Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)

Optimize Performance, Ensure Reliability: Your Path to Maintenance Excellence

OVERVIEW

The “Reliability Centered Lean Maintenance – RCM” methodology aims to ensure maximum system performance in terms of physical availability, operational reliability, safety, maximum service life and optimal cost, with the main purpose of producing the quantity, time, cost and quality required by the customer.

All of these aspects above will be achieved through the optimization of maintenance actions represented by optimized work plans.

The exclusive characteristics of the RCM methodology are the preservation of the System Function (Reliability); the identification of functional failures and dominant failure modes; the identification of potentially suitable types of Maintenance activities through a decision diagram and the selection of applicable and effective tasks.

The main benefits of the RCM methodology are the provision of rational bases for the Maintenance Plan; reducing maintenance costs (preventive maintenance); increasing the availability of the facility and forming a systematic basis for the continuous improvement process.

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  • Appreciate how reliability-centered principles can be applied to all types of assets and the entire life-cycle of assets
  • Systematically analyse and conduct Failure Mode, Effect and Criticality analysis (FMECA) to effectively identify criticality of key assets, prioritise tasks and minimize wastage
  • Design and tailor the ideal RCM framework to suit your business needs for operational excellence
  • Learn how to determine the most effective and efficient failure management policy for your equipment in its operating context
  • Determine the best preventive and predictive maintenance task that is suitable for the business operation
  • Learn how Reliability Centered Maintenance supports a Continuous Improvement programme, even in a changing environment
  • Determine what needs to be done to ensure the successful implementation of RCM analysis
  • Ensure successful adaptation and implementation of asset management improvements from artisans, technicians and contractors

  • Asset management and asset integrity
  • Maintenance, Planning and Scheduling
  • Asset reliability and health
  • Engineering and technical support
  • Project management

  • Acclaimed maintenance and integrity specialist with more than 30 years of experience and has led his teams to many maintenance and engineering excellence awards
  • Author of several Maintenance & Reliability Books
  • Developed and implemented several blue chip organizations across the world
  • Developed and implemented several blue chip organizations across the world
    Implemented several key maintenance projects in Brazil, USA, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Honduras, Angola, Malawi, Bangladesh, Belgium, Sweden, Finland and Kenya, with training in “World Class Maintenance Practices”

Maintenance Shutdown & Turnaround

A maintenance shutdown is a very critical event for industrial facilities due to the large number of resources involved in a short period of time. This characteristic has a direct impact on reliability issues, as well as on occupational health and safety, which can have a direct impact on the safety of the production process.

Therefore, developing a maintenance shutdown plan is vital to ensure the best use of limited resources, so that all activities classified as necessary to be carried out during the period determined for the shutdown are completed according to the service schedule, without any interference or obstacles being created to prevent the main objectives (scope, deadline and cost) of the shutdown from being achieved.

The 12 (twelve) basic principles of the “Planning Function” will be presented, in order to ensure that its fulfillment is carried out in a productive manner for the entire maintenance shutdown project. To complete this learning, the 10 (ten) PMI knowledge areas will also be developed, adding the issues of health, occupational safety and the environment.

The aim is to provide participants with an overview of best practices for implementing performance indicators that allow for better management of results for all measured processes.

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  • Understand the Criticality of Maintenance Shutdowns
  • Plan and Execute Shutdowns Effectively
  • Align Shutdown Objectives with Scope, Schedule, and Cost
  • Apply the 12 Principles of the Planning Function
  • Integrate PMI’s 10 Knowledge Areas into Shutdown Projects
  • Incorporate Environmental Considerations in Shutdown Planning
  • Coordinate Multidisciplinary Teams Under Time Constraints
  • Identify and Mitigate Shutdown Risks
  • Evaluate Shutdown Performance and Drive Continuous Improvement

  • Asset management and asset integrity
  • Maintenance, Planning and Scheduling
  • Asset reliability and health
  • Engineering and technical support
  • Project management

  • Acclaimed maintenance and integrity specialist with more than 30 years of experience and has led his teams to many maintenance and engineering excellence awards
  • Author of several Maintenance & Reliability Books
  • Developed and implemented several blue chip organizations across the world
  • Developed and implemented several blue chip organizations across the world
    Implemented several key maintenance projects in Brazil, USA, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Honduras, Angola, Malawi, Bangladesh, Belgium, Sweden, Finland and Kenya, with training in “World Class Maintenance Practices”
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