Tag Archives: JA1011
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
Criticality analysis in RCM
Criticality Analysis may be applied at two levels of the RCM process. First, it may be used to sort or classify a large number of equipment assets as to their priority for analysis. Secondly criticality analysis may be applied to … Continue reading
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
Effects
In most CMMSs where an RCM functionality has been introduced, the Effects tend to be short single phrases rather than narratives as suggested in the Moubray and SAE JA1011 standard. Effects according to the Moubray/JA1011 viewpoint include what happens at … Continue reading