INTRODUCTION TO RELIABILITY CENTERED MAINTENANCE

• Establish asset functions
• Establish asset failures and failure modes.
• Conduct an equipment FMECA (S,O,D)
• Establish failure consequences.
• Establish RPN rating and ranking.
• Using the decision diagram for corrective action
• Reassessing the potential RPN (PRPN)
• Final resulting RPN (RRPN)

COURSE CONTENT

Module 1: Introduction to RCM.

• What is RCM.
• The core of RCM
• Brief history of RCM
• 7 basic foundation questions of RCM
• RCM is a five step process.
• 4 phase of RCM implementation.
• How to measure equipment reliability.

Module 2 : Develop equipment block diagram.

• List all main modules
• List all sub-modules.
• Identify all failure potential components in every module.

Module 3 : Develop phase – 1 functions and failure modes

• Determine function of components
• Establish the performance standard for every component
• Potential functional failures
• Failure modes causing the failures
• List all failure effects.

Module 4 : Develop phase 2 – conduct FMECA  and consequences

• Understand severity, occurrence and detection.
• Rating methodologies for S, O, D.
• Establishing the RPN.
• Failure consequences
• Safety consequences.
• Environment consequences.
• Operation consequences.
• Non-operation consequences.
• All hidden failure consequences

Module  5 : Develop phase 3 – determine proactive actions

• Establish the failure mode ranking
• Perform why? Why?  For every failure mode
• How to use the RCM decision diagram
• Brainstorm for permanent proactive actions.
• Test the solutions for effectiveness.

Module 6 : Develop phase 4  – assessing  PRPN   &  RRPN

• Establish new potential S, O, D.
• Determine what to do, when to do.
• Clearly assign responsibility.
• Perform proactive task.
• Determine actual resulting RRPN.