Programs

Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)

 Course duration:

Five days;

Course Description

This course presents the concepts and techniques of Reliability Centered Maintenance. It is specifically designed to meet the needs of managers, engineers, assistants and all technical personnel involved in maintenance. The course starts with maintenance background and maintenance evolution- history and modern thinking. It covers the role, impact, cost, and benefits of Reliability Centered Maintenance. It also covers the RCM techniques and methods such as the seven stages of RCM and FMECA. RCM implementation, organization, and sustaining benefits are also covered. By the end of the course, the attendees will be able to establish a RCM program suitable to their own facilities

Course Objectives

1. To understand the concept, performance measures, and analysis of RCM.
2. To be able to utilize recent RCM techniques in an efficient and effective way.
3. To be able to put plans and implement RCM.

 Who Should Attend

Managers, engineers, assistants and all technical personnel involved in maintenance.

Course Outlines

- Day 1: Introduction and Background

• The role and contribution of Maintenance in modern business:

- Reducing costs, Improving Performance, Raising Safety standards.

• How good maintenance enhances overall company performance:

- Maintenance costs and value, Spending the right amount

- Balancing cost and risk, Judgment and analysis.

• Bottom line benefits of getting maintenance right for your business.
• How good maintenance enhances overall company performance

- Day 2: Maintenance Evolution- History and Modern Thinking

• Brief historical review of maintenance
• Modern Maintenance Thinking and Philosophy

- Maintenance types – Breakdown, Planned, Time-based, Corrective, Preventive, Predictive, Opportunity, Design-Out, Shutdown.

- Getting the right maintenance balance for your situation.

• Minimizing overall costs – Capital (CAPEX) and Operational (OPEX)  - - Impact of Technology – Hardware and Software

- Impact of Costs, and Competition

• Safety and Environmental Issues and Drivers
• Challenging traditional approaches to maintenance

- Day 3: Understanding Reliability Centered Maintenance

• RCM and Overall Maintenance Strategy
• Performance Measures – Availability & OEE
• Creating an Optimized Maintenance Plan
• Criticality & Vulnerability Analysis and Assessment
• Introduction to Condition Monitoring and Links with RCM

- Day 4: Reliability Centered Maintenance Techniques and Methods

• Overall RCM program Plan
• The Seven Stages of RCM
• Introduction to FMECA
• The RCM Analysis Process
• Benefits of RCM on Cost and Performance

- Day 5: RCM Implementation, Organization, and Sustaining benefits 

• Where are we now - Benchmarking
• Where can we improve – Goal Setting
• Putting it into Practice - Implementation
• Teamwork and Organization