Reliability-centered MaintenanceIndustrial Press, 1997 - 423 pages Reliability-centered maintenance is a process used to determine systematically and scientifically -- what must be done to ensure that physical assets continue to do what their users want them to do. Widely recognized by maintenance professionals as the most cost-effective way to develop world-class maintenance strategies, RCM leads to rapid, sustained and substantial improvements in plant availability and reliability, product quality, safety and environmental integrity. The author and his associates have helped users apply RCM and its more modern derivative, RCM2, on more than 700 sites in 34 countries. These sites include all types of manufacturing (especially automobile, steel, paper, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and food manufacturing), utilities (water, gas, and electicity), armed forces, building services, mining, telecommunications, and transport. This book summarizes this experience in the form of an authoritative and practical description of what RCM2 is and how it should be applied. This book will be of immense value to maintenance managers, and to anyone else concerned with the reliability, productivity, safety, and environmental integrity of physical assets. Its straightforward, plant-based approach makes the book especially well suited to use in centers of highter education. |
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Introduction to Reliabilitycentered Maintenance | 1 |
2 | 21 |
4 | 35 |
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analysis analyzed applied asset bearing borescopes cause cepstrum Chapter components compressors conditional probability Conditions monitored corrosion cost decision worksheet default actions desired performance detect deterioration Disadvantages electrical engines ensure environmental equipment example fail failure consequences failure effects failure modes failure pattern failure-finding task feasible and worth FMEA frequency fuel functional block diagrams functional failure gas turbines gearboxes hidden function lubricating machine maintenance program means measured months Operation motor MTBF multiple failure on-condition task operating context operational consequences P-F interval particles performance standards possible potential failure proactive task probability of failure protected function protective device pump RCM process record redesign reduce reliability S-N curve sample scheduled discard tasks scheduled maintenance scheduled restoration task shown in Figure Skill specific stress suitably trained tank task intervals technically feasible technician Advantages technique tion users usually vibration viscosity wear weeks to months Weibull distribution