Category Archives: RCM
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RCM Consequences
01-01 While failure modes and effects analysis may have some small intrinsic interest of its own, 01-02 the reason for our concern with failure is its consequences.This was a statement from Nowlan and Heap’s RCM report in 1978. The idea … Continue reading
PM, PdM, Proactive Maintenance
Here are my definitions of these terms: Preventive Maintenance: A general category covering maintenance tasks (called policies) that seek to anticipate and deal with failures that could likely occur in the future. Preventive Maintenance is a super-set of strategies that … Continue reading
Living RCM Certified® and ISO 14224
Living RCM Certified® procedures for work order data entry allow reliability engineers to perform reliability analysis . Analysis usually precedes improvement. Living RCM Certified® adheres to the RCM terminology set in Standard SAE JA1011. Standard ISO 14224 uses a different … Continue reading