Reliability Centred Maintenance: Principles, Analysis, and Advantages

This presentation provides an overview of Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), a maintenance strategy used to optimize maintenance programs in organizations. It covers the principles of RCM, the RCM analysis process, and the advantages of implementing RCM. The presentation emphasizes the importance of RCM in improving operational efficiency and preventing equipment failures. It also includes references to further explore the topic.

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Table of Content
Introduction
RCM (Reliability Centred Maintenance)
Principles of Reliability Centred Maintenance (R C M)
Reliability Centred Maintenance (R C M) Analysis
Advantages of Reliability Centred Maintenance
Conclusion
References

Introduction
This presentation is about RCM which is acronym of Reliability Centred Maintenance.
This is a maintenance strategy that is used by the business organization to optimise the
maintenance program of an organization of a facility. This is known as implementation
of different strategy in order to optimise the maintenance of each organizational function
ad facility for higher performance in the target market. All organizations need
maintenance operation to maintain their internal performance to produce better output
in the end.

RCM (Reliability Centred Maintenance)
This is important for the organization to maintain their internal performance efficient
and effective fir better output and profit. The RCM is explained as a business level
strategic maintenance strategy to maintain the effective internal operational efficiency
with in different functions of organization. By this process all the maintenance strategy
are optimised by this tool to maintain the productivity of plant in the market place.

RCM A Lot of Work
There are different organizations are using Reliability Centred Maintenance in order to
manage the efficiency of various systems in the organization. The companies like
Tesla Motors, Tesco PLC ALDI Supermarket used these system to keep their
operational efficiency very high in the market place.
This system is used by them for various purposes in different department. By using this
system these organizations are capable of finding and evaluating different failures
and technical issue in all the functional department of organization.

Principles of Reliability Centred
Maintenance (R C M)
There are Seven main principles which are important to considered in order to
effectively implement Reliability Centred Maintenance system in organizational
maintenance processes. These principles are-
 Objectives are First Priority
 Identification of System Failure
 Prioritisation of Failures
 Applicability of System
 Reliability Centres System
 RCM Acknowledged the Design
Limitations
 RCM Driven By Safety and Economics
 Failure Defined as Unsatisfactory
situation
 Applicability of Reliability Centred
Maintenance
 Effectiveness Type of
Acknowledgement
 Living System
 System Focused
 Screen Maintenance Task

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Objectives are First Priority - The primary objective is to preserve and protect
function of system functions of organization. This is a function oriented system. The
main objective of this system is to protect and preserve operational system and
equipment functions in order to maintain productivity of company in market place.

Cont...
Identification of System Failure - Identify the failure in system of organization
function that can affect the internal performance of company.

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Prioritisation of Failures - Failure modes should be prioritised.

Cont...
Applicability of System - Perform selection of various applicable and effective
tasks and processes in order to control addressed failure.

Cont...
Reliability Centres System - The main thing that is important in Reliability Centred
Maintenance is reliability centred. The main operation of this system to address the
system failure in the organization to prevent major issues and problems in the functions
of the Company.

Cont...
RCM Acknowledged the Design Limitations - The Design Limitations are
acknowledged by this system to maintain the reliability of system according to its
design. The reliability of the system or equipment is depended on its design and
efficiency on the operations. The main function of this tool is to make the maintenance
possible as per the design of system in order to improve the performance of the
particular system.

Cont...
RCM Driven By Safety and Economics - Reliability Centred Maintenance system is
designed in order to ensure the safety and security of system performance and economy
of the operations.
Failure Defined as Unsatisfactory situation-In the process of Reliability Centred
Maintenance any kind of failure is considered as an unsatisfactory situation. This is how
different troubles are solved by this system in an organization.

Cont...
Applicability of Reliability Centred Maintenance - The main principle about this
system is about the applicability of system on the particular situation.
Effectiveness – This is important to keep the effectiveness of this system maximum in
order to solve all the problems with maximum efficiency.

Cont...
Type of Acknowledgement - Acknowledgement of Tasks is of three Types which are-
Time directed, Condition directed and failure finding.
Living System - It is a living system that gathers data from different outcomes of
various organizational systems and function outputs.

Cont...
System Focused – All the functions of Reliability Centred Maintenance are focused on
the internal operations and functions of the organization to make the best efficient
strategies for company to improve their performance in market place.
Screen Maintenance Task – The main process that is used for implement Reliability
Centred Maintenance in organization is by using Logic Tree to monitor the maintenance
task.
These are main principles of the Reliability Centred Maintenance that are
followed in order to gain maximum performance in target market. By following
these principles organization can effectively manage the maintenance process
in organization.

Reliability Centred Maintenance (R C
M) Analysis -
There is a specific process is used to implement RCM analysis in organization. The
process that is used in Reliability Centred Maintenance follows different questions
which are- The functioning of equipment, what are the failures might be possible in
particular device or a system, what are the possible issues with particular failure with in
a system and what processes can be use to reduce the issues for organization internal
operations.

Advantages of Reliability Centred
Maintenance
There are different advantages of Principles of Reliability Centred Maintenance (R C
M) that can help the organization in positive manner. After the implementation this
process can help the organization to deal with different issues in effective manner. Some
of the main advantage of Reliability Centred Maintenance are -
 It can help the organization to avoid safety concerns with in the organization. By this
various dangers and risks can be avoided with in the work place.
 Improve the operations of organization and reduce the operational and failure cost in
organization.
 This system also helps the organization to prevent further failure in organization.
 Reliability Centred Maintenance also helps the organization to improve the efficiency
and life span of different tools that are used with in the organization.
 Efficiency of this tool is very high at solving different issues for organization.
 It can improve the effectiveness of system in the organization.
 This system can be used to prevent all type of sudden equipment failure with in
organization.

Conclusion
This presentation is concluding the brief information about Reliability Centred
Maintenance that is used by different organizations to improve their internal operation to
gain better place in the competitive market. The importance of Reliability Centred
Maintenance also has been concluded in the report. Various advantages of RCM system
also has been presented in the presentation that are useful for organization.

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