The book introduces the concept of achieving World Class Maintenance by addressing the struggles industries face with constant breakdowns and rising costs. It offers guidance and solutions for organizations stuck in reactive maintenance cycles to find a sustainable path forward.

The book addresses how industries can break free from reactive maintenance and begin the journey toward reliability. Drawing from the author’s experience, it outlines step-by-step activities through the 4 Phases of TPM Planned Maintenance to achieve World Class Maintenance Excellence.

The book emphasizes the crucial role of operators in maintenance, highlighting that they are the first line of defense against equipment failures and essential partners in sustaining assets. It provides a detailed roadmap for implementing Autonomous Maintenance, covering every step from preparation to completion, based on the author’s years of experience.

The book goes beyond the standard definition of reliability, showing why reaching World-Class Reliability is more demanding than achieving World-Class Maintenance. It stresses that industries must pursue this higher level of reliability to stay competitive and ensure long-term survival.

This book highlights the often-overlooked importance of MRO Spare Parts and Storeroom Management, a critical yet neglected part of maintenance and reliability strategies across industries. It identifies common storeroom problems, explains why low inventory accuracy creates a cascade of issues, and provides practical solutions to restore control and efficiency.

This book offers a clear, practical guide to lubrication, helping industries cut costs and prevent failures by moving beyond outdated practices and overreliance on OEM recommendations. It emphasizes that improper lubrication leads to breakdowns costing at least twice the price of the lubricants themselves, making proper management essential for reliability and savings.

This book explains how to implement RCM in manufacturing industries, highlighting that equipment losses often differ from those in oil, gas, or power plants. It provides detailed guidance on what RCM can and cannot address, helping industries focus on failures and breakdowns while understanding its limitations in tackling other losses like minor stoppages or quality issues.

This eighth book compiles newsletters on maintenance and reliability from 2007–2020 as part of the World Class Maintenance series. It covers key topics like TPM, RCM, lubrication, MRO management, KPIs, and maintenance best practices.

This book emphasizes that failure is essential for learning and achieving success, both in life and in industry, and Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) helps ensure failures are understood rather than repeated. It stresses that true root causes can only be identified through preserved evidence, distinguishing RCFA for equipment issues from RCA for non-equipment problems, and focuses on learning from failures to prevent recurrence.

This book explains maintenance indices and KPIs, emphasizing that measuring them helps track whether a maintenance organization is progressing effectively. It goes beyond formulas to provide a deeper understanding of what should be included or excluded in these metrics.

This book, based on Discipline 5 of World Class Maintenance – The 12 Disciplines, guides industries on performing effective Preventive Maintenance to truly prevent equipment failures. It emphasizes mastering the basics and focusing on tasks that can realistically anticipate failures, rather than relying solely on advanced technologies.

This book guides industries on extending the total life cycle of equipment by combining skill development, correct maintenance, and addressing design weaknesses to reduce costs. Drawing from the author’s experience, it explains how to manage both initial and running costs and integrate TPM’s Initial Flow Control Activities for efficient equipment start-up.