This series will focus on the ‘been there, done that’ concept in order to provide readers with experiences and related trade-off decisions that those in the field have to make daily, between production processes and costs no matter what the policy or procedure states. The books in this new series will offer tips and tricks from the field to help others navigate their work in the areas of Reliability, Maintenance and Safety. The concept of ‘Work as Imagined’ and ‘Work as Done’, as coined by Dr. Erik Hollnagel (an author of ours), this series will bridge the gab between the two perspectives to focus on books written by authors who work on the front-lines and provide trade-off decisions that those in the field have to make daily, between production pressures and costs…no matter what the policy or procedure states. The topics covered will include Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Reliability, Maintenance, Safety, Digital Transformation, Asset Management, Asset Performance Management, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and Machine Learning (ML).
If you are interested in writing or editing a book for the series or would like more information, please contact Robert J. Latino, Prelical Solutions - [email protected] or Cindy Carelli, Executive Editor - [email protected].
By Robert Stevens
October 03, 2023
Nearly all our safety data collection and reporting systems are backwardlooking: incident reports; dashboards; compliance monitoring systems; and so on. This book shows how we can use safety data in a forward-looking, predictive sense. Predictive Safety Analytics: Reducing Risk through Modeling and...
By Randy Riddell
June 08, 2022
Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) is a method used by maintenance and reliability industry professionals as one of the key tools to drive improvement. This book offers a quick guide to the applications involved in performing a successful RCFA by providing a foundational view of maintenance and ...
By Sanya Mathura, Robert J. Latino
December 14, 2021
This book combines the topics of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Lubrication Degradation Mechanisms (LDM) with the goal of allowing the reader to develop the disciplined thought process for getting to the root causes of each of the degradation mechanisms. This new way of thinking can be applied to ...
By Sanya Mathura
November 30, 2020
In industry, owners, engineers and workers have struggled with lubricant degradation and its effects on their equipment. The purpose of Lubrication Degradation Mechanisms: A Complete Guide is to help personnel to understand the reasons behind the degradation of their lubricant, determine methods to...
By Kenneth C. Latino, Mark A. Latino, Robert J. Latino
September 11, 2020
Root Cause Analysis, or RCA, "What is it?" Everyone uses the term, but everyone does it differently. How can we have any uniformity in our approach, much less accurately compare our results, if we’re applying different definitions? At a high level, we will explain the difference between RCA and ...