John L. Ross 
The Reliability Excellence Workbook 
From Ideas to Action

The Reliability Excellence Workbook covers reliability (and other 4-letter words) in the context of creating a master strategy of continuous improvement.  Think of it as a
truly interactive workbook—like Mad Libs™ for maintenance and reliability professionals. 

 

Reading this book is like having a seasoned reliability consultant sitting across the table, helping to drive your organization along a continuum of reliability improvement.  The author introduces a concept, provides space for readers to record their experiences and observations, offers anecdotal and tried and tested examples and approaches, and drives readers to potential customizable solutions. 

 

This work helps maintenance and reliability professionals clearly understand their current situation, plan a route to improvement and high performance, and enables them to develop the path forward, including how to articulate a compelling case for change to their supervisors.  With the combination of forms, tables, and discussions in this workbook along with readers’ own vision, they will create a working strategy they can continually use to grow and improve their business.

 

Table of Content

Introduction—The Beginning; Ch. 1—Change and the Resistance to It; Ch. 2.—The Business of Reliability; Ch. 3—The Process of Reliability; Ch. 4—Ensuring Reliability; Ch. 5—Leading and Organizing for Reliability; Ch. 6—Working Towards Reliability; Summary; The Master Strategy.

 

About the author

John L. Ross, Jr., Ph.D., CMRP, is a seasoned practitioner of maintenance and reliability with over three decades of field and plant experience.  He is a former Captain and Gulf War Veteran with the United States Air Force.  Dr. Ross is the President of the international reliability consulting company, Maintenance Innovators, Inc., and the sole proprietor of State Line Group, LLC.  He proudly serves as a Senior Consultant with the widely renowned Marshall Institute.