Coming 2026
The Road to Reliability Excellence.
A Practical Handbook for Process Industry.
24 chapters. 290 pages. Everything I've learned in 25 years of building maintenance and reliability systems inside process industry plants. Not theory — methods I've tested, refined, and implemented. Written for practitioners, by a practitioner.
Karl Suni Vatnhamar
Author & Senior M&R Practitioner
What's Inside
24 chapters. Integrating TPM, Lean, RCM into one coherent system.
Organized in seven parts — from strategic foundation to operational transformation. Each chapter is a practical playbook you can apply directly.
Foundation & Philosophy
Why maintenance matters. The business case for reliability. Setting the strategic foundation before touching a single asset.
Strategic Foundations & Business Case
Maintenance strategy development. Asset criticality. Building the business case that gets leadership buy-in.
Work Management System
Planning, scheduling, and execution. Daily management systems. The operational backbone that makes everything else possible.
Proactive & Predictive Maintenance
From preventive to predictive. Condition monitoring. Operator rounds. Moving up the maintenance maturity curve.
Reliability Engineering & Problem Solving
RCM, FMEA, root cause analysis. The analytical tools that turn reactive firefighting into proactive prevention.
Digital, Organization & Enablers
CMMS optimization. Digital tools that actually help. Organizational design for maintenance excellence.
Sustainability, Performance & Transformation
KPIs that drive behavior. Sustainability integration. Leading the transformation from where you are to where you need to be.
Framework Preview
A practical playbook you can directly apply.
The Reliability Transformation Roadmap. A phased approach to moving your maintenance organization from reactive to predictive — without trying to change everything at once.
Assess
Maturity baseline
Months 1–2
Foundation
Work management
Months 3–6
Proactive
PM, PdM, RCM
Months 6–12
Optimize
Performance mgmt
Months 12–18
Sustain
Predictive excellence
Months 18+
Each phase builds on the previous. Skip a step, and the system won't hold.
Who This Book Is For
Written for the people who do the work.
Plant managers building a maintenance strategy
Reliability engineers looking for an integrated methodology
Maintenance managers moving from reactive to proactive
Continuous improvement leaders in process industry
Operations directors who need the business case for reliability
Consulting professionals specializing in operational improvement
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