Category: RCM
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RCM – detail and depth
When RCM analysts lack clear goals regarding the amount of detail (i.e. the number of failure modes) to include in the analysis or the depth of causality at which to identify a failure mode, an RCM review session can easily bog down and consume valuable time. The facilitator must guide the analysts along a path…
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RCM – Implementing the analysis results
RCM analysis relies in great measure on keen participation by representatives from two key groups: 1) The users (primarily the operators of the physical asset, and 2) the maintainers. The persons selected to carry out RCM analysis bring years of intimate knowledge of the asset, which they will recall at opportune moments within the process…
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RCM Facilitation
The facilitator is the individual most responsible for the success or otherwise of the RCM effort. He needs to have acquired a set of specialized skills that we will discuss in the following slides. Primary function of the facilitator (slides) The facilitator guides the analysis sessions with a light but determined hand. He…
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RCM – Facilitation
If we wish to perform Reliability Analysis on the Failure Modes of a rotable component, say an engine, it may be moved into its own branch on the RCM/EAM asset structure tree. Since the EAM tracks the component’s working age as it migrates from location to location the (age and condition based) failure behavior of individual failure modes (parts)…
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RCM Worksheet Guide
Time is of the essence when performing RCM analysis. The RCM team (aka “review group”) must stay focused. They must avoid tangents into unnecessary detail yet extract from their collective experience the vital knowledge of the asset’s failure behavior. The RCM Worksheet Guide can help to keep the analysis on track.