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Maintenance Online : Maintenance & Asset Management Journal : ABSTRACTS : VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1, JANUARY 1996
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Vol 11, No 1, Maintenance Management - A New Paradigm - John Moubray, Managing Director, Aladon Ltd
This paper attempts to summarise fifteen of the most important areas of change which have occurred in the field of physical asset management over the past fifteen years. It is based on the experience gained by the author and his associates from the application of RCM and its most modern derivative, RCM2, on more than 500 industrial sites in 27 countries over a period of 10 years.
On the basis of this work, it has become evident that any organisation that wishes to achieve rapid, substantial and lasting improvements in maintenance effectiveness - in other words, in physical asset performance - must ensure that everyone associated with the operation and maintenance of these assets profoundly understands and internalises both the nature and the significance of these changes.
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Vol 11, No 1, Achieving Cost Effective Maintenance through the integration of Condition Monitoring, Reliability Centred Maintenance and Total Productive Maintenance - Tony Geraghty, Principal Consultant SQL Systems UK
British industry now seems partially convinced of the central role that asset care plays in the achievement of world class performance. However, grasping the opportunity and transforming this notorious 'Cinderella' function is being impeded as engineers are pushed into the spotlight amid a welter of confusing publicity about how this process should begin. Without a clear understanding of the differences between the available techniques and the way in which they should be applied, the engineer is no better off - there may be more opportunities today, but the inevitable downside is that there is a greater risk of making a poor choice. The author draws on his extensive experience of applying Reliability Centred Maintenance and various other strategies and fashions a coherent vision of the relationships between them. His intention is to provide a clearer picture of the choices to be made as we begin the journey toward excellence in physical asset management.
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Vol 11, No 1, Applying the RCM Method to High Voltage Sub-Stations - Christophe Basille, Engineer, Electricité de France
Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) has been extensively used in the military, aeronautical and nuclear power generation sectors. Its aim is to organise maintenance in accordance with operational reliability targets, within cost constraints. Following demonstration - in the nuclear electricity generation industry - of the feasibility of RCM, EDF committed itself to a two year study of its application to high voltage substations, at the 400 kV level. The aim of the study has been not only to define an acknowledgedly efficient strategy for the selection of maintenance tasks, but to compare the results achieved with those of the current maintenance approach. In addition to the standard procedures brought to bear on the RCM approach (functional analysis, feedback of experience, FMECA and task selection logic) there have been several original features to this project, viz
- The functional breakdown has been on three levels (external-to equipment, equipment-to-equipment and internal-to-equipment).
- A probabilistic estimate of criticality has been made, after research into, and quantification of, such factors as the seriousness (in particular as regards cost)
of the undesirable consequences of failure. Also taken into account have been
the frequency, detectability and rate of development of failure modes, and operations under conditions of incipient failure.
- Bayesian reliability assessment techniques have been employed to complete the feedback of experience.
- The RCM technique has been employed both to analyse the existing maintenance programme and to select maintenance tasks for new processes.
The experience gained will be the point of departure for a study of the advisability of extending RCM analysis to other sub-station electrical systems.
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Vol 11, No 1, Reliability Centred Maintenance and its implications for Asset Management Systems - Andy Dawson, Business Consultant, Bull Information Systems
It is suggested that Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) cannot be fully implemented in major industrial plant unless an effective computerised support system is in place. This paper explores this issue and suggests a number of key capabilities - technical and operational data capture, maintenance technique
support, diagnostic prompting, work management and scheduling facilities - via which companies undertaking RCM should judge candidate Asset Management Systems (AMSs).
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Maintenance Online : Maintenance & Asset Management Journal : ABSTRACTS : VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1, JANUARY 1996
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