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Reliability-Centered Maintenance
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by: John Moubray
Topics include: scheduled discard, natural trace levels, operating crew under normal circumstances, proactive task cannot, scheduled restoration task, secondary default decision, consequence evaluation process, initial default decision, failure management policy, listing failure modes, present operating context, suitably trained technician, preventive task cannot, discard tasks, potential failure conditions, associated performance standards, conditional probability curve, defect reporting systems, task selection process, decision worksheet, single failure mode, asset hierarchy, specified age limit, task intervals, proactive tasks
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OVERVIEW
Initially developed by the aviation industry, RCM is rapidly becoming fundamental to the practice of maintenance management and is now in use at hundreds of industrial and service organizations around the world. This book provides an authoritative and practical explanation of what RCM is and how it can be applied. It is of vital importance to anyone concerned with productivity, quality, safety, and environmental integrity.
FEATURES
Written by an expert in the field who has helped users apply RCM and its more modern derivative, RCM2, at more than 600 sites in 32 countries. The second edition includes more than 100 pages of new material on:
condition monitoring
the analysis of functions and failures
human error
the management risk
failure finding
the measurement maintenance performance
CONTENTS
Introduction to RCM
The Plant Register
Functions and Failures
Failure Consequences
Preventive Tasks
Default Actions
The RCM Decision Diagram
Planning, Organizing and Controlling the Proposed Task
The Nature of Failure and Technical History
Implementing RCM
What RCM Achieves
A Brief History of RCM
Reviews:
I purchased this book for a course that used it for a reference. Overall it contains good information and provides understanding towards the concepts of RCM. I have a background in maintenance already and didn't have too hard of a time understanding the content; class helped, too. I noticed that some of the concepts and approaches to RCM were so simple in idea, that they are easily overlooked. It can add to your arsenal of tools that can help you do your job better and more efficiently. Overall the wording is understandable and isn't boring. Basically, I would say this book is suitable for someone in their 2nd-4th year in industrial maintenance desiring to be a planner or maint. manager position. I enjoyed it because it opened my eyes to new ideas and exposed misconceptions about old RCM tactics that are inefficient.
The definitive textbook on RCM,
This book is the definitive textbook on RCM, the result of the accumulated experience of thousands of RCM reviews in nearly every industry and in dozens of countries around the world.
It presents RCM's distinctive "systems" approach to maintenance, offering sophisticated criteria for deciding among four kinds of scheduled tasks (not simply the replacement of individual non-repairable components), and equally sophisticated criteria for deciding among two other kinds of failure management policies (including redesign) if scheduled tasks are not appropriate.
If you wish to do RCM, you need this book plus a mentor to guide your early efforts. (How many of us learned to ride a bicycle without someone holding the handlebars?)
But if you simply wish to understand RCM -- you need this book.
Excellent book to be used to improve reliability performance
This book is well developed showing a methodology to improve or optimize your maintenance plans which is presented in this book as a team responsability. Could be better? Yes, if the last section dedicated to Failure Finding Intervals stablish relation or compare with other recommendations from International Institutions like ISA. I strongly recommend as an excellent book for Maintenance Engineers, planners or any person involved in asset healthcare program.
The best RCM textbook ever written
I never cease to be amazed by some of the nonsensical comments we see on the Internet, particularly from people who read a book about an activity that requires complex skills -- discover that they can't do it without help -- and blame the book!
You won't learn to *do* RCM by reading this book, or any book -- just as you won't learn to ride a bicycle by reading a book. You'll learn to *do* it only by *doing* it -- and you'll have fewer spills on your first ride if you have help from someone who has already done it (and who knows how to teach).
But if you're not trying to learn to *do* RCM -- if all you want is to *understand* RCM, its concepts and its principles -- then stop searching and get this book. There isn't a better one out there. I've read the others, and I know.
Dana Netherton (Chairman, RCM committee, SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers))
RCM A Missing Piece
This book addressed maintenance of a system as the replacement of individual non-repairable components. However, it neglected to treat maintenace from the concept of a repairable system. I would refer readers to the book Repairable Systems by Ascher and Feingold for this type of analysis. In reality as a practitioner in both engineering and maintenanace, it is improtant to look at the system as a whole as well as the components. This is especially crtical in the decision as when to replace a system, which is a different analysis from when to replace a component.