Alfred Balaga
Operations Manuals for the work after commissioning
Maintenance as a value driver, not a cost center. The leadership transition nobody hands you a manual for.
Where the Standards Run Out
Value-Centered Maintenance
REFACTOR
Your dashboard says 99.2% availability. Your CFO wants to know why IRR is down 0.4%. This book closes that gap.
Traditional RCM asks how to prevent failures. VCM asks how to maximize stakeholder value while managing acceptable risk, translating maintenance decisions into IRR, NPV, and lifecycle cost, not writing the translation up after the fact.
Built from field cases across solar, BESS, and wind operations. For asset and maintenance leaders who are technically excellent and tired of losing the budget argument.
Most management books are written for people who wanted the job. This one is for engineers who got pushed into it.
REFACTOR treats the transition as restructuring, not replacement: an 8-step framework built from real management failures, not theory. Read Sunday, apply Monday.
Covers the parts nobody warns you about: information as currency, protecting your team at a cost to yourself, translating technical work into terms an executive will act on.
For new and first-time team leads still figuring out whether they're an engineer who manages people or a manager who used to be an engineer.
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