Title: Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM3)
Description: Cover (RCM3™: Risk-Based Reliability Centered Maintenance); Front Matter; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1; RCM3 Background; About This Book; Chapter 2; Introduction to RCM; 2.1 The changing World of Maintenance; Safety and Reliability Are Directly Related; The First-Generation Maintenance; The Second-Generation Maintenance; The Third-Generation Maintenance; The Fourth-Generation Maintenance; New Expectations and Reality; New Techniques; New Developments; The Challenges Facing Maintenance; 2.2 Maintenance and RCM; 2.3 RCM3: The Eight Questions Operating ContextFunctions and Performance Standards; Failed States (Functional Failures); Failure Mode; Failure Effects and Consequence Severity; Inherent Risk; Risk Management; Proactive Risk Management Strategies; Default Actions for Tolerable Risk Decisions; The RCM Strategy Selection Process; 2.4 Applying the RCM Process; 2.5 The RCM Risk Mitigation Strategy Selection Process; Asset Criticality and Asset Prioritization (ACAP) Process; What ACAP Should Deliver; 2.6 Asset Registry and Verification; Asset Verification Process; What Asset Verification Should Deliver; RCM Planning Setting Clear Performance Standards and How These Will be MeasuredReview Groups; Facilitators; The Outcomes of an RCM3 Analysis; Auditing and Implementation; 2.7 What RCM Achieves; 2.8 International Standards; Chapter 3; Operating Context; 3.1 Documenting the Operating Context; Chapter 4; Functions; 4.1 Describing Functions; 4.2 Performance Standards; Multiple Performance Standards; Quantitative Performance Standards; Qualitative Standards; Absolute Performance Standards; Variable Performance Standards; upper and Lower Limits; 4.3 Different Types of Functions; Primary Functions Secondary Functions4.4 How Functions Should Be Listed; Chapter 5; Failed States; 5.1 Failures; 5.2 Failed States (Functional Failures); Performance Standards and Failure; Who Should Set the Standard?; How Failed States Should Be recorded; Chapter 6; Failure Modes and Effects Analysis; 6.1 What Is a Failure Mode?; 6.2 Why Analyze Failure Modes; 6.3 Categories of Failure Modes; Falling Capability; increase in Desired Performance (or increase in Applied Stress); initial incapability; 6.4 How Much Detail; Causation; Failure Causes-Root Cause of Failure; Failure Mechanisms Normal Deterioration MechanismsOther Mechanisms; Identifying the Root Cause; Latent Causes; Behavior-Based Safety; Probability; Consequences; What Is Meant by Reasonably Likely?; Cause Versus effect; Failure Modes and the Operating Context; 6.5 Failure Effects and Consequence Severity; 6.6 Sources of Information about Failure Modes and Effects; The Manufacturer or Vendor of the Equipment; Generic Lists of Failure Modes; Other Users of the Same Equipment; The People Who Operate and Maintain the Equipment; Resnikoff Conundrum; 6.7 Levels of the Analysis and the Information Worksheet
Subjects: Maintenance, Reliability (engineering)