Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Reliability-centred Maintenance is a process used to determine - systematically and scientifically - what must be done to ensure that physical assets continue to do what their users want them to do. Widely recognised by maintenance professionals as the most cost-effective way to develop world-class maintenance strategies, RCM leads to rapid, sustained and substantial improvements in plant availability and reliability, product quality, safety and environmental integrity.

The author and his associates have helped users to apply RCM and its more modern derivative, RCM2, on more than 600 sites in 32 countries. These sites include all types of manufacturing (especially automobile, steel, paper, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and food manufacturing, utilities (water, gas and electricity), armed forces, building services, mining telecommunications and transport. This book summarises this experience in the form of an authoritative and completely practical description of what RCM2 is and how it should be applied.

The second edition has been comprehensively revised to incorporate the most recent developments in this field. It includes more than 100 pages of new material on condition monitoring, the analysis of functions and failures, human error, the management of risk, failure-finding and the measurement of maintenance performance.

This book will be of immense value to maintenance managers, and to anyone else concerned with the reliability, productivity, safety and environmental integrity of physical assets. Its straightforward, plant-based approach makes the book especially well suited to use in centres of higher education.

John Moubray, BSc (Mech Eng), spent his early career developing and implementing maintenance management systems, first as a plant engineer then as a consultant. In the early 1980s, he began to focus on the industrial application of RCM under the guidance of the late F Stanley Nowlan. In 1986, he set up Aladon Ltd, a consulting and training company based in Lutterworth, UK. He is currently managing director of Aladon, which specialises exclusively in the development of reliability-centre management processes and their application to physical assets.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface (p. x)
• Acknowledgments (p. xii)
• 1 Introduction to Reliability-centered Maintenance (p. 1)
• 1.1 The changing world of maintenance (p. 1)
• 1.2 Maintenance and RCM (p. 6)
• 1.3 RCM: The seven basic questions (p. 7)
• 1.4 Applying the RCM process (p. 16)
• 1.5 What RCM achieves (p. 18)
• 2 Functions (p. 21)
• 2.1 Describing functions (p. 22)
• 2.2 Performance standards (p. 22)
• 2.3 The operating context (p. 28)
• 2.4 Different types of functions (p. 35)
• 2.5 How functions should be listed (p. 44)
• 3 Functional Failures (p. 45)
• 3.1 Failure (p. 45)
• 3.2 Functional failures (p. 46)
• 4 Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (p. 53)
• 4.1 What is a failure mode? (p. 53)
• 4.2 Why analyze failure modes? (p. 55)
• 4.3 Categories of failure modes (p. 58)
• 4.4 How much detail? (p. 64)
• 4.5 Failure effects (p. 73)
• 4.6 Sources of information about modes and effects (p. 77)
• 4.7 Levels of analysis and the information worksheet (p. 80)
• 5 Failure Consequences (p. 90)
• 5.1 Technically feasible and worth doing (p. 90)
• 5.2 Hidden and evident functions (p. 92)
• 5.3 Safety and environmental consequences (p. 94)
• 5.4 Operational consequences (p. 103)
• 5.5 Non-operational consequences (p. 108)
• 5.6 Hidden failure consequences (p. 111)
• 5.7 Conclusion (p. 127)
• 6 Proactive Maintenance 1: Preventive Tasks (p. 129)
• 6.1 Technical feasibility and proactive tasks (p. 129)
• 6.2 Age and deterioration (p. 130)
• 6.3 Age-related failures and preventive maintenance (p. 133)
• 6.4 Scheduled restoration and scheduled discard tasks (p. 134)
• 6.5 Failures which are not age-related (p. 140)
• 7 Proactive Maintenance 2: Predictive Tasks (p. 144)
• 7.1 Potential failures and on-condition maintenance (p. 144)
• 7.2 The P-F interval (p. 145)
• 7.3 The technical feasibility of on-condition tasks (p. 149)
• 7.4 Categories of on-condition techniques (p. 149)
• 7.5 On-condition tasks: some of the pitfalls (p. 155)
• 7.6 Linear and non-linear P-F curves (p. 157)
• 7.7 How to determine the P-F interval (p. 163)
• 7.8 When on-condition tasks are worth doing (p. 166)
• 7.9 Selecting proactive tasks (p. 167)
• 8 Default Actions 1: Failure-finding (p. 170)
• 8.1 Default actions (p. 170)
• 8.2 Failure-finding (p. 171)
• 8.3 Failure-finding task intervals (p. 175)
• 8.5 The technically feasibility of failure-finding (p. 185)
• 9 Other Default Actions (p. 187)
• 9.1 No scheduled maintenance (p. 187)
• 9.2 Redesign (p. 188)
• 9.3 Walk-around checks (p. 197)
• 10 The RCM Decision Diagram (p. 198)
• 10.1 Integrating consequences and tasks (p. 198)
• 10.2 The RCM decision process (p. 198)
• 10.3 Completing the decision worksheet (p. 209)
• 10.4 Computers and RCM (p. 211)
• 11 Implementing RCM Recommendations (p. 212)
• 11.1 Implementation - the key steps (p. 212)
• 11.2 The RCM audit (p. 214)
• 11.3 Task descriptions (p. 218)
• 11.4 Implementing once-off changes (p. 220)
• 11.5 Work packages (p. 221)
• 11.6 Maintenance planning and control systems (p. 224)
• 11.7 Reporting defects (p. 233)
• 12 Actuarial Analysis and Failure Data (p. 235)
• 12.1 The six failure patterns (p. 235)
• 12.2 Technical history data (p. 250)
• 13 Applying the RCM Process (p. 261)
• 13.1 Who knows? (p. 261)
• 13.2 RCM review groups (p. 266)
• 13.3 Facilitators (p. 269)
• 13.4 Implementation strategies (p. 277)
• 13.5 RCM in perpetuity (p. 284)
• 13.6 How RCM should not be applied (p. 286)
• 13.7 Building skills in RCM (p. 291)
• 14 What RCM Achieves (p. 292)
• 14.1 Measuring maintenance performance (p. 292)
• 14.2 Maintenance effectiveness (p. 293)
• 14.3 Maintenance efficiency (p. 304)
• 14.4 What RCM achieves (p. 307)
• 15 A Brief History of RCM (p. 318)
• 15.1 The experience of the airlines (p. 318)
• 15.2 The Evolution of RCM2 (p. 321)
• 15.3 Other Versions of RCM and the SAE Standard (p. 323)
• Appendix 1 Asset hierarchies and functional block diagrams (p. 327)
• Appendix 2 Human error (p. 335)
• Appendix 3 A continuum of risk (p. 343)
• Appendix 4 Condition monitoring (p. 348)
• Glossary (p. 412)
• Bibliography (p. 415)
• Index (p. 418)

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