Reliability-centred Maintenance (RCM) was originally developed by the civil aviation industry to set up maintenance schedules for aircraft. Over the past twenty years, the technique has been applied outside the airline industry to almost every type of industrial manufacturing and process equipment.
RCM is an ideal process for the development of maintenance programmes for new equipment of all types, especially complex equipment for which no history is available.
Applied to re-assess the maintenance requirements of existing equipment, RCM transforms maintenance schedules and the way the maintenance function as a whole is perceived in the organisation. The result is maintenance that is safer, more effective, less expensive, carried out with the agreement of production and maintenance personnel.
ISC and its associate companies can provide training for group members (3 days) and for RCM Facilitators (10 days).
RCM does far more than just produce new maintenance schedules for your equipment. Applied correctly, RCM achieves all the main objectives of maintenance:
Before beginning an RCM maintenance review, you need to ensure that the right people in your organisation are trained and the right systems are selected.
We provide a three day RCM introductory course with fully worked case studies for those who will be involved in RCM review groups and their managers. Our ten day advanced course includes extended real-life exercises and is intended for candidate RCM facilitators. Contact us for local availability and timetables.
ISC is a member of a world-wide network of specialist trainers and consultants working in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. If you are based outside Europe, contact us for details of your local Aladon-accredited RCM training organisation.
No. As with most team-based initiatives, a good computer system can do a great deal to reduce the administrative burden, organise the information produced and help to control the amount of paperwork involved.
The RCM process itself is based on information about your equipment and about your business that can only come from the people in your company who know the plant best: technicians, engineers, operators and managers.
As a company we take our commitment to people seriously. Although ISC develops and markets software for applying RCM that is used in most industry sectors throughout the world, we only sell our RCM Toolkits to organisations that have trained RCM group members and facilitators on recognised introductory and advanced RCM courses.
Plenty. Just as the world (and the Internet) are full of schemes for making money with no investment, there are dozens of "short cut" approaches to RCM.
Our experience shows that these short cuts don't deliver the safety, environmental and production benefits in the long term, and none does anything to improve communication and teamwork.
Read John Moubray's papers on how RCM is changing the world of maintenance. Click here to jump to the Aladon site.
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