Preventive Maintenance: Design and Optimize Your Maintenance Schedule (The Reliability Framework: English-Language Edition)

By Martin Van den Hout

Stop paying for failures that could have been prevented

Machines fail without warning, production lines go down, technicians replace parts under pressure. This reactive approach costs hundreds of thousands of dollars every year, undermines delivery reliability, increases energy consumption, and makes compliance impossible. But how do you design a preventive maintenance program that works for your entire organization?

A systematic approach in eight concrete steps
This practical handbook guides you through the complete process of effective preventive maintenance. Sarah Shoemaker's transformation of TechPro Manufacturing - from 70% reactive to 70% preventive in six months - runs as a thread through the entire book.

What you will learn: Define requirements - translate vague expectations into measurable targets for availability and riskAsset inventory - systematically map all assets with logical codingCriticality ranking - determine which assets deserve priority using a scoring matrix for safety, environment, production, and costMethodology selection - RCM for critical assets, Industrial RCM for important assets, a pragmatic approach for standard assetsFailure mode analysis - the six failure patterns according to Nowlan & Heap, technical aging, and lifespan distributionMaintenance types - time-based, condition-based, inspection techniques, NDT methods, IoT and digital monitoringEconomic optimization - cost-benefit analysis, optimal intervals, investment decisionsImplementation - from analysis to executable schedule with a 6-month roadmap for rapid resultsProven results30-50% reduction in unplanned downtime20-30% lower total maintenance costs15-25% improvement in Overall Equipment EffectivenessROI of 150-300% within 18 months5-15% energy savingsAutomatic compliance with ISO 9001, ISO 55000, and regulatory requirementsWho is this book for?
For technical managers and engineers in maintenance, reliability, and asset management. From maintenance managers to reliability engineers and plant managers - everyone who wants to transform from reactive to preventive. Universally applicable in manufacturing, process plants, facility management, infrastructure, hospitals, utilities, offshore, and data centers.

Practical and immediately applicable
Each chapter contains step-by-step procedures, scoring models, decision trees, practical examples, and checklists. Unlike theoretical handbooks or conceptual consultancy frameworks, this book gives you concrete tools to get started without external help.

Part of a larger whole
This is the fifth volume of The Reliability Framework, a nine-book series covering maintenance and reliability. Each book covers one subject systematically and in depth. Pairs well with Volume 4 (Root Cause Analysis in Maintenance), Volume 7 (Precision Maintenance), and Volume 8 (Engineering for Reliability).

About the author
Martin Van den Hout has 35 years of experience in maintenance and reliability, including 24 years as a consultant for organizations worldwide. He worked in Japanese production plants where TPM was developed and in British chemical companies implementing RCM. He wrote a leading university-level textbook on maintenance management and delivers in-company training programs. His pragmatic approach combines international methodologies with hands-on industrial experience.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9083643166
• ISBN13: 9789083643168
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Vulcanus Press
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"