Ramesh Gulati - Maintenance and Reliability. Best Practices

MAINTENANCE
and RELIABILITY
BEST PRACTICES

Praise for Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices by Ramesh Gulati

The standard for maintenance and reliability.

I have been in the business for over 40 years and still picked up a lot of great information from this book. Wish I would have been able to get it years ago. While it has a lot of facts and data, it is still written in a format that does not put you to sleep.

Wow! By far the best book on the subject Ive ever read. The author is,thankfully, ageless.

This book encompasses everything it takes to be world class. Ive been in manufacturing for 20 years. I learned more from this book than I did throughout my career in maintenance and production!

Best info on reliability I have found in one book.

Im the Senior Advisor of service and asset management implementationsand have often thought about writing a maintenance primer to help with my implementations. But upon reading Mr. Gulatis book, I dont need to anymore. Its a perfect guide for setting up a maintenance program. I have and will continue to recommend it to my customers and colleagues.

Good reading for the maintenance professional. Lots of case study type examples. Perfect tool to prepare for CMRP certification testing.

Covers a wide range of topics from measurement and analysis techniques, to management strategies. Great read and reference.

As a practitioner and consultant in all the areas covered by this book, I am always interested in reviewing and using good references. This book covers all the important areas of the field without resorting to opinion rather than information. This is a good addition to any EAM professionals library.

Provides a very understandable and commonsense approach to improvingmaintenance performance.

The best technical book I have read in recent years. It is filled with practical information. Its written in an easy to understand format with real-life scenario discussion. It is a great book to comprehend all practices in maintenance and reliability areas. You need to read only this book if you want to take a professional certification, such as CMRP, or update your maintenance and reliability best practices.

This is absolutely the best Reliability book I have ever read. It is trulypriceless.

The text was uniquely organized. Short questions tied to the previous chapter, which helped to emphasize and highlight important principles. I liked the authors fresh approach. Good man.

This is a great book for anyone who wants to understand how to improve your equipments reliability and help your company drive down the cost of operating. Getting to a Reliable State in your plant is hard, continuous work that is necessary to be competitive. This material applies to any industry, and Ramesh does a great job of explaining the sections in easy to understand language. This book is for everyone in industry from Engineering, Purchasing, Finance, Maintenance, Production, and Senior Management.

A must read for anyone in the maintenance and reliability field. It is acomprehensive guide to understanding how M&R affects the bottom line.

Very easy to read. A great read for those in or going into this field.

Great book to develop a road map for effective and efficient reliability.

The title says it all. Great book!

Im finding this book very helpful in all my first units of my engineeringprogram. I have used the book in almost every assignment to a large extent. If you want to understand maintenance this is the book!

MAINTENANCE
and RELIABILITY
BEST PRACTICES

THIRD EDITION

Ramesh Gulati

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Author: Ramesh Gulati

Title: Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices, Third Edition

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In memory of our sons, Vikas and Anoop, who left us in an early age to serve Him.Despite their physical challenges, they always encouraged and inspired us with their smiles and wit to make life easier.

The Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity were launched individually in the summer of 2003 and touched down in January of 2004 in different regions of the planet. Each was equipped with a panoramic camera, a macro camera, spectrometers for identifying rocks and minerals, and a little drill for taking samples. The goal was to operate for 90 days, traveling about 40 meters each day and ultimately covering about a kilometer. Both exceeded those goals by incredible amounts. Spirit ended up traveling about 7.7 kilometers and lasting about 7 years.

Opportunity outshone its twin, going some 45 kilometers over 14 years.

No maintenance! High reliability.

The best practice for maintenance is zero. A maintenance-free asset is a dream come true for asset owners. As Ramesh Gulati has taught us for years, the time to influence such an outcome is in early asset life cycles such as specification, design, creation/build and commissioning. The required maintenance is locked in place once the asset begins its operating life. Ones influence on reliability, sustainability, safety, and total cost of ownership are limited after commissioning.

Yet, most assets are not maintenance-free. You will have to read 10 Rights of Asset Management (ISBN 978-1-941872-83-3) to learn more about the benefits of Reliability-Centered Design (RCD) as we refer to it in Uptime Elements Reliability Framework and Asset Management System or Design for Reliability (DFR) as Ramesh and his colleagues refer to it.

The issues around determining maintenance requirements for an asset were settled over 40 years ago with Nolan and Heaps seminal work ReliabilityCentered Maintenance or RCM, commissioned by the Department of Defense in collaboration with United Airlines. The result of a thorough RCM analysis is a technically valid and economically feasible preventive maintenance strategy that is aimed at safely ensuring that the asset or system will deliver its function at the lowest possible cost.

Easy to say, much more challenging to do. Reliabilityweb research indicates that over 70% of maintenance improvement initiatives fail to generate sustainable business success, meaning, it never shows up on the financial statement.

In this book, Ramesh Gulati takes us on a 360-degree journey that includes technical approaches, effective processes, and, most importantly, people in order to reverse the trend of failed improvement efforts with proven strategies and tactics.