Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) is commonly used to help establish safe minimum levels of maintenance, determine changes to operating procedures and help establish maintenance regimes and plans. Successful implementation can result in cost savings, machine uptime and improved risk management. But the devil's in the detail - how can you achieve these benefits and successfully implement RCM in your organisation? This programme will help you do just that.
Note: this is a purely indicative outline. The content, duration, objectives and material used can all be adapted to match your specific requirements.
To provide a better understanding of RCM, particularly:
What, why, how and who?
Opportunities and benefits
Risks
Cost effectiveness
Note: this is a purely indicative outline. The content, duration, objectives and material used can all be adapted to match your specific requirements.
1 What is maintenance?
Why maintain?
Traditional maintenance methods
Common current practices and trends
2 What is Reliability Centred Maintenance?
Its history
Its development
Current usage
Where can it be cost-effective?
3 How does it work?
Basic features
Key criteria
Maintenance options
Key outcomes
4 Making the business case and preparing the strategy
Identifying and quantifying current risks
Identifying and quantifying current costs
Motivating decision-makers
Identifying and empowering those who have to deliver the results
Educating / gaining buy-in from interested parties
5 Implementation
Identify business functions
Prioritise functions
Verify correct usage
Identify failure modes
Identify the consequences of failure
Understand the failure process
Specify the appropriate maintenance action(s)
6 Ongoing requirements
Monitoring
Recording
Analysis
Continuous re-evaluation
7 Open discussion
Sharing experience and addressing specific issues of interest to participants
Course review
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