Category Archives: RCM

LRCM reliability technician survey results

Posted on July 19, 2016 by Murray Wiseman

These are the results of a survey of a group of 9 technicians tasked to interact with the new Mesh work order closure form. This alternative entry method, a feature of “Living RCM” is meant to improve data quality for … Continue reading →

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Inspections or CBM?

Posted on June 24, 2016 by Murray Wiseman

A maintenance professional comments: According to the definition that you provide, you would actually group inspections as CBM activities.  This is semantics I think, but the term condition-based maintenance would make me believe that it relates to an activity that … Continue reading →

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Common cause failures in RCM

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Murray Wiseman

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 →

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RCM – Dashboards

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Murray Wiseman

The RCM Dashboard application (App) consists of five “sheets”: RCM Progress Failure Mode Detail Mitigation Task Detail Criticality Analysis, and Knowledge Management The following explanations will help you to begin using the visualization objects of each sheet. Each object (chart … Continue reading →

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Templates for speeding up RCM

Posted on December 23, 2015 by Murray Wiseman

In your living RCM offering do you provide models or templates for systems and components typical to the oil and gas industry? The short answer is yes. Generic templates may be used subject to the following cautionary note. A pre-packaged … Continue reading →

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