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  • 1.  Free pdf-book, "Maintenance Reinvented and Business Success"

    Posted 06-24-2019 09:47 AM

    I self-published the subject book so that I could make it available to download as a free pdf-book. Once you have a publisher, this ceases to be an option.

    The free pdf-book can be downloaded at https://analytics4strategy.com/mntcreinvented  If you wish, an almost free bound paperback copy can be purchased via Amazon.

    If you are thinking about writing a book, consider self-publishing. We all get so much free knowledge from the work of others, it's an opportunity to give something back.

    You can self-publish a book using MS Word and Adobe Acrobat. The outcome Adobe file can be made available by free pdf-book download and concurrently placed on Amazon, paid for with a small percent of the price at each sale. There is no inventory cost because each order can be fulfilled by firms such as Ingram's Lightning Source® print on demand service. Instructions to the process of self-publishing is available from the internet.



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    Richard Lamb
    Analytics4Strategy.com
    Houston TX
    832-710-0755
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  • 2.  RE: Free pdf-book, "Maintenance Reinvented and Business Success"

    Posted 06-24-2019 07:48 PM
    Does Amazon take care of the printing process on those or do you go through a publishing house on the bound copies?

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    VERNON WELCH
    Athens AL
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  • 3.  RE: Free pdf-book, "Maintenance Reinvented and Business Success"

    Posted 06-25-2019 07:39 AM
    Vernon, here is what happens. When you buy the book on Amazon, the on-demand-print service immediately gets the notice of your purchase, produces one book and mails it to you. You as the buyer will not notice the difference between a print on demand book or whether Amazon has inventory. 

    In fact, many books are now on-demand. Some information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_on_demand 





  • 4.  RE: Free pdf-book, "Maintenance Reinvented and Business Success"

    Posted 06-25-2019 09:22 AM
    ​Richard,
    I downloaded your book, look forward to reading it beginning to end.
    Thanks     John

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    John Cray
    Life Cycle Engineering
    N. Charleston SC
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  • 5.  RE: Free pdf-book, "Maintenance Reinvented and Business Success"

    Posted 07-01-2019 01:34 PM

    If you inspect its table of contents, you will get a sense of the free pdf-book, "Maintenance Reinvented and Business Performance." (https://analytics4strategy.com/mntcreinvented) You will be able to see, the topics step past the typical ones describing what is actually an incomplete body of maintenance best practices. Rather then just explain each business-connecting practice required to complete the body, each chapter describes in project-type form, generalized steps by which to reinvent the maintenance operation with the principles.



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    Richard Lamb
    Analytics4Strategy.com
    Houston TX
    832-710-0755
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  • 6.  RE: Free pdf-book, "Maintenance Reinvented and Business Success"

    Posted 07-09-2019 10:33 AM

    I wrote the book, "Maintenance Reinvented and Business Success," (https://analytics4strategy.com/mntcreinvented) when it had become possible to improve operational processes by tapping into the data (https://analytics4strategy.com/train-builddatatables) captured by operational systems (e.g., CMMS), but access to the knowledge, skills and software for data analytics had not yet emerged. If I were now writing the book, I would weave into it all that is explained at the website https://analytics4strategy.com/.

    The following three website tabs provide the pathway to the papers and slides, as content, that would appear in the post-emergence version of the book:

    • Training Sessions: What an organization "must know it must know" to bring its operations data-driven along with references for moving from knowing to ability.
    • New-Age Five Questions: Explains data analytics as being five types of questions that can be asked and answered of any operation, but we could not ask and answer until the emergence of data analytics.
    • Cost Control and Finance: Explains dual-dimensional workload-based budget and control for maintenance operations, preceded by introducing a financial framework so serve as the North Star.


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    Richard Lamb
    Analytics4Strategy.com
    Houston TX
    832-710-0755
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