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Many companies are aware of the potential
benefits arising from Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and the
horror stories of high cost/low delivery initiatives. While recognizing
we are all under an obligation to reduce costs, it should be recognized
that cost reduction is not the driver behind RCM. The prime
deliverable of RCM is improved availability for both production and
safety systems. However, successful Companies also experience that
these availability increases are accompanied by a substantial
reduction in costs in perhaps 80% of cases.
So how are these benefits achieved? In
addition to proper project management, involvement of the local staff
& management and good facilitation (ideally by your own trained
staff) RCM will not success without two other critical factors:
Compliance and Craft Skills.
Compliance means actually doing the
planned maintenance at, or around, the planned frequency. Skills,
which includes competence, motivation and proper tools, ensures that
the job is done well.
The use of Gain Share incentives only
go part of the way in this respect. The results of RCM must
make the transition from analysis to the site maintenance program and
when they are there, they must be carried out roughly on time
by properly trained, equipped and motivated craftsmen. It is not
correct to focus on problems with the RCM process when the reasons for
limited results delivery may lie elsewhere.
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