Reliability Centered Maintenance
Introduction to RCM methodology
2-day course
Designed for maintenance engineers and managers
What you will learn:
- What is RCM process
- How various RCM standards differ from each other
- How to answer RCM 7 questions
- What is a function, failure, effect, cause etc.
- How to select appropiate maintenance tasks
- Failure probability basics
- What is preventive maintenance
- What is condition based maintenance
- How to design maintenance optimization simulations
- How to address inspection intervals in safety systems
Training contents
RCM Introduction
What is RCM?
Historical background
Why do you need RCM?
What is needed to perform RCM?
Most popular RCM standards
RCM procedure
RCM process
RCM 7 questions
RCM project scope definition
Q1 Functions
Q2 Functional failures
Q3 Failure modes
Q4 Failure effects
Q5 How does each failure matter? (effect categories)
Q6 Proactive tasks
Q7 Default tasks
Risk analysis considerations
Maintenance optimization
Decision trees
Probability distribution basics
Failure rate behavior
Exponential distribution difficulty
Conditional probability
Preventive maintenance principles and models
Monte Carlo simulations
Inspection intervals and applicable models
Safety system modeling
Condition based maintenance and modeling
Task packaging scenarios
