3rd Edition

Uptime Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management, Third Edition

    534 Pages 72 B/W Illustrations
    by Productivity Press

    Uptime describes the combination of activities that deliver fewer breakdowns, improved productive capacity, lower costs, and better environmental performance. The bestselling second edition of Uptime has been used as a textbook on maintenance management in several postsecondary institutions and by many companies as the model framework for their maintenance management programs.

    Following in the tradition of its bestselling predecessors, Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management, Third Edition explains how to deal with increasingly complex technologies, such as mobile and cloud computing, to support maintenance departments and set the stage for compliance with international standards for asset management.

    This updated edition reflects a far broader and deeper wealth of experience and knowledge. In addition, it restructures its previous model of excellence slightly to align what must be done more closely with how to do it.

    The book provides a strategy for developing and executing improvement plans that work well with the new values prevalent in today's workforce. It also explains how you can use seemingly competing improvement tools to complement and enhance each other.

    This edition also highlights action you can take to compensate for the gradual loss of skills in the current workforce as "baby boomers" retire.

    LEADERSHIP

    Building a Maintenance Strategy

    Business of Maintenance Management
    Framework for the Strategy
    Strategy Components
    Strategy Development
    Developing the Vision
    Maintenance Review
    Closing the Gap—Planning Implementation
    Contract Maintenance
    Uptime Summary
    Endnotes

    People and Teamwork

    People Really Are Your Most Important Asset
    Teams
    Managing Change
    Organizing the Maintenance Structure
    Multiskilling
    Learning, Training, and Development

    ESSENTIALS

    Work Management
    Work Management Cycle
    Six Key Steps
    Planning Horizons
    Shutdown Management
    Planning and Scheduling Tools
    Planning Standards
    Mobile Workforce Management
    Uptime Summary
    Endnotes

    Basic Care
    The Minimum Is Not Always Enough
    Beyond the Minimum: Basic Care
    5S Asset Management Housekeeping Excellence
    5S Audits
    Before you Start 5S
    Uptime Summary

    Materials Management
    Planning, Scheduling, and Materials Management
    E-Business
    MRO Improvements
    Uptime Summary
    5
    Endnote

    Performance Management
    Measuring Maintenance
    Benchmarking Maintenance
    Uptime Summary
    Endnotes

    Management and Support Systems for Maintenance
    Systems Are Not Replacements for Strategy
    What Management Systems Should Do
    Different Types of Management Systems
    Specialized Support Systems
    Implementation Considerations
    Justifying Your CMMS
    Hardware and Software Tools: An Overview
    Where Are We Headed with Systems?
    Uptime Summary
    Endnotes

    CHOOSING EXCELLENCE

    Asset Reliability 1: Being Proactive
    Reliability-Centered Maintenance
    Business of Maintenance Management
    Simplified RCM Methods
    Implementing RCM Successfully
    Uptime Summary
    Endnotes

    Reliability Approaches 2: Quick Start and Continuous Improvement
    Preventive Maintenance Optimization
    Reliability and Simulation Modeling
    Uptime Summary
    Endnotes

    Evidence-Based Asset Management
    Evidence-Based Asset Management
    Optimizing Life-Cycle Costing Decisions
    Economic Life of an Asset
    Optimizing Maintenance Tactics
    Calculating Spare-Part Requirements
    Optimizing Failure-Finding Intervals
    Uptime Summary

    ASSET MANAGEMENT

    Asset Management
    What Is Asset Management?
    Standards, "Anatomy," and "Landscape"
    Documentation, Record Keeping, and Information Management
    Certification
    Putting Uptime in an Asset Management Context
    Uptime Summary

    Information Management and Governance
    Defining the Aim Program
    Uptime Summary

    THE JOURNEY

    Implementing Uptime
    Why Bother?
    Getting there—Implementing Uptime
    Assessments vs. Training
    A New Approach
    Planning
    Governance
    Initiative Overload
    Action Teams
    Middle Management
    Just Do It
    Sustainability
    Uptime Summary
    Conclusion
    Endnotes
    Bibliography

