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Reliability Driven Asset Management (formerly RCM)
The output of a Reliability
Driven Asset Management (RDAM) analysis is a maintenance plan that
maximises asset availability, capacity (effectiveness) and
efficiency, resource utilisation and profitability and minimises downtime, life-cycle
costs and risk.
Why is Reliability Driven Asset
Management better for developing a
maintenance plan?
- We identify functions and
associated performance levels.
- We check each function and
performance level combination against six standard possible failures.
- We replace
failure mode ('how you observe a failure' = symptom) with root
cause analysis.
- If you don't get any warning, and you should,
modify
the design to include a sensor, gauge, alarm, etc.
- We then discuss the
effect and include a
- proper risk assessment, by multiplying values
for
severity, likelihood and detectability.
- We have a task decision diagram on the
analysis sheet with 7 questions (including a link to operator
maintenance) to
avoid a 'what we have always done' response when people do not refer to
a selection diagram in a book with 17 questions and just repeat the
current activities when having to enter the task..
- In addition to task and frequency, we ask for
duration and
required resources, as this is what the planner
needs.
Some
references:
I applied Reliability Drive Asset Management. I found this method very enlightening in regards to developing the Maintenance plan to include all the risk associated with the asset not just asset life( i.e. safety, business risk, etc). I have been looking for a sound process that will deliver factual information to those above, to justify effectively not just assume. This process will have an immediate impact. I also found your paper on “ The budget Reaper” vitally important and have sent it to several key people within our business to gain knowledge in maintenance budgets and why we can’t “ Slash” them all the time (one is even an accountant!). Peter Attrill, Australia, 15 September 2010.
I am pleased to inform you that 'RDAM' has completely changed the way I look at maintenance. It is an excellent book and I've read quite a few on RCM (those by Bloom, Hinchcliffe/Smith and Coetzee all of these are very good too) but I have to say your book is much more coherent, is easier to read and provides a more structured and logical methodology. So I lookforward to your AM book. David Hughes, Scotland, 3 March
2010.
"I must say how
much I have enjoyed your book "RDAM formerly RCM". I found
it
interesting and informative. It is compact and has clarity,
content,
completeness, utility, and understandable format. (Allan Barry, Canada,
20 June
2006)
"Two
of the manuals that I have recently used are the revised 2006 editions
of
Asset Output Optimization – Formerly Total Productive Maintenance and
Reliability Driven Asset Management – Formerly Reliability Centered
Maintenance. Both have concise, compact style and content
that enables
immediate use in a very practical way. A thorough background
is
presented to ensure the reader places the instruction in proper
context. Frequent use is made of figures and diagrams to
re-enforce
important items. The author has an ability to present
complex ideas in
a clear, straightforward format that is easy to
understand. An
organization's overall objectives of asset optimization in safety,
efficiency, cost, and output are threaded throughout the
texts. Regardless of your asset management background, you
and your
organization will gain by use of these thoroughly usable
manuals. Highly recommended." (Allan Barry, Canada, 21
June 2006)
'For
my project I dit a FMECA (Failure Mode, Effect and Criticality Analysis) on
a Vanessa 30000 Valve and decided to do a RDAM on the same valve and
needles to say, I really preferred the RDAM program. The reason for
this is that after reading you book on RDAM I was really impressed and
decided to try it out. What is good about a RDAM is you do the
component as a hole (SIC) and do not break it down into smaller
components.
By breaking it down you actually do some of the work over and
over and wasting a lot of time and assigns the same maintenance
procedures over again". (Martin Kuhler, 7 November 2008)
Coverage (Chapters)
1.
Reliability
Centred
Maintenance/Reliability Driven Asset Management
Explained.
2.
How
to
Identify
Process or Asset Functions and Performance Levels?
3.
What
are
Faults,
Root Causes, Effects, Detectability, Consequences and Risk?
4.
How
to
Select
Maintenance Tasks?
5.
How
to
Use
the Reliability Driven Asset Management Analysis Sheets?
6.
How
to
Develop
the Work Plan, and
7.
How
to
Implement
Reliability Driven Asset Management?
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