Ebook: Plant and Equipment Wellness. A Process for Exceptional Equipment Reliability and Maximum Life Cycle Profits

Engineers Media : EA Books, 2009. — 311 р.What are the answers that bring enterprise asset management success? I have looked long and wide for them since the early 1990s. I knew they existed. There were companies and organisations renowned for their operational excellence, exceptional equipment reliability and low production costs. Such operations were, and still are, a tiny minority. It is not easy to be the best. I have since learned that ratio is normal; though totally unnecessary. I was fifty two years old when I finally realised what maintenance and asset management were meant to deliver to a business, and how it could be done. That education took me nearly two decades to assemble. Many times I wished that there was one place where I could go to find what was important to know and understand to be a world-class operation. That is why I wrote this book. Equally important to me was to speed the whole process of becoming world-class. No company can afford to wait decades while its managers, supervisors and engineers learn what to do. Even three years is too long. The second purpose of this book was to present a standard methodology to integrate maintenance and asset management best practices throughout a business.
When you write a book on creating maintenance and asset management excellence, you soon realise how much of your thinking is based on what you have read and learnt from previous people’s work. Few of the recommended practices and methodologies promoted in this book are my own. Most are the good sense and proven methods of others. Amongst them I have added some new ideas based on my industrial experiences, to provide the missing links that I believe are needed in a standardised process for achieving equipment reliability excellence and maximum life cycle profit.