Terry Wireman Recommended Reading List

by Terry Wireman

Maintenance expert and Author, Terry Wireman is a great supporter of Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine and has contributed his knowledge and experience since we began in 1999.  Recently we requested that Terry create a list of books he would recommend for any maintenance and reliability professional who was striving for something greater.  This list he contributed follows and is linked to the MRO-Zone.com bookstore when possible and Amazon when not.  We hope you find value in this list and that you will leave a comment at the end of this article. 

Terry Wireman Reference Library


1. The Complete Handbook of Maintenance Management - John Heintzelman

2. Maintainability & Maintenance Management - Joseph Patton

3. Benchmarking Workbook: Adapting the Best Practices for Performance Improvement - Gregory Watson

4. Operations Management - Richard Schonberger and Edward Knod

5. Uptime - John Campbell and James Reyes-Picknell

6. Maintenance Time Management - John Criswell

7. Maintenance Engineering Handbook - Higgins

8. Facilities Operations & Engineering Reference - AFE and RSMeans

9. Facilities Maintenance Management - Gregory Magee

10. Best Practice Benchmarking: A Management Guide - Sylvia Codling

11. Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook - Doc Palmer

12. Maintenance Management for Quality Production - SME (Zakrzewski & Winter)

13. Tpm Development Program: Implementing Total Productive Maintenance - Nakajima

14. Equipment Planning for TPM (Maintenance Prevention Design) - Fumio Gotoh

15. P-M Analysis (An Advanced Step in TPM Implementation) - Shirose, Kimura, Kaneda

16. TPM in Process Industries (Step-By-Step Approach to TPM Implementation) - Suzuki

17. How to Measure Maintenance Performance - Sohei Hibi

18. Practical Machinery Management for Process Plants (Volumes 1 -4) - Heintz Bloch & Fred Geitner

19. Reliability Centered Maintenance - Anthony Smith & Glenn Hinchcliffe

20. Reliability Centered Maintenance II - John Moubray

21. Reliability Modeling - Chapman and Hall

22. Root Cause Analysis - Robert and Kenneth Latino

23. Theory of Constraints - Eli Goldratt

24. The Balanced Scorecard - Robert Kaplan & David Norton

25. The Strategy Focused Organization - Robert Kaplan & David Norton

26. Performance Dashboards - Wayne Eckerson

27. Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment: How to Improve Productivity, Quality, and Employee Satisfaction - William Byham

28. Maintainability: A Key to Effective Serviceability and Maintenance Management - Benjamin Blanchard

29. Availability Engineering & Management for Manufacturing Plant Performance - Richard Lamb

30. The Maintenance Strategy Series (Volumes 1-5) - Terry Wireman