Difference between LRCM and EXAKT

What is the difference in LRCM & EXAKT

1. EXAKT is software for performing Reliability Analysis (RA). RA is a general set of software enabled procedures used by Reliability/Maintenance Engineers to develop and deploy rules (called models). These models support, monitor, and systematize day-to-day decision making in maintenance.
2. However, RA, if it is to generate realistic decision models, requires data of a specific type and quality. LRCM is the work order and condition monitoring (CM) based process for ensuring that such data is automatically available for RA. Without LRCM RA tools and software are unusable because the needed data is unavailable. Poor quality age data at the failure mode level is the key obstacle to improved management of day-to-day maintenance.
3. What distinguishes EXAKT from other forms of RA is that it extends the dimensionality of conventional “age based” RA (e.g. Weibull, Pareto, Monte Carlo Simulation) to include (CM) data.
4. When RA accounts for both age and CM data it will support realistic decisions in maintenance. Decisions based on age alone are usually non-optimal leading to maintaining too soon or too late. Good age/CBM models, by systematically including the equipment’s current state in the decision process, enable maintainers to intervene at the right moment and on the right components.
5. It is necessary that the effectiveness of decision rules in maintenance be verifiable and reported so as to be continually improved.
6. Using EXAKT and LRCM the Reliability Engineer (RE) builds and deploys optimized models. An optimized model is one that supports the organizational maintenance objectives, specifically those related to high availability at low cost.
7. Using EXAKT / LRCM procedures and software the RE tracks and improves the effectiveness of those models

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