Reliability Centred Maintenance Training
Deciding maintenance from function and failure consequence rather than from the manual
Covers the RCM process from function definition through failure mode and effect analysis to task selection, following the SAE JA1011 criteria. Delegates learn to distinguish a genuine RCM analysis from the streamlined versions that skip the questions that matter.
This course sits alongside our Reliability Centered Maintenance consulting work, so what is taught is what we do.
Who should attend
Course content
Every module is taught with worked examples and exercises drawn from real plant, and adapted to your own process where the course runs in house.
The seven questions
- Functions and performance standards defined in measurable terms
- Functional failures and failure modes
- Failure effects and failure consequences
- The distinction that SAE JA1011 requires a process to satisfy
Consequence categories
- Hidden failure, safety, environmental, operational and non operational
- Why hidden failures need a different task type
- Protective devices and failure finding intervals
Task selection
- Condition based, scheduled restoration, scheduled discard and failure finding
- Applicability and effectiveness tests for each task
- Run to failure as a legitimate decision
- Default actions including redesign
Implementation
- Building the analysis into the maintenance management system
- Living programme review as failure data accumulates
- Interaction with risk based inspection and with integrity operating windows
- Where streamlined RCM loses the value
What you receive
- An RCM analysis workbook with FMEA templates
- A task selection decision diagram
- A failure finding interval calculation example
- Assessment result and attendance record
What changes afterwards
- Maintenance tasks trace to a failure mode and a consequence
- Hidden failures in protective devices get failure finding tasks
- Effort stops going to equipment where failure has no meaningful consequence
- Strategy adapts as real failure data arrives
Standards and references
We teach Reliability Centred Maintenance Training against SAE JA1011 evaluation criteria for RCM processes and the codes listed with it, at the edition current when you run it.
Run Reliability Centred Maintenance Training for your team
We will come back with dates, the pre-reading it needs and a cost per head. Tell us who is attending, what they already do day to day and whether you want it at your site or delivered online.
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