Category Archives: RCM
Local, Next higher level, End effects
The FMECA process specified by MIL-STD-1629A provides a structured description of the Effects while the SAE JA1011 “minimum RCM” Effects are described by free text. One may question why LRCM chooses free text over the more stringent military structure The … Continue reading
Myths about RCM in heavy mining equipment
Myth 1: Within the HME community, RCM seems to have been labeled “a waste of resource, time and effort” …, Fact: This happens where RCM is treated as a one-time project rather than a living process integrated into everyday maintenance … Continue reading
Effects – alternate usages
In many RCM software applications the Effects has a different usage from that which we describe in many places throughout this website. For example, in one RCM software application, when you open up the properties of a given Failure Mode … Continue reading
The CMMS barrier to RCM
One company tried to connect its CMMS with its RCM program. Not just the usual upload of the RCM strategy from the RCM application to the CMMS but a more organic day-to-day integration of the two processes. However, they ran … Continue reading
Free text on the work order
Information technology has changed the way we work, but not the internal workings of our minds. Another 10 or 100 generations will pass before the human brain evolves the capacity to describe complex situations by selecting items from drop down … Continue reading
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Tagged Evolution, Free text, Reliability engineer, What I did, What I found
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