Category Archives: LRCM
Videos
The purpose of this entire website is to convey to the maintenance management and engineering world the indispensable Living RCM (LRCM) approach towards continuous improvement in maintenance. The videos on this page will demonstrate how the LRCM philosophy and methodology … Continue reading
Automating CBM
It has been said, with considerable justification, that a condition based maintenance policy is of little practical use to a maintenance organization unless it can be automated. Proliferating oceans of condition data have outpaced the limited human resources that can … Continue reading
RCM boundaries and Living RCM
In performing your RCM analysis on this butterfly valve, you decided to treat the hydraulic system as a separate analysis. You drew the boundary in such a way that the cylinder-actuator belongs to the hydraulic system and not to the … Continue reading
LRCM reliability technician survey results
These are the results of a survey of a group of 9 technicians tasked to interact with the new Mesh work order closure form. This alternative entry method, a feature of “Living RCM” is meant to improve data quality for … Continue reading
LRCM reliability analyst survey results
Mesh LRCM has two principal objectives. First, to ensure analyzable work order data, and second, to update the RCM knowledge base whenever it deviates from reality as observed by the technician. On a scale of one to 10, six maintenance … Continue reading