Advanced Concepts
FUNCTIONS
- How to decide if a Function should be recorded
- Deeper discussion on what something IS versus what it DOES
- Tips for writing Functions
- Start-up and shut-down Functions
- Design Capability versus Required Performance: Aloha Airlines accident – a case study
FAILURE MODES
- Deeper discussion on what Failure Modes to include in an RCM analysis
- Reverse-engineering current maintenance tasks to Failure Modes
- Debunking the “5 whys” of “Root Cause Failure Analysis”
- Tips for writing Failure Modes
- Using RCM to “root out” ‘Human Error’
- The kind of data we should be collecting
- Aligning level of analysis with the goals of the RCM analysis
FAILURE EFFECTS
- Writing Failure Effects with Local Effects, Next Higher Effects, and End Effects
FAILURE CONSEQUENCES
- Deeper discussion on what constitutes “normal situations”
- Taking Operational Consequences to the next level: Case study from the modern day commercial airline industry
PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE
- Useful Life versus MTBF
- Deeper look at “worth doing”
- Conditional Probability of Failure versus Probability of Failure
ON-CONDITION MAINTENANCE
- Identifying “Failure” on the P-F curve
- More than one “Failure” on the P-F curve
- Deeper look at “worth doing”
- Gauges: Accuracy versus Tolerance and the P-F Interval
- “Safety Factor” and P-F intervals
DEFAULT STRATEGIES
- Discussion on why Default Checks and Failure Finding are last on the Decision Diagram
PROACTIVE MAINTENANCE
- Discussion on RCM Decision Diagram task hierarchy
ANALYSIS VALIDATION AND IMPLEMENTATION
- How a Validation Meeting is conducted
- Anatomy of an RCM Validation Package and Final Summary
- Key topics for the Validation Team to focus on during an RCM Validation
EXERCISES
- Maintenance Tasks and Default Strategies
- Failure Consequences
RCM ANALYSIS
- Time management in an RCM analysis
- The role of software in an RCM analysis
- Once RCM analyses are completed, are they ever revisited?
- Can RCM templates be used to expedite an RCM analysis?
- How the information in an RCM analysis can be used for other purposes.
- Does RCM reduce maintenance on legacy assets?