Uptime Elements Implementation Guide

About This Title

Many public and private sector organizations around the world have initiated a reliability and asset management program to drive efficiencies, mitigate risks and manage the asset throughout the entire lifecycle. However, it’s well known that more than seventy percent of those implementations fail to become a long-term sustainable solution, and some of them never get off the ground!

The development and implementation of a reliability and asset management program most often focuses on the technical aspects of the journey and not the cultural journey itself. The journey is filled with challenges, barriers, difficult decisions, successes and failures. How does one understand these items and how should they be approached in advance of the journey?

The Uptime Elements Implementation Virtual Special Interest Group (vSIG) was assembled to analyze the reliability and asset management program journey to glean and present the wisdom, advice and recommendations of those who have made the journey utilizing the five domains of the Uptime Elements. Contributors to this implementation guide have made “the journey,” and thus gained experience in developing, implementing and/or operating a reliability and asset management program. They’ve experienced the ups and downs, the successes and failures and the barriers and challenges, and have the change management experience required to create valuable and sustainable reliability and asset management solutions.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Executive Summary

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Asset Management

Chapter 3: Leadership for Reliability

Chapter 4: Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Chapter 5: Asset Condition Management

Chapter 6: Work Execution Management

Chapter 7: Tales from the Shop

Chapter 8: Success Stories

Chapter 9: Conclusion

Appendix A: Resources