Category: LRCM

  • Two LRCM purposes

    One of LRCM’s purposes is to guarantee high quality information from the CMMS with which to perform Reliability Analysis (RA). Systematic improvement of maintenance performance comes mainly from RA. RA analyzes and models the factors influencing failure in order to develop decision policies. RA also measures the performance of those maintenance decision policies, so that they…

  • The winning paper at the XIV International Congress of Maintenance

    On 18, 19 and 20 April the XIV International Congress of Maintenance 2012 was held in Bogotá, Colombia in April. Organized by ACIEM (www.aciem.org) experts in different areas of maintenance delivered ​​presentations to the attendees. They emphasized sound practices,  the management of maintainability, and the assessment of operational risk. Among the experts participating in the congress was  reliability specialist, Gerardo Vargas, who presented an account of a recent project at…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…