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 and failures are widespread, seem to be uncontrolled, and spreads like wildfire which ends up soaring the cost of doing maintenance, there is a better way. 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-term strategy. There is no Silver Bullet Solution to maintenance. This book will provide the reader a better understanding and perspective on reaching a level of World Class Maintenance that every industry seeks.
The author shares the life experiences 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. The 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 of operators' role in addressing these basic equipment conditions and why these people are very important in any reliability and maintenance strategy.
About the Author :
Rolly is a seasoned international maintenance and reliability consultant with over 30 years of solid experience in the field. He has been invited to different countries and has conducted reliability and maintenance training in United Arab Emirates, Qatar, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Thailand, Nigeria, Bangladesh, South Africa, China, and Botswana. His maintenance training portfolio includes maintenance and reliability courses on TPM, Lubrication, Tribology, Condition-Based Maintenance, RCM, RCFA, TPM Planned Maintenance, Autonomous Maintenance 7 Steps, World Class Maintenance Management, The 12 Disciplines, Oil Contamination Control, Maintenance Indices, and KPI's, Maintenance and Reliability Management Strategies and much more. Rolly previously worked with Amkor Technology Philippines as a TPM Senior Engineer, an industry engaged in manufacturing Integrated Circuit products and spearheaded their Planned Maintenance organization, composed of maintenance managers and engineers. He was also responsible for dramatically reducing unplanned breakdowns in their TPM Journey and RCM implementation on their Facilities AHU units and substation equipment.
Rolly is currently working as an independent reliability and maintenance consultant. Rolly is a graduate of Mechanical Engineering from Mapua Institute of Technology in the Philippines, batch 1985, and passed the licensure board examination the following year in 1986. With 30 years of solid experience, he had worked in various industries from shipping, woodworking, foundry, cast-iron machining, assembly lines, semiconductor manufacturing, and the mining industry. Here, he gained hands-on experience and understanding of TPM and RCM, respectively, a strategy from both the west and the east. His last corporate employment was in 2002, where he worked as a technical training specialist at Lepanto Consolidated Mining Industry. In 2005, Rolly retired early from the industry and decided to establish his own consulting business, RSA Reliability and Maintenance Consultancy Firm, where he dedicates his time and passion for working as an independent reliability and maintenance consultant. He provides in-house training, consultation, and facilitation to different maintenance and reliability best practices.
Bob Nelms is the founder and President of Failsafe Network. He has a wide experience in helping industries with the Latent Cause Analysis. He believes that much can we learn from the things that go wrong. His work has most inspired me in developing my materials on Root Cause Failure Analysis. You can reach him on his website at Failsafe-Network.
Review :
Rolly, your people-focus on reliability improvement and your commitment to helping people grow through improving their understanding of equipment and of themselves come through loud and clear in the book. The workplace stories you tell will resonate with people working in operations and maintenance in every industry. I very much like that you have provided practical answers with explanations and examples of how companies can move up the path to world-class maintenance performance. You have written about TPM, RCM and RCA with great passion and obvious depth of knowledge and experience. I've learnt much more about the right way to use those tools by reading your book than I ever understood before. There is no doubt that the World Class Maintenance Management - The 12 Disciplines book will become a well-thumbed reference book for me. Rolly, I've been fortunate to come across you and value your honest perspectives and insights on doing maintenance right. I share your desires for what maintenance can become and do for a company and hope that we can combine our efforts in the future. By Mike Sondalini, Reliability Consultant, Lifetime-Reliability, Australia
I hope you don't mind if I use your life, of course the part you shared with us and the ones you wrote in the book, as an example to our AM (Autonomous Maintenance) teams to encourage them to look beyond what they are capable of doing at this moment in their lives and to inspire them to dream and grab every opportunity to learn and improve themselves. The book simplified the concepts of maintenance to aid practitioners like us. As I browse through the book I can see that this is not just a technical book about maintenance, but a book about your passion, your life. Congratulations! From Flordeliza V. Aldaya, TPM Chief Engineer, ST Micro-electronics - Calamba, Laguna, Philippines
I am already half-done reading your book and I find it very, very useful. I was shocked, from a welder/mechanic's point of view, the explanations in your book, especially the metaphors, has accomplished in making me understand more easily what it is you are trying to convey. It should be a Handbook for Maintenance personnel and of course, an eye-opener for the operations. Regards to Mang Tibo. Good day to you Sir, From Julius Fungo, CE Casecnan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines
Hi Mr. Rolly, Hopefully you still remember me. I am the one who give you my thesis during WCM - 12 Discipline courses @ Eastin Hotel, Malaysia. Here I want to review about the WCM Book. I already read the book twice. It really fills me with hope for the maintenance role to be outstanding. The setting for this book was perfect. Every disciplines was made easy to grasp. It covers almost all dimensions of maintenance management. Without reservation, I heartily recommend this book. Thank you. From Khairul Haffiz Norddin, delegate from World Class Maintenance Training, Malaysia
Rolly's book "World Class Maintenance Management" comprehensively explains the 12 Disciplines and thus provides a valuable reference for maintenance personnel. He has a dynamic vibrant personality, which he uses to presents the knowledge and wisdom condensed in his book in interesting and dynamic ways. He has a broad knowledge of the field of Maintenance and operator involvement in achieving greatest profitability from production plant. Rolly is an excellent experienced trainer in Reliability and Maintenance Best Practice." From Howard Witt, Maintenance Consultant from Australia
