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Maintenance Online : Maintenance & Asset Management Journal : ABSTRACTS : VOLUME 14, NUMBER 5, DECEMBER 1999
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Vol 14, No 5, RCM2 in Hyder - How easy has it proved to be? - Tony Geraghty, Datastream UK and Simon Williams, Hyder Operations
For some while, the Welsh utility company, Hyder, has had a plan for the long-term deployment of the RCM2" methodology throughout its water, sewage and electricity operations. To facilitate this and recognising the business constraints on the widescale application of the RCM2 methodology Tony Geraghty has developed a completely new way of implementing RCM2, which he terms a Vulnerability Study. Its development, via a Hyder-based scheme, is explained, current progress being reviewed, as well as the lessons learned, the savings made and the experience gained. It is assumed that readers have a working knowledge of the principles underlying RCM2 (If not, See Moubray [1] and Nowlan and Heap [2]) which allows the authors to concentrate on the practicalities of the exercise.
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Vol 14, No 5, Breaking the Chains of Preventive Maintenance: The Royal Navy Experience - Cdr S R Gosden and L K Galpin, Naval Support Command, Ministry of Defence.
In the early 1980s the Royal Navy revised its maintenance policy away from the calendar-based preventive activities and towards condition-based procedures. A simply stated aim, but one in which application proved challenging. The main limiting factor was the lack of historical data upon which to base engineering judgement. At best ships retained six months of watchkeeping readings, on paper and thus difficult to analyse. In the late eighties, however, with the emerging power of the PC, data capture could be automated. Graphical trending, warnings and alarm limits, could be easily rendered visible to the shipborne engineer and CBM became a viable arm of RN maintenance strategy. From this good quality data base condition indicators have been developed and this has been fundamental in underpinning the RCM strategy now under trial in four RN vessels.
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Vol 14, No 5, Integrated Maintenance Work Control - Ian A Newby, Tim Henry and Mike Niblett, Wolfson Maintenance, Manchester
Traditionally, maintenance management systems treat each maintenance policy separately; with separate functions for projects, time-based, condition-based, breakdown and condition monitoring tasks. Benefits can arise from dealing with tasks from these functions together, using a fully integrated system for controlling maintenance work from inception through to completion. A prototype integrated system was developed and a number of benefits were identified from a system trial carried out during 1995. The prototype remained in use at the trial site until early 1997, when it was replaced by a production version including a number of fundamental design changes to further improve the integration of maintenance tasks. Benefits experienced encompass more effective scheduling, better control over tasks and personnel and reduced scheduling effort. This paper reports on the use of the systems at the trial site over the three years 1995-1998, and presents the benefits identified in the initial trial and over the sustained period of use in a full production environment.
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Maintenance Online : Maintenance & Asset Management Journal : ABSTRACTS : VOLUME 14, NUMBER 5, DECEMBER 1999
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