Reliable Maintenance Planning, Estimating, and Scheduling

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Defining Maintenance Strategies for Critical Equipment With Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM)

Abstract

This chapter is specifically included to expose the planner/scheduler to the concept of reliability-centered maintenance RCM and the fundamental RCM concepts and the seven key elements. The process is used to determine the maintenance requirements of any physical asset in its operating context. In addition, it provides a detailed process to answer the question: What must be done to ensure that any physical asset continues to do whatever its users want it to do in its present operating context?

Keywords

Bathtub curves; Default actions; Defining functions; Failure consequences; Failure effects; Failure modes; FMEA; Functional failure; Functions; ...