P-E Corporate Services SA (Pty) Ltd Management Consultants

Reliability Centred Maintenance

A Three Day Workshop for Maintenance Managers, Supervisors, and Planners

Reliability Centred Maintenance refers to a maintenance programme designed to realise the inherent reliability capabilities of equipment, and is concerned with identifying those practices that enhance preventative maintenance.

The objective of RCM is to develop a minimum preventative maintenance programme that includes only those tasks necessary to preserve equipment, safety and economic reliability. Such a programme includes a systematic approach to developing preventative maintenance tasks for specific equipment from a disciplined application of a decision logic process. This considers the failure severity and the most applicable and effective maintenance tasks in order to prevent equipment failures. It also considers hidden function components.

By the end of this programme the delegates will…

Have a full understanding of RCM and how to apply it for the review of existing, and the development of new schedules. Through the use of practical case studies delegates will learn the practicalities of applying RCM effectively. In addition, they will learn the concept of the RCM Task Force and how to launch an RCM Programme in their own organisations.

Course Content

It is a hands on programme in which more than 60% of the time is devoted to practical examples. This allows delegates to obtain a through understanding of the technique, and covers:

Review of Maintenance Management
Introduction to RCM
Failure Patterns
RCM Terminology
The RCM Process
Preparation for RCM
Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
- Identification of Significant Items
- Understanding the Functions of Significant Items
- Understanding Functional Failures of each Function
- Understanding the Failure Mode for each Functional Failure
- Understanding the Consequences of each Failure Mode
- Perform a Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (Workshop)
The RCM Decision Model and Task Selection
- Task Selection (Workshop)
Packaging the Maintenance Schedule
Monitoring and Optimising the Planned Maintenance Programme
Implementing RCM