This is the 3rd of a series of books on World Class Maintenance Management - The 12 Disciplines that discuss about creating a solid partnership with operators. This book had to be written for industries to realize what they are missing. For as long as operators and maintenance in industries remain a separate function, Industries will continue to be reactive. This book does not only cover the principles and concept of Autonomous Maintenance, but provides the nitty-gritty details on how it is implemented starting from Step 0 to Step 7 which took me years to understand. My goal is to reach out to industries and convince them that these two cannot co-exists without each other and that it is time for both operators and maintenance to finally work together to improve not only the productivity but also the Reliability of their equipment and assets. Separating these two only creates feud and friction between them. Some highlights of this book includes:

- Why Operators are Important in the Reliability Strategy
- What Maintenance is all About
- Survey on Top Problems of Preventive Maintenance Revisited 2018
- Why Preventive Maintenance cannot prevent "ALL" failures
- Operations and Maintenance - Will the Feud Ever Stop?
- Reducing Human Errors in Maintenance
- Why Operations and Maintenance Went their Own Separate Ways
- Understanding Human Errors
- The Common Thing RCM and TPM Both Believes
- Strengthening Operator and Maintenance Partnership
- Detailed Guidelines in Implementing 7 Steps of Autonomous Maintenance
- Tips in Implementing Autonomous Maintenance
- Detailed Guidelines in Implementing the 4 Phases of Planned Maintenance
- Tips in Implementing Planned Maintenance
- Detailed Guidelines in Implementing RCM Analysis for Equipment
- Tips in Implementing the RCM Analysis
- Detailed Guidelines on How to Perform Root Cause Failure Analysis Probe
- Tips in Implementing Root Cause Failure Analysis
- Guidelines in Conducting Equipment FMEA/FMECA
- Tips in Implementing FMEA/FMECA
- The Biggest Missing Link in Any Reliability Strategy
- Changing the Image of the Maintenance Function
- It Will Definitely Take Time for Industries to Accept
- The Separation Needs to End, and a Partnership Needs to Begin
- How to Strengthen Operators and Maintenance Partnership
- Tips and Guidelines in Implementing TPM Focused Improvement and many more.

This book explains that operators will always the first line of defense on any equipment-related failures and breakdowns since they are the closest people that will experience the failure first before maintenance.

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