Effective Reliability-based Approach to RCM
We designed our trademark RCM methodology, RCM2™, with the optimization of your company’s assets in mind. RCM2 is one of the most effective processes to help determine and safeguard the reliability and maintainability of assets. It results in the implementation of an effective and cost-saving maintenance strategy on each of the assets of the facility.
For more than three decades, we’ve used RCM2 to help organizations decide what must be done to ensure that any physical asset, system or process continues to do whatever the team wants and needs it to do.
Here’s how RCM2 can support your organization’s reliability culture:
- Increase reliability, availability and productivity
- Optimize maintenance and avoid unnecessary costs
- Boost safety awareness and environmental integrity
- Generate better understanding of equipment behavior
- Share information across the entire organization
Hit Your Targets with RCM2
RCM2 identifies the most critical assets of a company and how best to optimize its maintenance strategies to reduce system failures. Any assets that are likely to fail or have a large consequence if they do—are considered your most critical assets.
In essence, users may expect a whole host of different things from their assets, depending on certain performance parameters, such as output, throughput, speed, range and carrying capacity. Where relevant, the RCM2 process defines what users want in terms of risk (safety and environmental integrity), quality (precision, accuracy, consistency and stability), control, comfort, containment, economy, customer service and so on.
The RCM2 process identifies the ways in which the system can fail to live up to these expectations (failed states), followed by an FMECA (failure modes, effects and criticality analysis), to identify all the events which are reasonably likely to cause each failed state.
Effective techniques are then adopted to minimize the possibility of failure and improve the reliability of the facility as a whole. The RCM2 process provides powerful rules for deciding the effectiveness of any failure management policy. It also provides precise criteria for deciding how often routine tasks should be done to better boost reliability.
Gaining a Deeper Understanding
RCM2 completely transforms the view that any organization has of its physical assets. Not only does it revolutionize views about maintenance and how it can work together with operations, but it also leads to a far broader and deeper understanding about how things work in general.
As a result, assets become more reliable because they are better maintained, plus operators are less likely to do things which cause their assets to fail. A better understanding of how systems work also means that operators are far more likely to react quickly, confidently and correctly when things do go wrong—a capability which is quite literally priceless, especially in complex, hazardous, tightly coupled facilities.
