[2F4] Reliability-centred condition-based maintenance (RCCBM)

P Price
CM Consultant, UK

Reliability-centred maintenance (RCM) owes its roots back to work carried out in the early 1970s. Despite quantum advances in condition monitoring (CM) in the years since, there has been very little change in RCM and its supporting practices during this time.

This paper acknowledges the advances in CM over the last 50+ years and in a series of sequential discussions, will:

Present the argument that by a simple redefinition of the term ‘maintenance’, the majority of activities carried out under the maintenance banner are in reality CM or a combination of CM and condition-based maintenance (CBM) activities.
Demonstrate that by cross-referencing failure modes to a comprehensive range of CM activities, the majority of them can be monitored, assessed and trended using one or more CM methods.
Demonstrate an awareness of the issue with CM information overload and present a means for quantifying the condition of any asset using the simple numeric terms 1-10.
Demonstrate a simple low-cost/no-cost means of displaying the current and historical plant health, history, reports, operating cycle, bad actors, good actors and more of every monitored asset with a typical access time of less than 60 s.
Discuss the cultural, logistics and management issues in transitioning from RCM to reliability-centred condition-based maintenance (RCCBM).

[2F4] Reliability-centred condition-based maintenance (RCCBM)

P Price CM Consultant, UK

P Price
CM Consultant, UK