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What Is CBM and How Do You Assign Intervals
What Is CBM and How Do You Assign Intervals
Condition Based
Maintenance (CBM) and
How Do You Assign
Intervals?
Nancy Regan
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A Condition Based
Maintenance (CBM) task is
performed at a defined
interval to detect a Potential
Failure Condition so that
maintenance can be
performed before failure
occurs.
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P-F Curve
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Filter Clogs
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Now we have to determine how long the
P-F Interval is.
Filter Clogs
1 Month
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Note: We must inspect at
intervals less than one month
or we will miss the failure.
That is the key to CBM.
Filter Clogs
1 Month
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Note: You may record the
differential pressure for a year
or so before you find a
differential pressure of 5 psi.
Filter Clogs
1 Month
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That does not mean you can increase the
inspection interval, because the
inspection interval is based on the P-F
Interval. In other words, how quickly
failure occurs once a Potential Failure
Condition is detectable.
Filter Clogs
1 Month
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POINT: It doesn’t matter how often the
failure occurs. What matters is how
quickly failure occurs once the Potential
Failure Condition is detectable.
Filter Clogs
1 Month
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PS
In step 6 of Reliability Centered
Maintenance (RCM), you consider
CBM as a solution!
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