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RCM: On-Condition Task Interval Determination

RCM: On-Condition Task Interval Determination

The highly structured RCM process is a proven approach for determining what must be done to any physical asset to ensure it continues to do what you want it to do in the present operating context. The first step of the task selection process starts by assessing the effects of the failure mode and classifying them into one of four broad categories of consequences. The next step identifies a proactive task that reduces the consequences of failure to the extent that it is technically feasible. The criteria used to judge whether an on-condition maintenance task is technically feasible are fairly consistent across the various compliant RCM processes. Specifically, RCM2™ uses the following yardsticks:

PEMAC Shares Insights in its First Whitepaper Focusing on Reliability Centered Maintenance KPI’s

MISSISSAUGA -- March 8, 2016 -- The Plant Engineering & Maintenance Association of Canada (PEMAC), a non-profit association providing global leadership, education and certification in asset management. Maintenance and reliability practices, announces the release of its first whitepaper entitled: Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) KPI’s for Measuring Success.  

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 LIRR Has Best Mechanical Performance Record in its History

LIRR Has Best Mechanical Performance Record in its History

MTA Long Island Rail Road today announced that in 2015 its rail cars achieved their best mechanical reliability since record-keeping began in 1981. The achievement marked the railroad’s 16th consecutive year of improvement for rail car reliability.

Last year, LIRR rail cars traveled an average of 208,383 miles between breaking down and causing a delay. That’s enough to circle the earth more than eight times! The number bests last year’s by more than 2,000 miles, and it was 18% above railroad’s goal of 176,000 miles.

Four Basic Principles of Genuine RCM

RCM should meet four basic principles to be considered a genuine application of reliability centered maintenance.

  1. The analysis is scoped and structured to preserve system function.
  2. The analysis

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Why Are People Afraid of RCM?

Why Are People Afraid of RCM?

It’s been nearly 20 years since I first learned about reliability centered maintenance (RCM). As part of the Kodak Park Maintenance and Reliability Team, I was one of a few people who volunteered to take a few courses in RCM and report back to the team on the viability of the tool. I had no idea at the time that two decades later, I would be facilitating and instructing RCM at companies in nearly every country around the world. It’s strange sometimes how quickly things change; one minute you’re a maintenance team leader and the next you’re facilitating reliability centered maintenance for a living.

RCM2 – Maxim5

RCM2 enables users/owners to develop specific maintenance programs to maximize asset life cycle reliability. Generic maintenance programs only applies to equipment with same operating context,

Breaking The Reliability Cycle of Despair Part 2

The Application of Strategic Reliability Principles

by Jay Shellogg

This article is a follow-up to one the author wrote for the December/January 2014 issue of Uptime magazine that explained some of the fundamental reasons North American manufacturing has not been able to sustain reliable asset performance. The author stated, "Since the discovery of modern asset reliability principles (first detailed by Nowlan and Heap in the mid-1960s) and 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." In that article, the author explained why the adoption of these reliability principles has been so difficult and what he thinks is required for the adoption of these reliability principles. In this article, the author will expound on those ideas, but warns that sacred cows are going to be slaughtered and it will be messy.

How Deep Do You Have to Go with RCM Analysis?

RCM facilitators sometimes struggle with the concept of different levels of analysis. Let's look at it this way - you only need to analyse to the level of depth that will enable your analysis

What is Your Barrier to Reliability?

If everyone in the organization all the way down to the custodian knows that a piece of equipment is troublesome, the solution can lie in simple PM optimization. Reliability-Centered Maintenance

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Reduce the Consequences of Hidden Failures

Revisit your electrical infrastructure’s short circuit coordination study (SCCS), determine if your critical breaker’s trip units have spares or can be upgraded to the manufacturer’s  latest. If

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Graphic Products Releases Warehouse Safety Hazards & Solutions Guide

The safety resource and training tool presents solutions based on OSHA standards. From forklifts, docks, and conveyors, to charging stations and hazardous chemcials, unsafe situations exist throughout a warehouse.

Do you have the Partnerships Necessary for Equipment Reliability?

Often in site meetings following the shifts where Production fails to make their numbers, all eyes shift to the Maintenance Manager to explain some equipment failure. Everyone is looking in the

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RCM - Levels of analysis

New facilitators often struggle with the concept of different levels of analysis. Let's look at it this way - you only need to analyze to the level of depth that will enable your analysis team to

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The Journey to Organizational Change - who’s got the map?

All too often organizations are attempting change or improvement efforts and yet, have no formal strategy or roadmap to get there.

Do you recognize that upwards of 70% of all failures are

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Safety Devices Which 33% Are You?

by Gordon Mains

When developing a maintenance strategy, the usual suspects are always at the forefront of time-based maintenance (TBM) activities in a periodic maintenance program (PMs), such as PMs for motors, pumps, compressors, diesels, valves, etc.

Updated! 2015 RCM Benchmarking Report

Updated! 2015 RCM Benchmarking Report

A Note from Terrence O'Hanlon, CEO and Publisher Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine:

"Reliabilityweb.com is excited about bringing its 2005 study on reliability centered maintenance (RCM) up to date in 2015 to track the advances that had been achieved in the ten years since the original study.

In my own work with Uptime Elements – A Reliability Framework for Asset Performance, I noticed fewer and fewer organizations with whom I was in contact applying reliability centered maintenance in order to develop maintenance strategies. I was hearing oft-cited excuses of excessive cost, exorbitant time, massive resource requirements and low management support as reasons why RCM had not been applied.

With release and publication of ISO 55001:2014 Asset management -- Management systems – Requirements, asset owners are being asked to ensure that they have policies, strategies and plans that ensure they fully understand how to create value from assets while balancing risk at a level that is acceptable to the organization."

RCM Providing the Line of Sight for ISO55000 Compliance

By: Tim Allen

The buzz at the 2014 International Maintenance Conference (IMC) in Daytona Beach, Florida, was the establishment of the ISO55000 asset management standard. Many reliability professionals who have been in the trenches for a long time gave enlightening presentations on just what this standard will do for our industry and most seminars were overflowing with attendees.

More Maintenance, More Safe Reliability

When we think safety and reliability we naturally think of the maintenance required to achieve the necessary levels of safety and reliability. The relationship between maintenance and safety and

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