Reliability-centred Spares (RCS) is a rational method for determining the stocks of spare parts you need to hold to support your maintenance and production operations.
RCS can use the output from a Reliability-centred Maintenance (RCM) analysis to determine the spares you need to hold to support the RCM maintenance decisions. Its decision logic uses a flow scheme that is similar to that of RCM, and RCS decisions are based on the same consequence categories as RCM (hidden, safety, environmental, operational and non-operational).
In principle it can. RCS is a completely general methodology that can be applied to any inventory item from fast-moving items like nuts and bolts to slow-moving spares such as turbine spares, large power transformers, pumps and vessels.
In practice you can achieve maximum benefits by careful choice of the systems and items reviewed. In most cases this means choosing systems whose unavailability could have a significant impact on production and parts that are slow-moving but have a long purchase or repair lead time.
RCS itself is a framework for enabling people to make decisions, not a software package. Our aim is to give your engineers and stock analysts a tool which enables them to agree on inventory decisions based on business needs, not on emotion or "gut feel".
Our RCS package includes a comprehensive software toolkit which automates most calculations and enables RCS reviewers to perform sophisticated sensitivity analyses to see the impact of their decisions.
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