Category Archives: Effects
RCM Consequences
01-01 While failure modes and effects analysis may have some small intrinsic interest of its own, 01-02 the reason for our concern with failure is its consequences.This was a statement from Nowlan and Heap’s RCM report in 1978. The idea … Continue reading
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Common cause failures in RCM
When performing RCM how should we handle “common cause failures”? A common cause failure has the same failure mode in common with another failure elsewhere in the hierarchy tree view of the RCM knowledge base. Their appear to be four … Continue reading
The role of media in living RCM
MESH LRCM provides an image gallery associated with each Failure Mode. The reason for this feature is directly related to practical Reliability Analysis (RA) which is why it is unique to LRCM. It is essential, for purposes of RA that … Continue reading
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Local, Next higher level, End effects
The FMECA process specified by MIL-STD-1629A provides a structured description of the Effects while the SAE JA1011 “minimum RCM” Effects are described by free text. One may question why LRCM chooses free text over the more stringent military structure The … Continue reading
Effects – alternate usages
In many RCM software applications the Effects has a different usage from that which we describe in many places throughout this website. For example, in one RCM software application, when you open up the properties of a given Failure Mode … Continue reading