Category: Managing LRCM
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Waiting for CMMS maturity
One maintenance manager puts it this way: “Our CMMS system and our Techs using it have not achieved the level of maturity for it to be a valuable tool. The Techs input insufficient levels of detail into our CMMS. Thus, needed data for Reliability Analysis (RA) would be inaccurate or lacking completely. As such, time…
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LRCM Justification Template
Justifying an aggressive project in maintenance is always a challenge. The difficulty lies in the unclear relationship between maintenance activities and their quantifiable effectiveness with regard to organizational performance. The LRCM / EXAKT system provides the means to establish such a mathematical relationship. However, until such a system is in place we need to use…
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CMMS Impediments to Reliability Analysis
In the maintenance department of a reliability-obsessed and maintenance-intensive company, both RCM (Reliability-Centered Maintenance) knowledge and work order information are stored in different databases using different software packages. CMMS v.s. RCM The two software applications have different purposes: RCM knowledge software describes likely failure problems accurately and in as much detail as necessary, while The…
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LRCM and HSE
Safety, Health, and Environmental (SHE) disasters occur when numerous seemingly unrelated conditions and events coincide in ways that have received little or no serious attention by maintenance and operational staff. Still, executives and government regulators expect that a logical set of rules and procedures overseen by responsible management can avert the worst from happening. Yet…
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Data or reliability analysis is the main role of the Reliability Engineer (RE) in maintenance. In support of his quest for good data, the RE should organize and teach technicians, planners and supervisors how to complete maintenance work orders so that the data is “good”. This is not as difficult as it sounds. The key…