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Why RCM in Healthcare?

Why RCM in Healthcare?

Transform Healthcare with RCM: A Path to High Reliability

Reliability Centered Design through Maintenance Conscious Engineering (MCE)

Reliability Centered Design through Maintenance Conscious Engineering (MCE)

This presentation aims to provide guidance on implementing Rcd (Reliability Centered Design) through MCE (Maintenance Conscious Engineering) concepts and processes that can be transformative to improving effectiveness and sustainability of assets for their entire lifecycle.

RCM Best Practices for Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals

RCM Best Practices for Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals

With the acceptance of alternative maintenance strategies (AEM) for healthcare and pharmaceutical facilities, reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) is now the preferred method of documenting best practices for preventive maintenance (PM).

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Conducting Asset Criticality Assessment for Better Maintenance Strategy and Techniques

Conducting Asset Criticality Assessment for Better Maintenance Strategy and Techniques

Conducting an asset criticality assessment (ACA) is the first step in maintaining the assets properly. This article addresses the best maintenance strategy for assets by using ACA techniques.

RCM Standards: Useful Tool or Marketing Ploy?

RCM Standards: Useful Tool or Marketing Ploy?

The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Standard on Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM), SAE JA1011, generates a lot of discussion wherever RCM is discussed.

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RCM Failure Charts: Age Related or Random

Observations of age-related and failure curves with suggestions for developing a strategy for avoiding failures and managing impending failures.

RCM, PMO and FMEA: What Is the Difference?

RCM, PMO and FMEA: What Is the Difference?

The use of acronyms though helpful at times also creates confusion. This discussion will clarify the differences and the similarities in the terms RCM, PMO, and FMEA. Additionally, we will discuss the appropriate use of these methods.

FRACAS An Essential Ingredient for Reliability Success

FRACAS An Essential Ingredient for Reliability Success

In this presentation, we will briefly discuss the history and the role of failure reporting, analysis and corrective action system (FRACAS) in a reliability program, as well as its links to other methods such as RCM and reliability analytics.

A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Proactive Maintenance Using Classical RCM

A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Proactive Maintenance Using Classical RCM

The RELIABILITY Conference Learning Session 37:29
by Neil Meyer and Clint Shima, Central Contra Costa Sanitary District

This session relates a SUCCESS story at the Central Contra Costa Sanitary District (Central San) on the use of Classical RCM to optimize our Treatment Plant Proactive Maintenance. This plant, originally created in 1946, today services 500,000 customers and treats 55 million gallons of wastewater daily with a 24/7 operation. Our mission to protect public health and promote environmental stewardship is supported by efforts to continuously improve overall maintenance effectiveness and asset reliability over the life cycle of the asset. The Classical RCM process is a natural path to pursue in this regard because it initially uses the 80/20 rule to identify the "bad actor" critical systems. It then systematically defines their system functions and the specific equipment failure modes that require proactive PM tasks to avoid high consequence safety, environmental and outage functional failure issues. The project discussed herein is part of an asset management program at Central San that focuses on establishing a framework for Central San to improve maintenance efficiency and functional reliability of assets that is a repeatable program with documented processes and procedures. How this is achieved is described in detail.

Discover Defect Elimination Through Effective Reliability Leadership

Discover Defect Elimination Through Effective Reliability Leadership

Focused Forum from IMC-2015 - 28:47
by Jeff Shiver, People & Processes

Thinking back over your career, you have probably lived through (and survived) many initiatives that ultimately required some level of culture transformation. Surely you recognize the tools; reliability centered maintenance, root cause analysis, total production manufacturing, lean, six sigma and theory of constraints, and so on. Often times, these initiatives were poorly funded and resourced. Add to that the competing objectives with cost cutting and downsizing, not to mention multiple objectives at the same time. It’s not unlike management throwing spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks. Reality is that most doesn’t. So it’s not surprising that 70-75% of initiatives fail to yield the anticipated results. I’ve been there and done that too.

If we consider our goals, they are somewhat straightforward. Engage the people, meet the customer requirements, and generate profits for the business. To do that, we need reliability in all things; the people, the equipment, and the processes. But reliability does not come from fixing things faster or planning the work as examples. The reliability we seek comes from defect elimination in all those things; the people, equipment, and processes. If we consider these defects, the majority are random and driven by behaviors. Behaviors translate to culture. Culture beats strategy hands down. The challenge becomes not changing but transforming the culture, transforming the behaviors. People buy-in to change when they help create it. So, rather than a top down “thou shalt” strategy, we have to provide a compass for change. Creating that compass and engagement requires leadership, Reliability Leadership.

Solutions 2.0 2015 - RCM Project Manager’s Guide

Solutions 2.0 2015 - RCM Project Manager’s Guide

Solutions 2.0 Conference 2015 - 41:29
By Derek Burley, Blue Sky Reliability Consulting

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