Category: Training

  • Elevator description of LRCM

    Someone asked for a LRCM description that is easy to grasp in a short sales oriented narrative? In other words what is elevator pitch? Here it is. This might be a longer than average elevator ride, though: For many decades now, maintenance engineers have tried to harvest data to improve the reliability and cost of…

  • 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…

  • 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…