Hi

I am a student and have been assigned an RCM project.

Can anyone provide a simple industrial training example to marvt74@hotmail.com

also can anyone explain the difference in the analysis for a standby and non standby situation for say a single pump and a pump with a 100% standby.
We will assume the process has the same importance and there is only operational consequence.

Do we say the single pump has consequences and the standby pump has no consequence as we assume the standby will be switch on automatically.

Hi Marv.

Not a very good response to your question. I am also doing some studies on this, so have posted some files that you may find useful. There is a RCM worksheet example, filled in this version for a uni discussion, and the RCM Deccison diagrams which define the best type of maintenance to perform based on your RCM worksheet

You are pretty much correct, RCM asseses the modes of functional failure and the consequence of that failure, so a duty/standby arrangement will have a very different work task list defined than a 100% duty pump, even though they may be the exact same physical unit. If you need a case study, try this URL, http://www.reliabilityweb.com/art05/rcm_purac.htm

Write again if you think I can be any more help.

rcm.zip (39 Kb, 42 downloads) Zipped RCM Files

tthew:

Thank you for calling attention to this.

I have a number of files including military RCM instructions and the original Nowlan & Heap available for download (free): http://www.motordiagnostics.com/presentations.htm

Howard

Hey Marv, any results?