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Articles: Reliability-Centered Maintenance

How the RCM Scorecard Morphed into The RCM Project Manager’s Guide

This paper describes the background, content, and use of a newly created document derived from the “Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Scorecard.” The RCM Scorecard document is organized around a set of metrics developed by Anthony M (Mac) Smith (author of the Reliability Centered Maintenance^[1] text and co-author (with Glenn Hinchcliffe) of RCM: Gateway to World Class Maintenance^[2]). The latter text addresses analysis during RCM projects and provides examples of metrics from many real (fully identified) clients.

Incorporating Reliability Centered Maintenance Principles in Front End Engineering and Design

Incorporating Reliability Centered Maintenance Principles in Front End Engineering and Design of Deep Water Capital Projects

Front End Engineering and Design comprises a logical progression from capital project selection through capital asset commissioning and operation. Project owners contract with engineering firms to provide capital project assessment, design, equipment selection, procurement and start-up. During each phase of Front End Engineering Design, (FEED) sound engineering judgment and industry "best practices" are applied to improve Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) and Operating Expense, (OPEX).

Leveraging Parallel Work Identification Strategies to Achieve Rapid Results

Work Identification and Asset Reliability

Most maintenance professionals would agree that applying a structured work identification methodology (can be taxing on an organization's resources in today's business environment which begs the question - What else is available to rapidly develop or validate maintenance programs for my asset base without jeopardizing the safety, environment, quality and production integrity of my plant?

Maintenance Management: A New Paradigm

This paper attempts to summarise fifteen of the most important areas of change which have occurred in the field of physical asset management over the past fifteen years.

Make Time For Reliability

Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it! How many times has your advanced condition-monitoring program uncovered the same failure? With the use of the latest hardware and software, Infrared Thermographers have become very proficient at detecting problems (hopefully before disaster strikes). Unfortunately these technologies do very little in terms of preventing the problem from occurring in the first place.

MCR!RCM - Looking at RCM in a Mirror

It is understood that RCM is the correct tool to apply to high risk assets. RCM is also applicable to assets that you have tried to develop maintenance programs for but failed. Quoting the current head of aladon RCM is applicable to approximately 15% of assets in 50% of industries. This would correlate to 7.5% of all assets require RCM. RCM is a powerful effort intensive tool that if applied properly will have high level results that if implemented, executed and followed up will insure cost effective maintenance. Even hard core RCM purists will not apply it to all assets. So if the 7.5% is correct then what should be applied to 92.5% of the remaining assets?

Missing a Key Player? The Role of Operations in Reliability Centered Maintenance

by Doug Plucknette and Paul R. Casto, CMRP

In today's economic environment, where companies around the world are tightening their financial belts to decrease costs while assuring plant safety and environmental protection, the key performance indicators of equipment and process reliability have become an important area in which to focus initiatives. While some companies got an early start in building reliability programs, the vast majority are just now getting educated about the benefits that equipment and process reliability can bring to their business. Those who have worked in the field for years understand that the word "reliability" means more than just having equipment and processes that run when needed. Reliability has a direct effect on nearly every aspect of your business. Reliable equipment costs less to maintain, produces higher product quality, is more energy efficient, and most importantly, reliable equipment and processes suffer less health, safety, and environmental incidents.

Missing a Key Player? The Role of Operations in Reliability Centered Maintenance

By Douglas Plucknette and Paul Casto

In today's economic environment, where companies around the world are tightening their financial belts to decrease costs while assuring plant safety and environmental protection, the key performance indicators of equipment and process reliability have become an important area in which to focus initiatives. While some companies got an early start in building reliability programs, the vast majority are just now getting educated about the benefits that equipment and process reliability can bring to their business.

New Equipment Purchasing Program

by Russell Combs, Allison Transmission

Reliability Centered Maintenance and New Machine Purchasing require a plan. You must know what the requirements for the machine tool vendor are and the vendor must know what is expected of them.

Only Leaders Can Provide Successful RCM

Reliability Training, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Root Cause Analysis, a successful manufacturing equipment reliability effort managed by leaders, these are all things companies hope for as they begin to learn about manufacturing reliability efforts and form organizations to support the effort.

Precision Based Reliability

In my many years of experience and throughout my travels I have done quite a bit of teaching and consulting on various Reliability related topics. Often I feel like the proverbial evangelist at a revival meeting. After all, the audience already knows the message - the true path to their salvation - the problem is in acting upon this knowledge and doing what is right, instead of pursuing what seems to be the easiest path to immediate gratification. Let's just fix the equipment instead of analyzing the reason why it failed for example. Like anything else worth doing, obtaining true Reliability takes a concerted effort. We all recognize that the potential rewards are tremendous. We are also acutely aware that there is a certain amount of pain and suffering that must be endured if we are to obtain what we so desperately desire. So let's dispense with the passing of the collection plate and get right to the message.

RCM & Purac America

RCM analysis is a powerful tool to change attitudes and practices for both maintenance and operations personnel. This case study examines how Purac America successfully used RCM to improve high cost, underperforming equipment. Maintenance spend fell from 7% of RAV to 4% of RAV and production increased from 50% to 133% of rated nameplate capacity.

RCM – A Biomedical Engineering Experience

The Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) is a 670 bed tertiary adult hospital providing specialist and trauma services to the people of South Australia and surrounding regions. The hospital in located over three campuses. The main campus, the North Terrace campus, is located on the fringe of the CBD.

RCM Blitz Analysis estimating tool

A Reliability-Centered Maintenance analysis should be viewed as a serious exercise for your business. An RCM analysis is an investment that takes time, resources and money to complete.

RCM in Uncharted Waters

by Abayomi Carmichael CEng MBA BEng, Bermuda Electric Light Co. Ltd.

There is an abundance of data supporting the effectiveness of RCM in a broad range of industries. Yet when staff at the Bermuda Electric Light Co. Ltd researched RCM, precious little data was found regarding its application to a primarily large diesel driven power utilities. The company subsequently decided upon a PMO (Planned Maintenance Optimization) based approach with aggressive targets and timelines. 20% increase in productivity. Chop downtime in half. Deliver this within 1 year. All in unproven territory.

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