Industrial and manufacturing wellness : the complete guide to successful enterprise asset management / Mike Sondalini.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-288) and index.

Reliability of work, processes, and machines -- The physics of failure -- Variability in outcomes -- Preventing life-cycle risks -- Process 1-identify business and operational risks -- Asset management for plant wellness -- Operating equipment risk assessment -- Process 2-order risks by importance -- Removing risks and raising reliability -- Chance reduction risk management -- Selecting reliability strategy -- Process 3-numerate risk elimination options -- The accuracy-controlled enterprise -- Precision maintenance skills and standards -- Process 4-introduce risk control solutions -- Reliability growth -- Measuring to improve performance -- The chance of success -- Process 5-control operational processes -- Failure root cause prevention -- Change management for workplace innovation -- Plant wellness index -- Process 6-synthesize ideas to continuously improve.

Explains how to use Reliability Engineering principles to design and create companies that are robust, reliable, self-improving, integrated business systems best suited for getting maximum success in today's and tomorrow's world.