Tag: Continuous improvement
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RCM – feedback – suggesting a new failure mode
In the post “RCM – feedback suggestion mechanism” we described the steps for feeding back (and later accepting) a suggestion to modify the text of an RCM node, for example, a system, subsystem, component, function or failure. In this article we’ll extend the method to suggest and then add a new failure mode to an…
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RCM – feedback suggestion mechanism
The RCM review meeting is only one of many input mechanisms to a comprehensive, defensible, and dynamic maintenance plan. Between meetings or after the initial RCM project is over how can we continue to capture and document experience and insight from our SMEs in the field? Here is a procedure that SMEs (technicians, analysts, and…
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MESH Basic reliability analysis on the work order
Counting the instances of unreliability (i.e. of failure) describes the most basic form of reliability analysis. The RCM tree provides the most elementary portrait of the failure structure of an item. It would seem natural to combine both these sources of knowledge into a single view. That’s exactly what MESH does, every time a maintenance…
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MESH – RCM knowledge continuous improvement
What befalls the RCM analysis once it is completed and the ensuing PM program uploaded into the EAM? Too often it gathers dust, and fades eventually into distant memory. Only a pale reflection of the intensive mental energy expended in creating the knowledge rich RCM analysis remains in the form of EAM failure codes. What…