Maintenance and Operational Reliability : The 24 Essential Building Blocks

The quest for reliability is long overdue! In the case of many operations, realization of sustained reliability is still a work in progress. Very few organizations have completed the journey to world-class reliability. The vast majority still operate within a reactive culture, allowing response to repetitive failures to consume an excessive proportion of already limited maintenance resources, and leaving too few for performance of any proactive activities.

In today’s competitive international environment, enterprise survival is a battle of the fittest. To survive, organizations must achieve “world-class” stature, characterized by wellness, readiness, and application required for a company to successfully compete globally. That’s why Maintenance and Operational Reliability is so important.

This work is organized by the foundation and 5 Pillars of Maintenance/Reliability Excellence, plus 24 Building Blocks, as depicted throughout the book. This pillar graphic shows the functions, management techniques, systems, information sources and performance management vital to the maintenance and reliability process, and also serves as an important visual aid for the education of the entire organization.

So, how is the ultimate, but challenging reliability goal to be achieved? Are you prepared to manage, support, process, and interpret the magnitude of information in real time, critical to making the right business decisions to achieve a competitive advantage? The authors, two veteran maintenance and reliability experts, have collected all the essentials leading to reliability here, in one practical resource, connecting and sequencing the integral pieces for world-class reliability.

Features

• Guides readers through the journey from classic reactive repair upon failure to reliable, proactive maintenance, engineered to preclude failure and, ultimately, to sustain reliability.
• Clarifies roles and responsibilities of involved functions while explaining control tools to be deployed by each position.
• Provides the overriding business justification required to gain senior management commitment.

Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgments

Section A : Process Foundation
Chapter 1 : Governing Principles, Strategies, & Policies

Section B : Performance Management
Chapter 2 : Status Assessment
Chapter 3 : Master Plan
Chapter 4 : Objectives, Goals, & Targets
Chapter 5 : Budgetary Control
Chapter 6 : Management Reporting & Control

Section C : Organizational Development
Chapter 7 : Organization Size and Structure
Chapter 8 : Supervisory Practices
Chapter 9 : Education and Training

Section D : Information Sources
Chapter 10 : Sources of Management / Operational Information

Section E : Operational Control
Chapter 11 : Macroplanning
Chapter 12 : Microplanning of Individual Jobs
Chapter 13 : Materials Support and Control
Chapter 14 : Work Measurement
Chapter 15 : Inter-Functional Coordination
Chapter 16 : Job Scheduling

Section F : Asset Reliability
Chapter 17 : Reliability Engineering and PM/PdM
Chapter 18 : Technology Enhanced Asset Reliability

Epilogue
Appendix A : Sample Maintenance Assessment, 4 Sections
Appendix B : Sample Maintenance / Reliability Excellence Master Plan
Index