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Author of Everyday RCM articles and videos and offers Foundations of RCM course.


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What Kinds of Assets can RCM be Applied to?

What Kinds of Assets can RCM be Applied to?

Air, sea, space, land, or underground? Commercial, government, or military? Reliability Centered Maintenance has something for everyone!

Absolutely.  In fact, in Stanley Nowlan and Howard Heap’s book on RCM, they state:

The content of scheduled-maintenance programs developed by experienced practitioners of MSG-2 techniques may be quite similar to the programs resulting from RCM analysis, but the RCM approach is more rigorous, and there should be much more confidence in its outcome.  The RCM technique can also be learned more quickly and is more readily applicable to complex equipment other than transport aircraft.

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At What Point in an Asset’s Lifecycle Should RCM be Applied?

At What Point in an Asset’s Lifecycle Should RCM be Applied?

To maximize the benefits, RCM should be applied as early in the lifecycle as possible, beginning with the design stage. But, most RCM analyses are done on legacy assets – in other words – on assets that are already fielded. And many are initiated decades after the system was fielded – especially in the case of government and military equipment.

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What is Reliability Centered Maintenance?

What is Reliability Centered Maintenance?

RCM is one of the most powerful maintenance and reliability improvement processes out there. The name Reliability Centered Maintenance lends itself to a process that’s used to develop proactive maintenance for an asset – and it is. But RCM can be used to formulate scores of solutions that reach far beyond maintenance.

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Living the Essence of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)!

Living the Essence of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)!

What is the purpose of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)? Why do RCM? As Reliability professionals, we are not in the business of preventing all failures. Sometimes it’s impossible to predict or prevent some Failure Modes. But that doesn’t mean we can’t do anything about it. RCM helps us figure other actions we can take to manage the consequences of failure.

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