This book depicts the life and struggle of maintenance in seeking better ways and means to improve the equipment and assets' reliability. The author shares his experience on how to achieve such a feat. Transitioning from a reactive to a proactive maintenance stage is not easy, but it is not impossible. The author believes that the key to everything is educating the maintenance people on what maintenance is all about. Training is where we acquire knowledge to develop the skills required to do our job right. 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.
Every industry must change its paradigm and realize that maintenance are not repair people. The meaning of the word maintain to preserve our equipment and assets. And we can only preserve our assets if maintenance is equipped with the right knowledge on how to perform their jobs right the first time around. I have written this book to reach out to industries to discover ways to improve not only their equipment and assets but also their maintenance of human resources. Remember that maintenance is not a department. It is not a function or any organization, but rather maintenance is humble and down to earth human being; hence; let us provide them with the respect they truly deserve because that is all they ask for.
The message of this book is simple and straightforward. There is no better way to start the journey to reliability other than to go back to the basics and address these minimal problems in our plant. Big problems, unplanned breakdowns, and catastrophic failures are just an accumulation of small problems that have always been ignored in the first place. Maintenance is always shared responsibility for operators and maintenance working together in complete harmony. It will be difficult for maintenance to transition from a reactive to a proactive mode if operators are not involved in maintenance since maintenance is always a shared responsibility for operators and maintenance. This book explains how to proceed with the 4 Phases of Planned Maintenance and how to integrate RCM into the TPM process.