Corporate and site reliability teams face challenges and pressures to continuously improve and demonstrate the value and business impact they have on their organizations. The old adage of RCM being a “Resource Consuming Monster” has plagued many a Reliability Department – some organizations have even banned the use of the acronym.
Instead, RCM needs to be viewed as an engineering framework that enables the definition of a complete maintenance regime for maintenance task optimization.
Both public and private sector organizations around the world rely on reliability centered maintenance as a means to significantly increase asset performance by delivering value to all stakeholders. Successful implementation of RCM will lead to an increase in cost effectiveness, reliability, machine uptime, and a greater understanding of the level of risk that the organization is managing. It can also deliver safer operations, provide a document base for planned maintenance, and predict resource requirements, spares usage, and maintenance budget.
So, how do you equip your organization for best-practice reliability centered maintenance?
An RCM study determines the optimal maintenance strategy for assets determines by modelling different scenarios and comparing risks and improvements over this lifetime to enable better long-term management of the assets.
At a high level, an RCM Study involves:
Step 1: Developing an FMEA using collected failure data from a variety of sources, such as work order history, spares usage rates, interviews with personnel responsible for maintaining the equipment
Step 2: Combining data with OEM maintenance manuals and spares catalog information to develop a preliminary RCM model
Step 3: Making changes to the preliminary model during facilitation with the staff
Step 4: Validating and optimizing the RCM model by assessing each failure mode by the cost, safety, environmental and operational contributions to reduce cost and risk
Step 5: Building an maintenance plan that can be uploaded into your CMMS for direct integration of RCM with CMMS
This process will reveal any gaps in the existing maintenance strategy, or conversely deliver peace of mind that existing strategies are working.
Join us at the Reliability Summit, March 26-29, 2019, in Austin, Texas to learn how to manage reliability centered maintenance for your organization.
Attendees will learn:
RCM Skill Building
Why Traditional Maintenance cannot meet the needs of business today
Weibull Data Analysis
What is RCM and how does RCMCost deliver this methodology plus more
How to identify failure modes that can impact your plant
How to calculate failure data relevant to your equipment using Weibull feature in RCMCost
Assessing the total cost impact of failure on a business
How Preventive Maintenance and Predictive Maintenance improve business, safety, environment and operational risks
Simulating the maintenance strategy in RCMCost
RCM Skill Building Continued
How to select the optimum maintenance task and frequency
Exercises in RCMCost
Maintenance Decision making elements and sensitivities
This is one of many workshops attendees can select to attend at the Reliability Summit. For a full list of workshops, please visit our reliability improvement