ABSTRACT

If proper input data of failure-resistant measures are provided to the production process, it means all properly designed parts and will produce at optimum levels of performance. With skilled and knowledgeable people working together effectively and focused on equipment improvement, it will lead to maximum achievable reliability. To achieve maximum reliability

with maximum level of success, the following ve key elements must be core to any improvement program:

1. Improving overall equipment and part effectiveness, quality, and reliability

2. Improving process performance with maintenance efciency and effectiveness

3. Training for all employees involved 4. Involving operators in the daily maintenance and upkeep of the

equipment 5. Early equipment management and maintenance prevention design

When these ve key elements are the focus of improvement, company’s experience increasingly better equipment availability, rates of performance, rates of product quality and reliability. They also benet from improved safety and environmental performance and timely product deliveries to their customers. In advanced companies, what makes these ve elements so powerful is that everyone in the plant is focusing on a specic KPI-overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)—which in turn improves overall process effectiveness. When all benchmarking and KPI improvements are focused on improving OEE, the measurable improvement will be seen in [1]

• Equipment and part quality/reliability • Production throughput and process performance • Controlled expenses and maintenance costs

In this book, we shall deal with the essentials of system/component reliability monitoring and precision maintenance strategies from design through development of parts to its service operations.