Heinz P. Bloch

My books deal with Machinery Reliability Improvement, Maintenance Cost Reduction, and Failure Avoidance. There are now 20 full-length texts; they were issued in at least 45 Editions and with some having been translated into the Portuguese, Spanish, Russian and other languages. All of these texts explain in great detail how Best-of-Class (BoC) performers have reached their unparalleled expertise and profitability. Issued in late 2016, ISBN 978-0-12-809272-5 is the latest in a 34-year sequence of books. Its 784 pages clearly summarize both organizational and equipment selection/upgrade matters which embody the BoCs' competitive advantages. Every one of these books leaves behind the low-value re-telling of consultant-conceived generalities. Instead, ISBN 978-12-809272-5 and the earlier texts pride themselves in being actionable. In the decades since I joined the engineering profession in 1962, every one of the many hundreds of guidelines and procedures found in these texts has been implemented by the true BOCs. All are now explained in these highly relevant texts.