A business novel by Frank U. Hess
The Decision
A true and inspiring story of how maintenance people quietly build the right capabilities that break bad performance issues.
There are dozens of books about maintenance process and reliability engineering. There is only one book that perfectly tells the real story of a plant facing existential asset management challenges in a way that encapsulates the whole problem of people, process, and technology.
OCM - The Framework
The Golden Circle of Maintenance.
Three steps and a six princples way to turn maintenance into a strong capability your C-Suite will love. Learn from the business novel THE DECISION - more then 30 years of experience condensde.
Step 01
Read the plant - understand the origin of you problem.
Walk the floor. Watch what breaks, what bottlenecks, who improvises, who ignores. The data you need is already there — you just have to catch it.
- Walk the floor
- Failure pattern logs
- Reliability for Operators
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A note from Frank
I wrote the business novel “The Decision” because over more than 30 years I have repeatedly seen that companies don’t fail because their assets lack technical capability – but because of the people behind them and the decisions they make. The novel shows that, even amid chaos and firefighting, high performance can be rebuilt. OCM is not a new management methodology, and it does not replace RCM. It is simply six basic principles that – when applied correctly – revitalize your team and organizational performance.
– Frank
Packed with powerful ideas, strategies and real life examples. The story will teach you how to make small changes that will transform your dead-end situation into a High-Reliability-Organization with remarkable results.