Covering essentially everything you should know or ever need to know in well organized sequence and easily read language, "Best Practices" provides an essential basis and benchmarks to determine the effectiveness of existing programs as well as provide excellent guidance for a new program.

"Best Practices" even provides a most interesting historical context describing the origin of many practices. Do you know the Japanese words for 5S? How about the original definition of the three sources of waste in Lean? You will when you read "Best Practices!"

RCM, FMEA, RCA, OEE, Six Sigma, CM, PM, CMMS and many more essential acronymic elements of R&m are described with clarity and detail to assure you are doing the right things to contribute the maximum to your facilities effectiveness.

Chapters are exceptionally well organized beginning with a paragraph on what you will learn and ending with a summary of what you were supposed to learn and references. As an added bonus; an appendix contains a 55 question test of knowledge with references back to the applicable chapter. Anyone considering the SMRP CMRP examination would be well advised to spend some time on the test Ramesh has so generously provided.

Ramesh Gulati is to be congratulated for this major addition to the Reliability and maintenance warrior's arsenal.

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Reviewed by John S. Mitchell