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RCM Analysis: Steps and Guidelines

1. Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) is a process to preserve system functions through appropriate maintenance tasks. 2. The RCM process involves assembling a cross-functional team, defining the scope of equipment to be analyzed, gathering documentation, and answering 7 questions to identify functions, potential failures, failure modes, effects, and consequences. 3. The team then selects the most appropriate maintenance tasks like condition-based, preventative, or run-to-failure maintenance based on failure consequences and technical feasibility, and packages them into a workable maintenance plan.

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RCM Analysis: Steps and Guidelines

1. Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) is a process to preserve system functions through appropriate maintenance tasks. 2. The RCM process involves assembling a cross-functional team, defining the scope of equipment to be analyzed, gathering documentation, and answering 7 questions to identify functions, potential failures, failure modes, effects, and consequences. 3. The team then selects the most appropriate maintenance tasks like condition-based, preventative, or run-to-failure maintenance based on failure consequences and technical feasibility, and packages them into a workable maintenance plan.

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  • Act and Sustain Stage: Focuses on implementing maintenance tasks, monitoring performance, and reviewing metrics for continuous improvement.
  • Prepare and Define Stage: Discusses the initial steps of assembling a team, reviewing functions, and defining RCM analysis boundaries to set up reliability centred maintenance.
  • Analyse Stage: Covers identifying functions and failures in systems, analyzing failure modes, and evaluating effects and consequences.

HOW TO 

PERFORM A
RELIABILITY CENTRED 
MAINTENANCE (RCM)?
Preserve system functions through the most appropriate maintenance tasks

PREPARE AND DEFINE STAGE

1. Assemble a cross-functional 2. Select the equipment to be analysed


RCM team What is the scope of the RCM analysis?
The size of the team is adequate for an What are the system boundaries and the
effective RCM analysis without wasting relationships between all major
resources and/or making the team out of components or subfunctions?
control (usually 4 to 5 people). Which equipment is most valuable for
you to analyse with RCM first?

4. Gather and review relevant


3. Define ground rules of team
documentation
management and assumptions of
the RCM analysis e.g., system P&IDs, manuals, equipment
history, work order summary etc.

ANALYSE STAGE
Answer SAE JA1011 7 Questions

5. Identify functions 6. Identify functional failures 7. Identify failure modes


What does the selected equipment do How can the selected equipment fail what are the specific causes of the
and what is the acceptable level of to fulfil one or more intended function(s) functional failures you have listed in
performance you want to achieve? to a standard of performance?  step 6?

9. Identify and categorise 8. Identify failure effects


failure consequence What happens when failures occur
How and why does the failure and what are the symptoms of
matter? failure?

10. Select Maintenance tasks


Condition-based
Is the loss of function cased by this Maintenance
failure mode on its own Hidden or
Evident to the operator/crew under
normal circumstances? Failure-Finding
Inspections
Will the failure have a direct and
adverse effect on Environment and Proactive Tasks
Safety or Economy? Preventive
Maintenance
Is a scheduled on-condition task
technically feasible and worth
doing?

Is a scheduled restoration or
discard task technically feasible Run-to-Failure
and worth doing?

Is a failure-finding task technically


Default Action Redesign
feasible and worth doing?

Based on SAE JA1012A Decision Diagram

ACT AND SUSTAIN STAGE

Package the most Choose time intervals at Continuously review the process
appropriate maintenance which groups of tasks can be to provide feedback and
tasks (from step 10) into a carried out most effectively measurement of progress toward
workable maintenance plan. and efficiently. asset management goals.

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