EG 5220: Assessment 2 - Analysis of RCM, FMEA, and Asset Management

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) methodologies. The report begins with an overview of the RCM methodology, discussing its benefits, such as increased uptime and reliability, and its limitations, including potential high startup costs. It then delves into the FMEA process, explaining its role in identifying potential failures during product design, and outlines its advantages, like risk avoidance and cost reduction, and disadvantages, such as potential biases and the need for in-depth analysis. The report also includes a review of a journal article on RCM implementation, summarizing a case study. Furthermore, the report presents an FMEA worksheet developed for a specific system, identifying top failure modes and recommended actions. The student has successfully applied the FMEA process to identify potential failures and propose solutions, demonstrating a practical understanding of asset management principles. The report offers a valuable resource for understanding and applying RCM and FMEA in various engineering and asset management contexts.

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Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Introduction
In my opinion, this essay discusses regarding the RCM methodology. It elaborates the
advantages and disadvantages related to this. It provides an overview of FMEA process. It discusses
regarding the advantages and disadvantages of this process. This essay provides a summary
regarding the RCM implementation.
Question 1
RCM is the method to maintain the systems that can continue to perform according to the
current operation scenario. If RCM is done successfully then it will responsible for the growth of the
machine uptime, reliability and many others. It is proposed to build the RCM into the basic category of
maintenance. It must be safe in nature. The evaluation process of the RCM is described in the SAE
JA1011. This criterion says that it should maintain some basic criteria before it is called the RCM. This
term is first coined by three persons named Tom Matteson, Stanley Nowlan and Howard Heap. There
were other senior persons who were involved in this matter. This process is initially used to elaborate
the maintenance of the airlines. As per my knowledge, this method is very systematic procedure for
the judging the equipment related to the facility and the resources are for the perfect match for two
different kinds of needs. It results in huge number of the reliability related to the facility. It also
provides a large number of maintenance facility based on the prediction. It mainly looks into the both
financial as well labor resources very seriously. It is very important process for the maintenance
based on prediction. This methodology will provide more advantages that are related to requirements
for operational management. In my opinion, in this method all kinds of procedures are used. The
procedure for maintenance has following parts: Availability, Management of assets, investigating the
conditions and many others. It will help to grow the production of a particular organization. It will also
give the assurance of the product. It also provides different kinds of maintenance. It is also a very
disciplined approach for the determination of the maintenance of the requirements of different types of
plants. In my opinion, this procedure has the ability for the downtime. It must have the facility of
removing the spare parts of different portions of industry. The maintenance procedures is an
integrated approach that have the chance to maintain the machine that can be functioned in the
necessary maintain to its design cycle having limited maintenance, condition-based and also the
proactive maintenance. It has the optimum blending of reactive, condition based as well as proactive
maintenance. RCM provides the facility of critical tools. It is used to examine the failures of different
kinds of equipment’s that can affect the performance of the organization for giving the systematic
ranks for the purpose of the priority of work. It is also used for the clarify of the materials. The mode of
faliure, critical analysis and also its effects that is necessary for choosing the basic information. In
RCM methodology there are some gross system that has been used for the general course of the
organization and also the Defination of the system has already is used for the selection. The most
important point of RCM is to provide the simple, easy and elaborate model for the decision of different
kinds of assignments. The basic features of the RCM process include:
 the safety
 the budget for maintenance
 different kinds of maintenance
It provides various options among several risk management tasks:
 Tasks related to the maintenance that is predictive.
 Tasks for the preventive maintenance
 Single modify to the system
 Failure at the run time.
In my opinion, advantages of RCM includes
 It is very effective maintenance program for assets.
 It reduces the expenditure by removing the unauthorized systems.
 It reduces the chance of repair of assets.
 It reduces the chance of damage of the assets.
 Target of RCM is to provide maintenance for the assets.
 It grows the reliability of the parts of the assets.

