Tag Archives: RCM
RCM – Dashboards
The RCM Dashboard application (App) consists of five “sheets”: RCM Progress Failure Mode Detail Mitigation Task Detail Criticality Analysis, and Knowledge Management The following explanations will help you to begin using the visualization objects of each sheet. Each object (chart … Continue reading
Templates for speeding up RCM
In your living RCM offering do you provide models or templates for systems and components typical to the oil and gas industry? The short answer is yes. Generic templates may be used subject to the following cautionary note. A pre-packaged … Continue reading
RCM – detail and depth
When RCM analysts lack clear goals regarding the amount of detail (i.e. the number of failure modes) to include in the analysis or the depth of causality at which to identify a failure mode, an RCM review session can easily … Continue reading
What is the difference between RCM and LRCM?
You ask a very good question, and an important one. RCM was developed in the 1970s by Nowlan and Heap and revealed to the maintenance world in their pivotal work performed at United Airways under U.S. government contract. Their report, … Continue reading
Real meaning of the six RCM curves
You may be wondering about the famous “RCM curves” shown below in Figure 1. They are the Age-Reliability behavior curves which graph the Conditional Probability of failure against age. A common question is the following. “For the 139 items covered … Continue reading
Posted in Data and samples, RCM, Reliability Analysis, Theory and definitions
Tagged Optimization, RCM, Suspension, Weibull
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