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Understanding Maintenance Concepts and RCM

Maintenance involves preserving equipment and systems. There are several maintenance concepts including reliability centered maintenance (RCM), risk based inspection (RBI), total productive maintenance (TPM), and total quality maintenance (TQM). RCM focuses on predictive maintenance to prevent failures and uses 7 questions to identify potential failure points. RBI prioritizes inspections based on the probability and consequence of failures. The goal of RBI is to inspect assets based on risk rather than a fixed schedule.

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Understanding Maintenance Concepts and RCM

Maintenance involves preserving equipment and systems. There are several maintenance concepts including reliability centered maintenance (RCM), risk based inspection (RBI), total productive maintenance (TPM), and total quality maintenance (TQM). RCM focuses on predictive maintenance to prevent failures and uses 7 questions to identify potential failure points. RBI prioritizes inspections based on the probability and consequence of failures. The goal of RBI is to inspect assets based on risk rather than a fixed schedule.

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Definition of Maintenance

Maintenance means preserving something


•What needs to be maintained
•What needs to be modified
Types of Maintenance Concepts
• RCM – reliability centered maintenance
• RBI – risk based inspection
• TPM – total productive maintenance
• TQM – total quality maintenance
• BPR – business process reengineering
RCM
• Reliability-centered maintenance, often
known as RCM, is a process to ensure that
assets continue to do what their users require
in their present operating context.
• RCM emphasizes the use of Predictive
maintenance (PdM) techniques in addition to
traditional preventive measures
RCM 7 Questions
1. What is the item supposed to do and its associated
performance standards?
2. In what ways can it fail to provide the required functions?
3. What are the events that cause each failure?
4. What happens when each failure occurs?
5. In what way does each failure matter?
6. What systematic task can be performed proactively to
prevent, or to diminish to a satisfactory degree, the
consequences of the failure?
7. What must be done if a suitable preventive task cannot
be found?
Identify Causes of Failure
• Example of failure level detail:
Pump set fails
Pump fails
Impeller fails
Impeller comes adrift
Mounting nut undone
Nut not tightened correctly
Assembly error
RBI
• Risk Based Inspection (RBI) is a risk based
approach to prioritizing and planning inspection
used in engineering industries, and predominant
in the oil and gas industries.
• This type of inspection planning analyses the
probability (or likelihood) and consequence of
failure.
• The level of risk is used develop a prioritized
inspection plan for the asset.
Purpose of RBI
• To move away from time based inspection often governed by
minimum compliance with rules, regulations and standards
for inspection.
• To apply a strategy of doing what is needed for safeguarding
integrity and improving reliability and availability of the asset
by planning and executing those inspections that are
needed.
• To provide economic benefits such as fewer inspections,
fewer or shorter shutdowns and longer run length.
• To safeguard integrity.
• To reduce the risk of failure.

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