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 It analyses the main reason for the damage of assets.
In my opinion, disadvantages of RCM include:
 It may have a huge number of expenditure for the startup companies for providing the training
to the employees.
 The interest related to the savings is not viewed by the administration of certain company.
In my opinion, the FMEA is a methodology to identify the important failures that is available at
the time of designing the product. Failure modes are the procedures in which the procedure may not
be successful. These results in the bad output for the organization. FMEA analysis can decrease
these failures. It can replace the outstanding methods of engineering. It improves this by applying the
experiences as well as the knowledge of a CFT. It also provides the feedback for the design methods
of a product by evaluating risk of being unsuccessful. There are portions of FMEA. One is the Design
FMEA and another one is Process FMEA. DFMFA describes the chances of the worst functioning of
the product. It also decreases the lifecycle of the product. It can be performed by different teams of
subject matter experts. It performs the analysis of the design of the materials or manufacturing of the
materials. It has the ability to get the issues before the products are in to the hand of the consumer. It
is not for the use of the guidance by the procedure of development. It is efficiently used to the entire
life cycle of the product. The result of this will be the different kinds of the improvements for the safety,
quality, delivery, cost and many others. The main goal of this is to modify the process of production.
The basic objective of FMEA is to choose different types of rules related to the safety. It will reduce
the reduction of the performance of product. In my opinion, it will help to modify plans for controlling
the procedure. It is used to choose various kinds of features materials. It will also help to develop
many diagnostic techniques. The regulation and safety measures are obtained from:
 characteristics of the materials
 limit of tolerances
 geometry
 Interfering with other parts of the systems.
The PFMEA identifies the failure that influences the quality of the goods, decreases the reliability, not
satisfying the customers. These are generated from:
 Issues related to human being
 Procedures adopted at the time of processing
 Use of the goods
 Issues related to the environment
FMEA is a methodology that is used to identify the failure quickly. In my opinion, it is performed at the
time of the design of goods. Identifying the failures in advance the benefits of FMEA is:
 More than one options for avoiding the risk.
 Larger capacity of changes for verification as well as validation.
 Expenditure for the cost will be very less.
 Provides improvement in the DFMEA.
As per my knowledge there will be some issues related to this FMEA analysis. It includes:
 It provides extreme biasness towards the ratings that is related to the severity.
 It is increase the list of various types of modes related to the failure.
 If the FMEA is not implemented at the time of the design phase, its efficiency will be reduced
drastically.
 Sometime analysis in depth is impossible in case FMEA analysis.
 If the Detection Controls are not examined appropriately then the system for detecting the
problem will not be appropriate.
 FMEA is p[procedure for doing the assessment. It is not possible to remove issues for him. It
is used basically for the detection of issues related to the assets.
 FMEA tools are not appropriate for the inexperienced employees in an organization.

