This book was written based on the knowledge that most companies cannot and do not perform an effective failure identification, analysis, and corrective action system and thus spend a lot of time and money chasing what they consider "bad actors." FRACAS is the best method for continuous improvement of your maintenance strategy through the use of good failure data, accurate analysis, and implementation of an effective corrective action. The corrective action could come in the form of a maintenance strategy adjustment or redesign. Most people do not understand the power of FRACAS, and in this book we will unlock this awesome tool and change the way you view failures. This book can help any company be successful at failure elimination. The only ingredient you will need to add will be "discipline" to ensure everyone follows the program so that the full benefits can be found in lower cost, higher availability, lower replacement cost, and fewer chances of an unknown failure. Contents:Chapter 1: What is FRACAS and Failure Reporting? Chapter 2: The Basics of Failures Chapter 3: Eliminating Failures (Can it be done?) Chapter 4: Understanding FRACAS in Simple Terms Chapter 5: Failure Reports Chapter 6: Weibull Analysis (Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask) Chapter 7: Steps to Implementing an Effective FRACAS Chapter 8: The Cost of Unreliability Chapter 9: Managing Change in a Failure Elimination Organization

FRACAS; Failure Reporting, Analysis, Corrective Action System, Revised Edition

Ricky Smith

Billy Keeter

Reliabilityweb.com Press

Time and attention are currently two of the world s scarcest resources and that, of course, applies particularly to Maintenance and Reliability professionals. This work by Ricky Smith and David A. Martin is written in a format that allows you to quickly read and absorb the lessons in a couple of hours. After the initial read, it automatically converts into a KPI reference manual you can use time and again as you work to improve performance. The authors move quickly and efficiently to define a series of metrics and, more importantly, instruct you in where and when to use them. They are both committed to helping you become a Reliability Performance Manager as you use this information to drive bottom line improvements at your organization. This book should certainly be read by everyone in your Maintenance department but our hope is that you would also acquire copies for all of your Operations Supervisors and Managers as well. You might even consider giving a copy to your Plant Manager.

Maintenance Reliability Metrics KPIs 101 - Keeping It Simple

David A. Martin

Reliabilityweb.com

Lubrication accounts for a significant proportion of equipment failures. Improper lubrication practices are at the heart of many equipment reliability issues. Studies have shown that 70-85% of equipment failures are self induced, meaning that maintenance practices and processes are directly responsible for the failures. As such, it&#8217;s obvious that proper lubrication is vital to the success of reliability and, in turn, operational assurance and cost control. First and foremost: Discipline is the key to the success of any proactive maintenance program.This book will identify effective ways to bridge the gap between established and proven Best Practices and your current program. Combining the right lubrication activities with proper practices, a significant opportunity exists to use the lubrication function within maintenance to impact plant reliability. Buy a copy for every manager, supervisor, planner and scheduler!

Maintenance and Reliability Lubrication 101 - Keeping it Simple

Ricky Smith and Jerry Wilson have produced a second edition of this quick, easy read for any organization looking for a number of focused, easily implemented actions which can be expected to produce big improvements in effectiveness. They lay out those critical aspects of Planning and Scheduling without which any Planning and Scheduling system will fail to produce the desired results. Each chapter contains high-lighted Key Principles which quickly summarize important points. Buy a copy for every manager, supervisor, planner and scheduler.

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Made Simple - 2nd Edition

Jerry, Wilson

Ricky Smith and Jerry Wilson have produced a third edition of this quick, easy read for any organization looking for a number of focused, easily implemented actions which can be expected to produce big improvements in effectiveness. They lay out those critical aspects of Planning & Scheduling without which any Planning and Scheduling system will fail to produce the desired results. Each chapter contains high-lighted Key Principles; which quickly summarize important points. Buy a copy for every manager, supervisor, planner and scheduler! Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: What Is Planning And Scheduling Chapter 2: Planning And Scheduling Objectives Chapter 3: How To Plan And Schedule Chapter 4: Know How To Focus Your Efforts Chapter 5: Guiding Principles For Planning and Scheduling Glossary

Planning & Scheduling Made Simple - 3rd Edition

Maintenance Reliability Metrics/KPI's 101 - Keeping it Simple

Picture yourself driving to work on a cold, dark, winter morning. It's Monday. You pull into the parking lot and note with surprise that the plant is much quieter than it should be on a Monday morning. As you walk inside to your office, your growing apprehension turns into the sudden realization that something serious must have happened over the weekend... Whether you work in a manufacturing facility, a continuous production facility, a hospital or building infrastructure, the need to prevent failures from reoccurring is familiar. So how is this accomplished? By applying root cause analysis methodology. Root Cause Analysis Made Simple covers the four fundamental steps to RCA. <ul>
<li>Quantify the magnitude of the problem - Why? When?</li> <li>Perform the analysis using the appropriate technique - Who? How?</li> <li>Develop a list of options for solving the problem</li> <li>Document the results and Implement recommended actions</li>
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This book provides an overview of RCA. It is intended to support you in understanding the business impact of preventing reoccurring failures and provide some tried-and-true practical approaches to conducting a root cause analysis.

Root Cause Analysis Made Simple

Education & Teaching

Susan Lubell

Schools & Teaching

How many times have you heard that you need to simplify or optimize your preventive maintenance (PM) program? Preventive Maintenance Made Simple is written for most maintenance reliability leaders and engineers who are looking for ideas to improve, optimize and rationalize their current PM program. The book includes processes and components that, when combined and implemented into a struggling PM program, would bring immediate improvements to said program.

Preventive Maintenance Made Simple

Doug Stangier

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