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Maintenance Types: RCM and Its Strategies
Maintenance Types: RCM and Its Strategies
Maintenance Types: RCM and Its Strategies
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Maintenance Types
RCM and its strategies
Definitions & Applications
RCM
Reliability centered maintenance (RCM): integrates preventive maintenance (PM) with predictive
testing and inspection (PT&I) and repair(known as reactive maintenance), with also proactive
maintenance to increase the probability for a machine to function in the designed way , so it can
reaches its designed life cycle with the minimum maintenance costs, and minimum downtime,
RCM integrates these strategies and principles to gather so they are optimally integrated, so all
strategies advantages can be achieved, so resulting by maximizing reliability of systems and
components while minimizing maintenance cost and downtime.
RCM Analysis:
1- Insure realization of the inherent safety and reliability levels of the system/components.
2- Restore the system/components to these inherent levels when deterioration occurs.
3- To obtain the information and data necessary for design the improvement and
adjustments of these items where their inherent reliability start to be inadequate.
4- To achieve these goals at minimum total cost, including maintenance cost, support costs,
and economic consequences of operational failure.
RCM Strategies
reactive maintenance (repair) : referred to break down, repair, fix-when-fail, or run-to-fail (RTF)
maintenance , trouble calls (TCs) are typical type of reactive maintenance , when applying this
technique, maintenance, components repair, or replacement happens only when failure takes
place in the component's functional tree, this technique assumes failure is equally likely to happen
in any system, component or device, and failure is age related, this leads to identify a specific
group of repair parts, as being more necessary or desirable that others.
Preventive Maintenance (PM): is time based maintenance where maintenance occurs according to
a predetermined scheduled plan, it consists of regular scheduled activities such as adjustments,
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Depending on the time intervals, preventive maintenance (PM) can result in a significant increase
in inspections and routine maintenance, preventive maintenance (PM) also reduces the frequency
and effectiveness of unplanned machine breaks and downtime, for the components and system
with defined age related wear patterns.
Time intervals or interval sets are usually determined by 'Mean Time Between Failure' (MTBF).
Predictive Maintenance (Predictive Testing and Inspection (PT &I)): it is a condition based
maintenance, by monitoring the condition of systems and components, uses nondestructive tests
techniques, visual inspection, performance records and data to assess the machinery condition,
Predictive Maintenance (Predictive Testing and Inspection (PT &I)) replaces periodic time
maintenance that are scheduled only when warranty by components condition, continuing
analysis of components condition monitoring data allows planning and scheduling of
maintenance activities in advance of serious and functional failures.
Methods and ways to determine the condition of components/systems & identify the precursors of
failure:
1- Trend analysis.
2- Pattern recognition.
3- Data comparison.
4- Test against limits & ranges.
5- Correlation of multiple technologies.
6- Statistical process analysis.
Proactive Maintenance (root cause maintenance): Improves maintenance through better design
installation, maintenance activities, work men ship and scheduling.
1- Using feedback and communications to ensure that changes in design or procedures are
rapidly made available to designers and managers.
2- Employing a life cycle view of maintenance and supporting functions.
3- Ensuring that nothing affecting maintenance and it is occurs in isolation.
4- Employing continuous process of improvement.
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Essential techniques to extend the component life or reach its designed life:
Strategy Applications
Reactive 1- Industry.
2- Factories.
3- Everywhere where unplanned failure
takes place.
Preventive 1- US Navy.
2- Cars and automobile.
3- Lubricated systems.
4- Calibrated systems.
5- Everywhere when failure pattern is
known.
Predictive 1- US navy.
2- NASA technologies.
3- Electrical Surveys.
4- Mechanical Surveys.
5- HVAC systems.
6- Building Surveys.
Proactive 1- Controlling Lubricant fluids.
2- Controlling Hydraulic fluids.
3- Controlling Coolants.
4- Controlling Air.
5- Controlling Fuel.
6- HVAC systems.
Reliability Centered Maintenance 1- Aviation Industry.
2- Spacecraft Industry.
3- Nuclear Industry.
4- Department of Defense in US.