Reliability Centered Maintenance
Asset management through reliability is more holistic and long-term than maintenance alone. It is a Preventive maintenance strategy focusing on reducing system downtime and increasing Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). Having an RCM differs from other maintenance-related concepts. RCM requires a close partnership between maintenance technicians and management, as both groups need to work together to develop an effective plan for maintaining critical systems. If done correctly, reliability-centered maintenance can help organizations achieve high reliability and consistency in their operational performance.
Why The Change
Over the years, experts have realized that design, operation, technology, and organizational culture significantly impact reliability. Hence, reliability encompasses far more than maintenance alone. So, there is a growing distance between reliability and traditional maintenance practices.
In the 1960s, an aviation industry study found that asset age caused only 11% of failures. As a result, people’s views of equipment failure changed drastically. What were the causes of the 89% of failures unrelated to the equipment’s age? That brought about the creation of condition-based maintenance. Condition-based maintenance added a new layer to asset management but was still solely dependent on the machine’s existing state.
Today
Now, reliability-centered maintenance has grown in recent years. This idea focuses on choosing maintenance actions to maximize overall machine reliability. A reliability-centered maintenance strategy can encompass a wide range of systems and processes. Because as we demonstrated previously, reliability considers everything from organizational culture to design.
The avoidance of unplanned downtime is what reliability refers to aims. Unpredictable breakdowns indicate that a piece of equipment is unreliable. RCM gives the likelihood that a component or system will perform a required function for a specified time under specific operating conditions.
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