    Appendix A: The Uptime Assessment
    Appendix B: Glossary of Maintenance Terminology
    Appendix C: Rapid Preventive Maintenance (PM) Deployment

    Suggestions

    Index

    Biography

    James V Reyes-Picknell, BASc, CMC., P.Eng., CMRP, CAMA., is the founder and President of Conscious Asset, a Canadian-based consulting and training firm specializing in asset management. He provides business consulting services for our practice in Physical Asset Management in the areas of strategy, process improvement, executive / management coaching, change management and general client advisory. He is a licensed Professional Engineer, certified management consultant (international), certified maintenance and reliability professional (USA),a former RCM2 practitioner, member of the institute of Asset Management and honours graduate of the University of Toronto in Mechanical Engineering. James also studied at the Royal Naval Engineering College in the UK, the Technical University of Nova Scotia and at Dalhousie Universities in Canada. James has extensive years of hands-on experience in engineering, operations, maintenance management, consulting and change management.

    "For those wanting to refresh their knowledge and skills, or for individuals or organizations wanting to embark upon the asset management/Lean thinking/continuous improvement journey, this book is invaluable. A clear explanation of fundamental aspects, true life examples, and well-documented theory make Uptime, Third Edition a 'must-read’ for any asset management advocate."
    —Mick O’Sullivan, Independent Consultant

    "The third edition of Uptime is an essential and pragmatic guide and reference. The ever-changing relationship between asset performance, cost, and risk is far more complex than it has ever been making this edition of Uptime crucial reading. It really does raise the bar - not only with the material updated and refreshed, but it is consistent with the newly recognized field of ‘asset management’.  Uptime remains the primary reference for anyone who is serious about their proficiency in the field of asset management and the holistic contribution those assets have on business performance."
    —Stephen Young, Director, Chisholm Mackay Pty Ltd

    "In today's world where information is at our finger tips, it is very rare to find a text that compiles in such a qualitative manner what a professional in maintenance and asset management needs to know and be aware of. Uptime, since its first edition, has always provided the tools to help management land the concepts from theory to practical application in the field. This new edition is not the exception, but most important, its evolution from maintenance to asset management represents an invaluable contribution to companies among different industries that are willing to move towards that direction. With no doubt, this new edition of Uptime is a masterpiece."
    —Marcelo Aliendre, Global Director, Asset Management, Barrick Gold Corp

    "If maintenance, work management, reliability, and several other aspects of asset management have always baffled you, then this is a great book to unlock its mysteries. Through this book’s evolution, now in its third edition, it has evolved with the asset management strategies, tactical approaches, and other new developments in the field. This book is now a collaborative effort from leading minds in the field, which in my mind contributes even further to its original value to the reader.

    Uptime reads well as a whole, as a refresher on topics when you need it, and for a novice to gain understanding of the topics. I personally found it of great use to start with reading the summary after each chapter to gain insights before reading each chapter. I can highly recommend this book for novices, specialists, and everyone in between in the field of asset management. It is thorough in its discussions on each topic, gives good examples on both what has proven useful and pitfalls to avoid, and is written by people who have lived the experiences of the topics involved. Great work Jim and contributing writers in keeping the spirit of John Campbell alive through the continual improvements on his work."
    Bjarni Ellert Isleifsson, MSc, CMRP, CRL, Asset and Maintenance Management Consultant

    "... the third edition of Uptime is more than a minor tweaking of a popular book. In many ways, it is an entirely new book, with the addition of new contributing authors and the major rewriting of chapters to reflect current thinking. ... The book shows how changes in technology and changes in demographics—younger workforce, different values, ways of communicating, and retirement of baby boomers—are combining to influence how maintenance is managed and how changes are implemented in the field. ... This book achieves an appropriate balance between technology, including its use for decision-making processes and human factors and will surely be welcomed by individuals and organizations seeking excellence in maintenance management practices."
    —From the Book’s Foreword by Andrew K.S. Jardine, PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto