Category: Training
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Two kinds of decision making in maintenance
In this article we hope to clear up some vagueness in the types of decisions that maintenance managers are required to make. We distinguish between two separate types of decision procedures used in the maintenance management domain. Tactical (short term) decisions answer the question: What maintenance, if any should we perform on a specified equipment…
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LRCM-EXAKT – a general solution
One might imagine that we can obtain practical improvement in maintenance performance quickly and inexpensively by concentrating on CBM technology for example, Oil Analysis. The supposition is reasonable but overlooks an obstacle that impedes verifiable and optimal CBM decision making in most maintenance organizations. In order to apply CBM we must have identified a condition…
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RCM – Living RCM
When most people discuss or practice RCM, they are really referring to initial RCM, the process by which the Functions, Failures, Failure Modes, Effects, Consequences, and mitigating actions are analyzed and documented based on the knowledge available to the analysts at the moment of analysis. The analysts’ recollections of the asset’s failure behavior are imperfect. It…
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RCM – Analyst course outline
1 Problem statement Day 1 8:30 – 9:30 When to maintain? (Slides) The basic problem Reliability attributes Wide versus narrow distribution Add a dimension Formal definition of CBM 2 Initial RCM Day 1 9:30 – 12:30 “Introduction” The definition of RCM (slides) The historical need for RCM Expanding expectations of Maintenance New understanding of asset failure…
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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…