May I suggest a special platform be set to do online RCM?

Maybe sharepoint or something similar

Hello All.

Let's get started from scratch.
Attached a project plan I would use during a kick-off which I suppose this is :o)

We have to define a team and setup a working environment as suggested to make this project work so let us not get to fast without having the basis right.
See the project plan as a living document.

Curious at your reply

Regards,

Rogier
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I noticed that I forgot to post my email adres
I have set up the working environment in Gmail and made for this project a project email.
Please send an email to rcm2study@gmail.com and you get an Inventation back.
Wite down if you want to be a active teammember (write rights) or observer (read only).
In this environment documents can can be modified online by team members at the same time. For more information What exactly can I do with Google Docs? or watch the movie Google docs video.

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Projectplan_RCM_Case_Study_Cooling_Fan_System.ppt (465 Kb, 179 downloads)

Great Effort and thank you to all who have shared in this excercise.
I am sorry I'm late, but I would like to join this simulation.
As I just started to download the material I will take some time to read through it before I can actively participate.

So far I received 3 request to be a active team member on rcm2study@gmail.com.
One or two extra team members would be nice to start.

For the observers the following links can be used:

Project Plan
RCM2 Template

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Rogier,

May I suggest that there is a chat portion in this forum. You can suggest a fixed date to be online together with your members, observers, lurkers and others. Kindly advise a fixed date and time, and for the time, kindly specify the time in different time zones as we are from different parts of the world.

You need to be with your members most specially you are nearing the Failure mode and effects portion and most specially when the team is doing the RCM Decision worksheet.


My Warm Regards,

Hi Rolly,
You are entirely right.
End this week I will post a list of team members and try to schedule a regular chat session. Till then I hope a few more will volunteer as teammember on rcm2study@gmail.com .

Regards,

Rogier

Status Update

We now have the luxury of having 7 members signed up for the team. Introduction to each other is currently taking place.

If there are any comments on the project plan to the point of defining functions please do so because this is also part of the learning eperience.

OK,
Hello all. I am happy to have found this today and hope to contribute. I commend this effort and ask all to reserve individual methods/ process diffrence which is not "value added" to the actual effort underway. I am all for hashing who's is bigger or better, but lets try to make that a diffrent topic. Of course after the fact, compairing methods (RCM II vs. PMO vs. -403) will be very benificial (I too have to restrain myself form perempting a perfered method).
We tried to do this (RCM analysis on a water chiller tower) on the plantmaint fourm some time ago with great success 1/2 way through, then it died abruptly.
I'm working with Rogier to get in the loop.
I recognise several names on this list,,,, Hello my friends! Looking forward to getting to know you all.

Rogier - project plan looks good.
Can we have affirmations/comments from others then we can get on.

Mike.

Ready to start

Hi Guys ,

This is a great effort in bringing about a concept to harness an attitude for preserving limited resources by limiting the non productive components.
I suggest on achieving each mileston in this project comments from other participating members should be invited to re-inforce the practicality of these findings in circumstances and under different scenarios.this will help in broaden the scope of applicability of this concept.

Everything is looking good. I am excited about the participants, Hi Steve!. For the working group we might want to do web-meeting / conference calls. My participation is tenuous and schedule driven. The sooner we can get a schedule, the easier it will be to participate.

Best Regards

Johnny W. Campbell

Hey

Where did the Virtual RCM Analysis go?

I have been on the road extensively so please excuse my lack of participation but I was looking forward to seeing something here.

Is there a way we can bring this project back onto the forum boards?

Terry O

Hi Terry,
I thought the same myself. I tried a few things like cutting and pasting an excel table into the message form, but it was not that great. Is there some way you can get a sharepoint type service going with a link on the thread somehow? The facilitator manages the sharepoint analysis and all others can view and make comment. This way people can see the analysis.
Regards
Steve

Also, I see there is an RCM group that is going to do the analysis - with chat sessions. With that format the analysis is quite hypothetical in the sense that there is no real plant and people may bring experiences from lots of other plants - hence there is no right answer for the case study I have posted. This case study has been created with real information (not necessarily from the one site) and is designed as a good learning example. I have all the minutes of the meetings and the data required to do the analysis. I have not posted the info yet. I suggest that the group facilitated by Rogier posts questions on the forum and I will answer them. This way the chat is online.
Any comments - what do you think Rogier.
Rgds
Steve

Ok guys,

This is the RCM team

Team members--------------Forum Alias
Rogier de Mulder----------Rogier
Steve Turner--------------Steve Turner
Youssef X Abbaoui---------?
Johnny W Campbell---------Johnny W. Campbell
Bruno S Santos------------bsbsantos
Steven van Els------------savanels
Trevor Sullivan-----------Trevors
Mike W Ward---------------Mike66

It seems that a live chat session is not going to work on short term because of the different 8 timezones of this international team ;o)

This is not a normal RCM study, so we have to learn from how to approach RCM, how to document the study and learn from input and discussion from team and forum members.

So just to get started the team members will add the primary and secondary functions directly to the sheet or mail them to me.
We do the discussion of the results at the maintenance forum. And everyone can make comments on this forum. I will ask questions of things not clear to me or if I think things are not complete, just like I would in a normal session.
If we miss information we wil ask Steve to provide this

If we made progress after a session (weekly I hope) I will make the excel sheet final and place it on this forum as downloadable file.
So the Virtual RCM Analysis stays here Terrence.

I hope this will work.

Regards,

Rogier

Sounds good to me.

Rogier - I suggest if none of the other team have any issues with my original list of functions this should be directly inserted into the spreadsheet.
Otherwise can each member put in say 2 or 3 functions each when they are ready (or post 2 or 3 onto this forum so Rogier can insert them if everyone is happy).
Lets move it along guys!

Mike.

Mike here is the list you created with the additions from Trevors.
1.To provide constant airflow at a rotational speed of 200RPM
2.To allow access to the fan
3.To indicate speed of the fan
4.To support the motor and gearbox
5.To locate the fan
6.To stop fan in an emergency
7.To contain oil in the gearbox
8.To direct the airflow
9.To lock the fan in position
10.To prevent foreign objects from entering the duct.
11.To support the main fan shaft
12.To transmit power between the motor and gearbox
13.To transmit power between the gearbox and fan
14.To anchor structure in place
15.To shut down the fan when access door is opened.
16.To sound alarm in control room if vibration level exceeds Xm/s.
17.To locate pulleys on shafts.
18.To protect equipment from corrosion.
T1. Bearings-allow free rotation
T2.Gearbox- provide a reduction in speed & transfer torque
T3.electric motor - provide torque
T4.Thermisters- protect drive
T5. control system - ensure fan operating within desired range, to activate alarms,
T6. Cables - to distribute electrical power
T7. 4-20ma cables -to carry signal
T8. Alarm - to provide warning

The format of Trevors is different - perhaps this should be addressed and then a discussion on that complete list.
Rgds
Steve