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Maintenance Management: 1.RCFA (Root Cause Failure Analysis)
Maintenance Management: 1.RCFA (Root Cause Failure Analysis)
The root cause failure analysis method that is proposed here should include
the following basic steps:
• Select the RCFA team
• Identify the problems;
• Determine the significance (impact) of the problems and estimate the
expected effort of subsequent steps of your analysis for each problem.
• Identify the physical cause of the problem.
• Determine, for each one of the validated hypotheses, the physical,
human and latent root causes of the problem.
• Propose recommendations, corrective actions, that can minimize,
eliminate or mitigate the consequences of the failure events.
• Determine wether corrective actions have been effective in resolving
problems.
A Method to Design the Maintenance Plan
Once the FMEA has been done, the RCM team should select the
maintenance activity targeted to each previously identified failure mode,
starting at the RCM low decision tree.
RCM classifies maintenance activities to be undertaken within two large
groups, preventive and corrective activities; the latter are undertaken only in
such cases where no other effective preventive action is possible.
Many preventive maintenance activities can be based on the equipment
condition. This is due to the fact that the equipment conditions do not
change instantaneously when the failure takes place.
3.Corrective Activities
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