A free sample from Maintenance Tactics, Book 3 of the NJN Consulting Asset Management Series.
Not every asset deserves a time-based PM. Not every failure mode warrants condition monitoring. Some assets should be run to failure with monitoring — and some shouldn't be on a PM schedule at all. Book 3 is the structured methodology for making these decisions defensibly, asset by asset, failure mode by failure mode.
This volume is the technical heart of the series. It assumes you have read Book 1 (Operating Model) and Book 2 (Asset Criticality), and it gives you the methodology — FMECA, RCM, the Six Tactic Types — to turn a criticality register into a working maintenance programme.
A practitioner's guide.
Chapter 1 · What Are Maintenance Tactics?
Plus 9-12 further chapters covering the full pillar — see book pages for the complete table of contents.
A Maintenance Tactic is a specific type of maintenance activity applied to a specific asset or sub-assembly to manage the risk of a particular failure mode. The word "tactic" is deliberate — it implies a considered, context-specific decision, not a generalised policy.
PAMF Definition: "Maintenance Tactics are the compilation of the maintenance actions necessary to maintain the reliability and availability of physical assets required to meet business objectives."
Asset management practitioners often use conflicting language for tactics, strategies, and approaches. The terminology this series uses is precise: a Strategy sets the overall intent for reaching improved AM maturity; a Tactic is the specific maintenance action that delivers on it.
FMECA, RCM, and the Six Tactic Types — the technical methodology for picking the right strategy per asset and failure mode.
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