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RCM in Uncharted Waters

by Abayomi Carmichael CEng MBA BEng, Bermuda Electric Light Co. Ltd.

There is an abundance of data supporting the effectiveness of RCM in a broad range of industries. Yet when staff at the Bermuda Electric Light Co. Ltd researched RCM, precious little data was found regarding its application to a primarily large diesel driven power utilities. The company subsequently decided upon a PMO (Planned Maintenance Optimization) based approach with aggressive targets and timelines. 20% increase in productivity. Chop downtime in half. Deliver this within 1 year. All in unproven territory.

The Introduction of the I-P Interval

Moving Back On the P-F Curve to Maximize Maintenance Effectiveness

Douglas J. Plucknette
RCM Discipline Leader – Allied Reliability

My first introduction to equipment reliability came in 1988 at Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester New York. Jerry Haggerty one of the founding members of SMRP (Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals) had begun to assemble a steering committee of Kodak Maintenance professionals who would begin working together sharing information on equipment reliability. As a member of this team I remember well the emphasis Jerry put on understanding the P-F curve and the P-F interval. Jerry knew that if we could get our managers to understand the P-F curve we could begin to make the transition into predictive technologies and reduce the amount of reactive maintenance being performed at our plants.

Asset Management

2013 Uptime Award Winner: If Reducing Unplanned Downtime Is Your Goal, What Is Your Game Plan?

by Dragan Trivanovic & John Yolton

IS BETTER THAN 50 PERCENT accuracy an objective or goal for a condition monitoring program? Do you measure accuracy of recommendations as an output of your program? It is not unusual for paper mills with mature condition monitoring programs staffed by competent, skilled and experienced technicians to achieve over 95 percent accuracy in the prediction of a failure, and somewhat less accuracy, due to lack of knowledge and data, of the recommended corrective action, which for some, is still a whole lot better than flipping a coin. But how about a goal of zero unpredicted failures?

Asset Management

Asset Integrity: What to do after an Economic Crisis

Being Prepared

Most companies have reduced cost during these tough economic times in order to survive, shutting down equipment, lay off staff, extending time between rebuilds and preventive maintenance without thinking about the preparation they should be taking in order to take advantage of the economic turnaround. There will be winners and losers once the world economy turns around. Companies who are prepared will win by shutting down their competition, demonstration profits never heard of before. This can be obtained by focusing on "optimizing asset integrity at optimal cost".

PM Optimisation Maintenance Analysis of the Future - Part 2

The author, Mr Steve Turner, is a professional engineer who has been extensively trained in RCM methods and has deployed them over a 20 year period in various roles as an airworthiness engineer, a maintenance manager, as part of a design team and as a consultant. Over the past five years, Mr Turner has developed a process of PM Optimisation known as PMO2000. This method is currently in use at 12 major industrial sites in Australia and the Asia Pacific Region.

Is Stock Turns the OEE of Spares Management?

Imagine for a moment that you oversee three production facilities. Imagine that these facilities require significant capital investment and sit on sizable and valuable blocks of land. Imagine also that each of these facilities produces nearly identical product that is all channelled through a single central distribution center. Now imagine that each facility operates for one shift per day, five days per week and has done so for years because the market is mature and steady. If it were your money invested in these facilities, what would you?

The Age of the RCM Analyst - From Isolated Specialist to Integrated Knowledge Manager

When the RCM standard was published in 1999¹ it laid to rest many of the more contentious issues regarding what RCM is and what it isn't. Finally there is a standard that companies can use to determine which process could legitimately call itself RCM, and therefore were more likely to represent the original intentions and focus contained within the RCM methodology. This was a crucial step in the evolution of the RCM method particularly as setting minimum criteria eliminates methods that are either counter-productive, with respect to the original RCM report, or even dangerous.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Uptime Award Winners 2015

Recognizing the Best of the Best!

Uptime Magazine congratulates the following outstanding programs for their commitment to and execution of high quality Predictive Maintenance and Condition Monitoring Programs.

To read more about each company, download the Uptime Award Winners’ stories at: uptimeawards.com.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Breaking The Reliability Cycle Of Despair: The Application of Strategic Reliability Principles

By Jay Shellogg

Since the discovery of modern asset reliability principles, first detailed by F. Stanley Nowlan and Howard F. Heap in the mid-1960s, up until the latest evolution in the 1990s by John Moubray, some 30 odd years have passed, but with little rigorous adoption of these principles into the asset management strategies of North American industry. This article is intended to help explain why the adoption of these truths has been so hard to come by over these past 30 years and what it will take for the adoption of these reliability principles to occur.