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Articles: Reliability-Centered Maintenance

RCM, the Navy Way for Optimal Submarine Operations

Tragedy at Sea

On January 8, 2005 the USS San Francisco was transiting the open waters of the Pacific when she experienced arguably the heaviest blow to befall a US Navy submarine in decades. Unbeknownst to the ship’s crew an undersea mountain lay directly in her path. Suddenly the ship slammed bow first into the obstruction at 30 or more knots - severely damaging the vessel and injuring most all aboard.

Reliability Beyond Maintenance

Originally presented at Reliability 2.0

by Henry Ellmann

Reliability started with Physical Assets, and now spreads into all business endeavours some decades ago in the Maintenance environment. Lately it is being realized that expanding the Reliability concept into other –or all– business areas, major benefits can be achieved.

Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) in the Facilities Environment

The role of RCM in the facilities (non - production) environment as expected varies dramatically with the age and type of facility being operated and maintained thus, the type of RCM to be applied must be carefully decided to ensure both tangible and intangible benefits will be realized within the budgetary constraints of the organization. In addition, the dynamics of the organization where RCM is being considered must be considered before selecting the optimum approach. For example, an organization involved in large scale construction and/or renovation will have substantially different requirements and resultant business case than one focused on sustaining the status quo via a maintenance and minor repair approach.

Reliability Centered Maintenance Project Managers Guide

This document provides vital tips on timing, avoiding pitfalls leading to potential failure and metrics information for use by anyone contemplating becoming a "champion" of a Reliability Centered Maintenance initiative within their organization.

Reliability Centered Maintenance report by F Stanley Nowlan and Howard F Heap

The orginal Reliability Centered Maintenance report by F. Stanley Nowlan and Howard F. Heap

Reliability-Centered Maintenance and Root Cause Analysis: Working Together to Solve Problems

Mark Galley, Cause Mapping®, ThinkReliability
Douglas J. Plucknette, RCM Blitz™, Allied Reliability, Inc.

As plants around the world strive to reduce maintenance costs and prevent incidents and accidents, they often turn to various reliability tools to speed the road to improvement. Reliability tools first help identify where losses are, then develop procedures to mitigate the losses and, thus, improve equipment reliability and performance.

Reliability-Centered Maintenance Mindset (RCM2) The Cognitive Psychology of Maintenance Development

The Building Blocks of a Maintenance Philosophy

by Michael Rezendes, Raytheon Technical Services Co.

Originally Presented at the Reliability 2.0 Conference 

1. Introduction

The focus of this paper is to familiarize the reader with the concept of Reliability-Centered Maintenance Mindset (RCM2) as a methodology to focus attention on the maintenance developer. The current methodology of RCM in industry today is focused on the Preventive Maintenance (PM) developed for hardware. RCM2 is the methodology applied to the selection and training of the potential maintenance developers. This paper will discuss how a successful preventive maintenance program starts with the maintenance developer.

Shedding Light on RCM Facilitation - Answers to Commonly Asked Questions

by Doug Plucknette

Having facilitated hundreds of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) events over the past fifteen years, I have heard a lot of questions running the gamut of topics from right on target to a little off base. However, I do believe that any question is a good question if it helps participants better understand the RCM process. While the questions do vary widely, in the following pages, I will discuss the ten most commonly asked. . . .

Shedding Light on RCM Facilitation - Answers to Commonly Asked Questions

Having facilitated hundreds of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) events over the past fifteen years, I have heard a lot of questions running the gamut of topics from right on target to a little off base. However, I do believe that any question is a good question if it helps participants better understand the RCM process. While the questions do vary widely, in the following pages, I will discuss the ten most commonly asked. . . .

Successful RCM Application – Lessons Learned

The authors, having been involved with RCM from its first introduction to the U.S. commercial and industrial world in the early 1980s, have experienced virtually every characteristic that contributes to successful and likewise not-so-successful RCM programs. In this chapter, we will attempt to give you the benefits of our 35-plus combined years of RCM experience and the lessons we and others have had to learn along the way. It is our hope that, by knowing where the more significant potholes lurk, you may avoid them. Our discussion here will focus on four of the key Lessons Learned, but we encourage you to see our entire discourse on this subject in Reference 1, pages 203-221.

Taking Care of Business

The Benefits of Implementing Reliability Engineering

by Fernando Vicente

Over the past several years, reliability has become an ever-increasingly important topic and component in the organizational continuous improvement tool box.  Higher plant reliability reduces process and equipment failures,  and as we all know, failure disruptions decrease production output, which in turn, limits gross margin.  Additionally, equipment failures also increase the probability of having a catastrophic environmental accident and the potential for increasing safety related accidents.

 

The 10 Commandments of RCM - Keys for the Success of an RCM Implementation Project

-The 10 Commandments of RCM - Keys for the Success of an RCM Implementation Project

The Age of the RCM Analyst - From Isolated Specialist to Integrated Knowledge Manager

When the RCM standard was published in 1999¹ it laid to rest many of the more contentious issues regarding what RCM is and what it isn't. Finally there is a standard that companies can use to determine which process could legitimately call itself RCM, and therefore were more likely to represent the original intentions and focus contained within the RCM methodology. This was a crucial step in the evolution of the RCM method particularly as setting minimum criteria eliminates methods that are either counter-productive, with respect to the original RCM report, or even dangerous.

The Case Against Streamlined Reliability Centered Maintanance

1 Introduction

Reliability-centred Maintenance (RCM) is a process used to determine what must be done to ensure that any physical asset or system continues to do whatever its users want it to do. This process finds its roots in work done by the international commercial aviation industry. Driven by the need to improve reliability while containing the cost of maintenance, this industry developed a comprehensive process for deciding what maintenance work is needed to keep aircraft airborne. This process evolved steadily since its early beginnings in 1960.

The Elusive P-F Curve

J. Moubray coined the phrase  "P-F interval". He used it to highlight two pre-requisites of CBM, namely:

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