Category: RCM
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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 the technician report Failures, Potential Failures, and Suspensions consistently. But how to distinguish between a Potential Failure…
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How much detail?
How many failure modes should we consider? When should we group failure modes to avoid excessive detail. John Moubray pointed out that this is one of the most difficult questions in RCM. And it comes up repeatedly in day to day history capture (Living RCM) as well… How much detail? on Prezi
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What is PM?
PM is a general term that encompasses all forms of pro-active maintenance including: scheduled overhaul scheduled inspections (CBM) CBM is the prominent form of maintenance today. Although all scheduled activities are called “PM” (for example, in the CMMS or EAM), they are predominantly CBM activities (inspections) performed, often, at the same time as scheduled service…
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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 Effects long text field is one of several aspects that set RCM apart from the…
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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 from the RCM Hierarchy tree view, an elaborate set of tabs is provided. One of…