117 – RCM with Nancy Regan

RCM with Nancy Regan

RCM principles have been around for nearly 50 years now, and its process for nearly 40 years. Surprisingly, there is still a wide misconception and most people still don’t understand the term that is RCM. So, what is RCM or Reliability-Centered Maintenance? RCM is one of the most efficient and effective proactive maintenance processes that is considered one of the most powerful asset management tools. One of the great things about RCM is that you can apply it to any industry or your daily life. It has one of the most diverse applications in the world.
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68 – Condition Monitoring with John Lambert

Condition Monitoring with John Lambert

Ever wonder why your assets aren’t producing the value they are supposed to even if you have trained staff and big budgets? Are you a fan of Predictive maintenance improvement of your organizational processes? Then, condition monitoring is where you should start. The meaning of this word is as simple as the word itself. You just need to check the state of your asset on a regular basis and as the state of your asset change, you would know what possible failures that change can lead to and then you can try predictive maintenance strategies to stop that failure from occurring in the first place.
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05 – What is Reliability Centered Maintenance?

What is Reliability Centered Maintenance?

Does the age of equipment increase the probability of failure?

That was the conventional wisdom until Nowlan & Heap discovered that components have six different types of failure patterns:

Bathtub – 4%
Wear Out – 2%
Fatigue Related – 5%
Rapid Increase to Random – 7%
Random Level of Failure – 14%
Infant mortality – 68%

This means only 11% of failures are age related… 89% are not age related – so why do PM Programs still rely on time-based maintenance (Replacements, Overhauls) they only address 11% of failures.
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