeria, Bangladesh, South Africa, China and Botswana. His portfolio of maintenance trainings include Maintenance Management courses on TPM, Lubrication, Tribology, Condition-Based Maintenance, RCM, RCFA, Planned Maintenance, WCM, The 12 Disciplines, Oil Contamination Control, Maintenance Indices and KPI's, Maintenance Management Strategies and much more. Rolly previously worked with Amkor Technology Philippines, as a TPM Senior Engineer, an industry engaged in the manufacture of Integrated Circuit products and spearheaded their Planned Maintenance organization compose of maintenance managers and engineers. He was also responsible for the dramatic reduction of unplanned breakdowns in their TPM Journey as well as RCM implementation on their Facilities AHU units and as well as their substation equipment. Today, Rolly is currently working as an independent reliability and maintenance consultant. Rolly had released two books on maintenance his first book on World Class Maintenance Management - The Twelve Disciplines, and recently a sequel to his first book which is Maintenance - Roadmap to Reliability. You may visit his website at http: //www.rsareliability.com Mr. Rolly is one of the World Class Best Trainers I have come across during my 28 years career. The course was built up very methodically in the most simplest way. His presentation skills and his command on the various Maintenance Strategies made the workshop very interesting. Mr. Rolly is one of the few Maintenance Professionals I have come across who is very much attached and dedicated to the Maintenance Profession. His wealth of experience and his humor made the RCM Workshop even more interesting. The structuring and delivery of the concept enables all the participants to initiate RCM studies very confidently. The training material provided by Mr. Rolly was excellent and was prepared with great care to ensure that all the participants are fully been benefited. I am sure that all the participants in this three day workshop have been benefited by his technical and intellectual sharing of his knowledge. From Srinagesh Dy, General Manager, Reliance Industries Ltd., India