Tag: LRCM

  • Templates for speeding up RCM

    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 FMEA or RCM analysis can contribute to the process as do other forms of technical…

  • EXAKT cost sensitivity analysis

    Progress seldom proceeds smoothly. It occurs in steps. A new strategy of some kind usually precedes each step. If the strategy is right the individual or organization moves forward and benefits. The wrong strategy, however, will generate decisions that delay or even reverse progress. Often the long term results of a strategy are not obvious.…

  • 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…

  • 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…