Reliability - A Shared Responsibility for Operators and Maintenance

This book had to be written for industries to realize what they are missing. My goal is to reach out to industries and convince them that these two cannot co-exists without each other and that it is time for both operators and maintenance to finally work together in improving not only the productivity but as well as improving the reliability of their equipment and assets. Separating these two only creates feud and friction between them. When I sometimes think about this, all I can say is that the problems on industries remain deeply rooted down in their organization, from how their organizational was structured, their policies, procedures they wrote and the rules they imposed upon their employees. This book may sound contradicting to many of the policies industries imposed and all I ask from the reader is to finish reading this book so that the reader can understand my reasons behind the contradiction. Industries hire me for one reason, so that I can tell them what is wrong with them on how they do maintenance and what can be done about it.  In today's industry's norm, maintenance are often provided with blinkers or blinders. This is an eye patch they place on the eyes of the horse so that the horse cannot see the rear or what is on their side and can only see the front. The moment they were hired, they wore this blinkers so that maintenance can only see the things you learned from the University of Hard Knocks. When it is time for them to retire, then this blinders needs to be pass on to the new maintenance generation and that is how it goes for industries It is time to remove those blinkers/blinders so that maintenance can see at a wider range and found out what they are missing at all. There are many things that we need to change so that industries can move forward and remain in business.  This book is composed of twelve chapters in which I include a quiz at the end of each chapter for the reader to answer in order to grasp the level of understanding they got from reading each chapter.   As our equipment continues to be upgraded and automated, we need operators who are not only switch flickers and operate the equipment but what we need are operators who can sense if something is wrong with their equipment at its earliest possible stage. Dealing a small problem is less expensive than waiting for the failure to come. The breakdowns and failures we experience on our equipment are just merely an accumulation of small problems that had been neglected so far. The problem was that when these problems were small nothing had been done to correct them until another small problem emerge and another and another in which finally the equipment can no longer bear which ended up in a breakdown. And when the machine fails, then that is the time we react. This book covers what maintenance is all about. What it can do and what it cannot do. Maintenance is simple, but often times industries complicate matters. For example Preventive Maintenance ...