Course Information

Course XIII - Reliability-Centered Maintenance Concepts - 2 Days

Introduction

Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) Concepts is a two-day introduction into the world of Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) which traces its roots back to the 1960’s when the Airline industry initiated one of the first analysis with the findings of Nolan and Heap.  As the tools used in Reliability-Centered Maintenance are often used to drive the Preventive Maintenance Optimization processes, this course helps the attendees learn practices and procedures to enhance overall equipment reliability based on SAE’s JA1011 and JA 1012 specification, along with other standards. In its simplest form as characterized by John Moubray, Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) as a process to establish the safe minimum levels of maintenance.

Reliability-Centered Maintenance is defined by the technical standard SAE JA1011, Evaluation Criteria for RCM Processes, which sets out the minimum criteria that any process should meet before it can be called RCM. This starts with the 7 questions below, worked through in the order that they are listed:

1. What is the item supposed to do and its associated performance standards?
2. In what ways can it fail to provide the required functions?
3. What are the events that cause each failure?
4. What happens when each failure occurs?
5. In what way does each failure matter?
6. What systematic task can be performed proactively to prevent, or to diminish to a satisfactory degree, the consequences of the failure?
7. What must be done if a suitable preventive task cannot be found?

Who should attend:

Organizational personnel who are accountable for implementing process and equipment change, or maintaining equipment, to include Engineers, Maintenance Managers and Supervisors, and Maintenance or Reliability Engineers.