This manual introduces you to the concepts of reliability management. The purpose of the handbook is to provide you with an overview of the tasks your organization needs to accomplish to achieve reliability excellence. So the issues and language of reliability must be related to the issues and language of the financial world. Therefore, a portion of this handbook examines how reliability improvements can result in increased production revenues, decreased production expenses, and reductions in net asset values. All of these will result in improvements in the financial performance of the company.
Many organizations take too narrow a view when implementing reliability programs.
This handbook takes a broader view. To achieve reliability excellence, all portions of the organization must work together. This includes not only the maintenance organization, but operations, engineering, procurement, stores, and all other organizations of the company. Without this coordinated, integrated effort, the organization will not realize all of the improvements that are possible. Therefore, the concepts discussed in this handbook are based on the following broad principles for achieving reliability excellence.