During the start of this year 2020, I have been thinking a lot about writing my fourth book on maintenance. What title should I give this book, and why? What industries need today are Cutting-Edge Maintenance Management Strategies that can be explained straightforwardly and simply for industries that can easily adopt. Today what every industry needs is a way on how to survive their competition and remain in business.
When I first published my first book on World Class Maintenance Management, the 12 Disciplines, in 2009, I thought I had written everything there is to written to achieve a level of World-Class Maintenance Management. Through the years, what I learned so far is that having a World Class Maintenance is very different from achieving a World Class Reliability, which is much harder to achieve. There are also many developments and changes today in maintenance that we need to adopt. Writing this book is not only for the readers to understand the new trends in maintenance but also for them to understand the reason for using them. These strategies must be adopted by industries for their own advantage because, in today's phase, the jungle's law applies, and that is, survive now or be left behind.
This book is not only a sequel to my other books, but it is also an enhancement of my previous books. I want to give my utmost thanks to two of my good friends. R. Keith Mobley for writing the foreword message of this book and Joel Levitt for providing a review of this book. Industries must accept that they cannot remain reactive forever, and much can be done to improve the maintenance function. I have also explained why it is important for c-level people in any industry to adopt these cutting edge maintenance strategies for their benefit and why it should be done and their role in it.