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Question 2
The RCM procedure is moved to a simple version for the applications with related to the PEA
distribution of power in the networks. It can be represented in four steps.
 Choice of feeder and the gathering of information.
 Defining the boundary of feeder as well as the function of feeder.
 Different modes of failures as well as analysis of its effects.
 Maintenance related to the preventive measure for the selection of task.
The above mentioned steps can be described by using an application for a case study. It is related to
the branch office of Bang Pa. It has twenty one branch offices in PEA C1. It is basically supplying the
electricity to more than thirty five thousand customers. This office has eight substations and also four
hundred forty one number of circuit kilometers with twenty-two power distribution system. In this case
study, the RCM method is implemented to the three substations. It includes twenty six numbers of
feeders. These are responsible for delivering to power to huge number of commercial as well as
industrial consumers.
In my opinion the initial step of the RCM is to select the distribution of powers. For performing
this operation, the maintenance information of PEA needs to gather. It includes different kinds of
technical papers, records for historical data as well as records for interruption. As per my knowledge,
these records are issued due to some unknown reasons. As per my knowledge, it also happens due
to the failure of the insulators, fuses, cables and many others. As per my knowledge, in this particular
step the records for interruption have a little number of the distribution for RCM. They are chosen from
the cost of the all the feeders. Each of these is the addition of the PEA and also the outage cost of the
consumers. The feeders are chosen on the basis of the outage cost. As per my knowledge, the
diagrams named single-line is drawn. After that, the statistics related to the interruption is prepared for
the chosen feeder. After that the definition of the boundary of feeder and also function related to this is
discussed. It is generated at the initial process for the analysis of various kinds of scopes. It will
provide the help to the employees’ involved RCM methodology to focus on the important portions. In
this particular task the single line diagrams related to the feeders forms the maps related to the
geography for the services. For each of the feeder, the boundary is covered for the equipment having
medium voltage. The preliminary activity of the feeders that the RCM is used to reserve the
distribution the power of the electrics from several substations that is required for the distribution of
the transformers. Third step of RCM is the failure as well as the analysis of effects. After the operation
of the preliminary function the system has to be specific in the previous step. As per my knowledge,
this mode of failure is elaborated as the important reasons for the prohibition of the distribution of the
power supply. All these modes of failures are based on the FOC. According to me, the next approach
is to take necessary steps to provide the maintenance of the selection of tasks. The main aim of this
approach is to choose the best PM tasks that can reach the top level reliability with respect to the
reduction of the FOC. This process is designed to get many of the cost effective tasks. These costs
can be anything. This can be cost of the hardware, cost of labor and many others. The PM activity
that is selected for this case study is for the replacement of the conductors of the bars, maintenance
of the cable spacer and many others.
Question 3
If the RPN of bulb housing is one then the problem can be solved very easily. As per my
knowledge, if the RPN value of the bulb housing is one then no change needs to be performed. In my
opinion, the expenditure for the warring of the bulbs is very high. Sometimes it is not possible for a
family to bear this kind of cost. Sometimes it may happen that the distribution of voltage of a home is
very high in nature that causes the bulb to failure. It may be costly affairs for a family or an
organization to reduce the voltage of the bulbs. That is why, it is very important to keep the RPN value
one.
As per my knowledge, if the RPN value of the slide switch is one then the problem can be
solved very easily. If the RPN is one then no changes related to the slide switch is performed. For
getting precaution for slide switch different operations needs to be performed. Many times it is very

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much difficult for a family or a company to bear this kind of cost. For changing loads, mounting can
lead to a huge amount of expenditure. That is why it is very much important to fix the RPN value one.
If the RPN value of battery is one then the problem can be solved very easily. If the RPN vale
is one then no changes will performed related to battery. There are various causes of the damage of
battery. It the battery is physically damaged or affected by sulphation then the cost repairing of battery
may be huge. In my opinion, sometimes it may not be possible for a company or a family to carry such
amount of cost. That is why, it is a good option to keep the RPN value of the battery is one.
In my opinion, if the RPN value of the spring is one then the problem can be solved very
easily. If the RPN value is one then no changes will be performed related to spring. There are various
types of reasons for a spring becomes fail. It includes deficiency in the raw material, surface is not
perfect, corrosion and many others. If a family or a company wants to fix these problems of springs
then it will not be cost effective in nature. That is why; it is a good choice to keep the RPN value one.
As per my knowledge, if the RPN of a housing spring is one then the problem can resolved. If
the RPN value is one then no changes will performed related to housing spring. There are various
causes of the damage of housing spring. If a family or a company wants to fix these problems of
springs then it will not be cost effective in nature. That is why; it is a good choice to keep the RPN
value one
Conclusion
According to me, in this essay, the brief overview of RCM is discussed. RCM has a various
number of advantages as well as disadvantages. It is very important procedure. That is why is it is
used by many industry. FMES analysis also plays a vital role in any industry. It has also has various
amount advantages as well as disadvantages. As per my knowledge, it can be concluded that, both of
these are equally important for the growth of the industry.

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