Reliability-centered MaintenanceIndustrial Press, 1992 - 320 pages Reliability-centered maintenance is a highly structured framework that overturns many widely held beliefs about preventive maintenance. It enables users to: Select the most appropriate maintenance tasks for their needs (preventive, predictive or corrective) ; Deal with failures (random or age-related) that could affect significant assets ; Meet the expectations of the owners of the assets, the users of the assets and of society as a whole (safety, environmental integrity, output, product quality and efficiency) as cheaply and effectively as possible. |
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achieve actuarial analysis affect safety analysis analyze applied approach asset availability basis bearing borescopes cause changes Chapter conditional probability Conditions monitored consider corrosion cost decision diagram decision worksheet default action desired performance detect deterioration downtime ensure environment equipment example fail fail-safe failure consequences failure effects failure mode failure occurs failure pattern feasible and worth functional failure gearbox hidden failure hidden function Information Worksheet issues large number lubrication machine maintenance programs means MTBF multiple failure on-condition task operating context operational consequences organization P-F curve P-F interval performance standards period plant possible potential failure preventive maintenance probability of failure problems protected function protective device question RCM Decision RCM process RCM review record redesign reliability repair S-N curve scheduled discard tasks scheduled maintenance scheduled restoration task shown in Figure specific stand-by pump stress suitably trained technically feasible techniques turbine usually vibration Weibull distribution