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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