Reliability-Centered Maintenance / Edition 2

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Overview

Initially developed by the aviation industry, RCM is rapidly becoming fundamental to the practice of maintenance management and is now in use at hundreds of industrial and service organizations around the world. This book provides an authoritative and practical explanation of what RCM is and how it can be applied. It is of vital importance to anyone concerned with productivity, quality, safety, and environmental integrity. Written by an expert in the field who has helped users apply RCM and its more modern derivative, RCM2, at more than 600 sites in 32 countries. The second edition includes more than 100 pages of new material on:

  • condition monitoring
  • the analysis of functions and failures
  • human error
  • the management risk
  • failure finding
  • the measurement maintenance performance

"...new edition incorporates over 100 pages of new material on condition monitoring, the analysis of functions & failures, human error, the management of risk, failure finding & the measurement of maintenance performance."

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RCM is a highly structured framework that overturns many widely held beliefs about preventative maintenance. It was originally developed by the civil aviation industry and is now finding application in various kinds of industrial and service organizations. This guide, written for maintenance, production, and operations managers, explains how to implement RCM and what results to expect. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780831131463
  • Publisher: Industrial Press, Inc.
  • Publication date: 1/1/1997
  • Edition description: Revised
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 448
  • Sales rank: 210,509
  • Product dimensions: 6.34 (w) x 9.14 (h) x 0.97 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction to Reliability-centered Maintenance 1
2 Functions 21
3 Functional Failures 45
4 Failure Modes and Effects Analysis 53
5 Failure Consequences 90
6 Proactive Maintenance 1: Preventive Tasks 129
7 Proactive Maintenance 2: Predictive Tasks 144
8 Default Actions 1: Failure-finding 170
9 Other Default Actions 187
10 The RCM Decision Diagram 198
11 Implementing RCM Recommendations 212
12 Actuarial Analysis and Failure Data 235
13 Applying the RCM Process 261
14 What RCM Achieves 292
15 A Brief History of RCM 318
App. 1 Asset hierarchies and functional block diagrams 327
App. 2 Human error 335
App. 3 A continuum of risk 343
App. 4 Condition monitoring 348
Bibliography 412
Index 415
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