Category: Managing LRCM
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Service vs. maintenance
There is a noteworthy distinction between the activities of “maintenance” on one hand and “service” on the other. Maintenance is a partial or total renewal of an item. Maintenance reduces the physical age of an item or can even “zero time” the item by rejuvenating some or all of its components. By contrast, Nowlan and…
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Components of continuous improvement
The diagram illustrates that effective physical asset management depends on several categories of information and knowledge. The diagram points out the interaction among the standard components of maintenance management. These include: Knowledge base development (FMECA/RCM, troubleshooting aids, failure code tables, and safety related knowledge/) Work order management Condition and operation monitoring Analytic procedures These four…
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Streamlined RCM and LRCM
There is not a huge difference between the various flavors of the process of RCM (for example SRCM, JA-1011, Turbo RCM, and many others). The differences are mostly in terminology and details rather than in the actual concepts. The SAE JA-1011 minimum requirements for RCM provide the simplest, quickest, and at the same time the…
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Two philosophies in maintenance improvement
Maintenance managers improve performance in two ways, described roughly as: technology centric, and people centric. Technology The technology centric approach relies on two main types of information systems: automated testing and diagnostics, and work management systems Automated diagnostic systems provide infrastructure and contain logic to interpret equipment and process data correctly. Built-in logic and associated…