Reliability-Centered Maintenance

Second Edition

By: John Moubray

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Hardcover | 1 January 1997 | Edition Number 2

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Initially developed by the aviation industry, RCM is rapidly becoming fundamental to the practice of maintenance management and is now in use at hundreds of industrial and service organizations around the world. This book provides an authoritative and practical explanation of what RCM is and how it can be applied. It is of vital importance to anyone concerned with productivity, quality, safety, and environmental integrity. Written by an expert in the field who has helped users apply RCM and its more modern derivative, RCM2, at more than 600 sites in 32 countries.

The second edition includes more than 100 pages of new material on:

condition monitoring
the analysis of functions and failures
human error
the management risk
failure finding
the measurement maintenance performance

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Preface	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Introduction to Reliability-centered Maintenance	p. 1
The changing world of maintenance	p. 1
Maintenance and RCM	p. 6
RCM: The seven basic questions	p. 7
Applying the RCM process	p. 16
What RCM achieves	p. 18
Functions	p. 21
Describing functions	p. 22
Performance standards	p. 22
The operating context	p. 28
Different types of functions	p. 35
How functions should be listed	p. 44
Functional Failures	p. 45
Failure	p. 45
Functional failures	p. 46
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis	p. 53
What is a failure mode?	p. 53
Why analyze failure modes?	p. 55
Categories of failure modes	p. 58
How much detail?	p. 64
Failure effects	p. 73
Sources of information about modes and effects	p. 77
Levels of analysis and the information worksheet	p. 80
Failure Consequences	p. 90
Technically feasible and worth doing	p. 90
Hidden and evident functions	p. 92
Safety and environmental consequences	p. 94
Operational consequences	p. 103
Non-operational consequences	p. 108
Hidden failure consequences	p. 111
Conclusion	p. 127
Proactive Maintenance 1: Preventive Tasks	p. 129
Technical feasibility and proactive tasks	p. 129
Age and deterioration	p. 130
Age-related failures and preventive maintenance	p. 133
Scheduled restoration and scheduled discard tasks	p. 134
Failures which are not age-related	p. 140
Proactive Maintenance 2: Predictive Tasks	p. 144
Potential failures and on-condition maintenance	p. 144
The P-F interval	p. 145
The technical feasibility of on-condition tasks	p. 149
Categories of on-condition techniques	p. 149
On-condition tasks: some of the pitfalls	p. 155
Linear and non-linear P-F curves	p. 157
How to determine the P-F interval	p. 163
When on-condition tasks are worth doing	p. 166
Selecting proactive tasks	p. 167
Default Actions 1: Failure-finding	p. 170
Default actions	p. 170
Failure-finding	p. 171
Failure-finding task intervals	p. 175
The technically feasibility of failure-finding	p. 185
Other Default Actions	p. 187
No scheduled maintenance	p. 187
Redesign	p. 188
Walk-around checks	p. 197
The RCM Decision Diagram	p. 198
Integrating consequences and tasks	p. 198
The RCM decision process	p. 198
Completing the decision worksheet	p. 209
Computers and RCM	p. 211
Implementing RCM Recommendations	p. 212
Implementation - the key steps	p. 212
The RCM audit	p. 214
Task descriptions	p. 218
Implementing once-off changes	p. 220
Work packages	p. 221
Maintenance planning and control systems	p. 224
Reporting defects	p. 233
Actuarial Analysis and Failure Data	p. 235
The six failure patterns	p. 235
Technical history data	p. 250
Applying the RCM Process	p. 261
Who knows?	p. 261
RCM review groups	p. 266
Facilitators	p. 269
Implementation strategies	p. 277
RCM in perpetuity	p. 284
How RCM should not be applied	p. 286
Building skills in RCM	p. 291
What RCM Achieves	p. 292
Measuring maintenance performance	p. 292
Maintenance effectiveness	p. 293
Maintenance efficiency	p. 304
What RCM achieves	p. 307
A Brief History of RCM	p. 318
The experience of the airlines	p. 318
The Evolution of RCM2	p. 321
Other Versions of RCM and the SAE Standard	p. 323
Asset hierarchies and functional block diagrams	p. 327
Human error	p. 335
A continuum of risk	p. 343
Condition monitoring	p. 348
Glossary	p. 412
Bibliography	p. 415
Index	p. 418
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