Course description
Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) is commonly used to help establish safe minimum levels of maintenance, determine changes to operating procedures and help establish maintenance regimes and plans. Successful implementation can result in cost savings, machine uptime and improved risk management. But the devil’s in the detail – how can you achieve these benefits and successfully implement RCM in your organisation? This programme will help you do just that.
Note: this is a purely indicative outline. The content, duration, objectives and material used can all be adapted to match your specific requirements.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Facilities and maintenance managers, their teams and their suppliers
Outcome / Qualification etc.
- What, why, how and who?
- Opportunities and benefits
- Risks
- Cost effectiveness
Training Course Content
Note: this is a purely indicative outline. The content, duration, objectives and material used can all be adapted to match your specific requirements.
1 What is maintenance?
- Why maintain?
- Traditional maintenance methods
- Common current practices and trends
2 What is Reliability Centred Maintenance?
- Its history
- Its development
- Current usage
- Where can it be cost-effective?
3 How does it work?
- Basic features
- Key criteria
- Maintenance options
- Key outcomes
4 Making the business case and preparing the strategy
- Identifying and quantifying current risks
- Identifying and quantifying current costs
- Motivating decision-makers
- Identifying and empowering those who have to deliver the results
- Educating / gaining buy-in from interested parties
5 Implementation
- Identify business functions
- Prioritise functions
- Verify correct usage
- Identify failure modes
- Identify the consequences of failure
- Understand the failure process
- Specify the appropriate maintenance action(s)
6 Ongoing requirements
- Monitoring
- Recording
- Analysis
- Continuous re-evaluation
7 Open discussion
- Sharing experience and addressing specific issues of interest to participants
- Course review
- Close
Course delivery details
This thoroughly practical one-day workshop uses a mixture of formal tutor inputs, practical exercises, case studies, specialist tools and tutor-facilitated discussion.
The programme can also be delivered in a two-day format, which gives more scope to (a) tailor the content to reflect client’s specific requirements and (b) reinforce the learning through more practical exercises and case studies.
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