Category: LRCM
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Leading and lagging performance numbers
One point of discussion is the role of high level (lagging) KPIs. In mining, over the last decade, given the unrelenting world demand for resources, the KPI of greatest concern has been Availability, almost to the exclusion of other considerations. This view can falsify conclusions about real maintenance performance. One example concerns the shovels which…
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LRCM – off the maintenance improvement radar
Are we marching to a different drum?. Why is LRCM out of step with the established community of reliability experts and authors. If it is so good why haven’t the others caught on? The obvious strategy of treating work orders as instances of RCM knowledge base records and growing the knowledge base dynamically as a…
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Reliability engineer’s work cycle
LRCM changes, in a fundamental way, how our reliability engineers work. Previously the job cycle proceeded in the sequence: Decide what type of reliability analysis should be applied. Extract, clean, and convert data into an analyzable sample as required for the analysis chosen, for example, an Events and Inspections table for an EXAKT analysis. Perform…
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How does LRCM “improve” RCM?
Difficult discussions take place whenever people engage in the reconciliation of theory with practice. In many maintenance situations, the reality of a given maintenance event will be at odds with the current structure of the RCM hierarchy. The failure mode will be identified at one level of causality in the RCM knowledge base and at…
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How to start LRCM
Most large maintenance organizations have a history of pursuit of excellence on the cutting edge of maintenance management. They are avid consumers of maintenance technology, their staff read maintenance related magazines, and they attempt to implement most of the new ideas that they find there. These often include: Condition monitoring, design for reliability and maintainability,…