Tag: RCM
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RCM – Dashboards
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 or table) can be expanded to full screen using the double arrow icon on its…
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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…
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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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What is the difference between RCM and LRCM?
You ask a very good question, and an important one. RCM was developed in the 1970s by Nowlan and Heap and revealed to the maintenance world in their pivotal work performed at United Airways under U.S. government contract. Their report, entitled “Reliability Centered Maintenance”, was submitted on December 31, 1978 to the United States Secretary…
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Real meaning of the six RCM curves
You may be wondering about the famous “RCM curves” shown below in Figure 1. They are the Age-Reliability behavior curves which graph the Conditional Probability of failure against age. A common question is the following. “For the 139 items covered in the Nowlan & Heap (UAL) study, for example, do these curves represent the real…