Videos

A brief Introduction to this series of videos from the Founder and Managing Director of Reliability Management, Chris James.
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This video looks at the definition of reliability, the implications of this, and how it feeds directly through into the RCM Process and its application.
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A high level overview of the RCM process – what it consists of, what it is applied to and by whom, and what it delivers. This video includes the background to the process and some philosophical principles behind it.
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More detail about the seven questions of RCM.
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A description of the history of RCM – why it was developed and where it came from.
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One major deliverable from the correct application of the RCM process is a world-class maintenance programme – what maintenance tasks should be done and at what interval. This video considers what alternative approaches might be used to determine a maintenance programme for a physical asset, and why RCM is the best approach.
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A key piece of research behind the RCM process relates to the 6 patterns of failure. These describe the conditional probability of failure of components against time. What do they show and why do they matter?
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Different people in different organisations, industries and countries sometimes use the same words, but mean different things. In order to prevent misunderstandings, this video explains the terminology used by Reliability Management in this website.
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The Operating Context affects all the answers to the seven questions of RCM. This video covers what the Operating Context is, what an Operating Context statement describes and why it is so important.
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What are Functions, how they are worded, and what types of functions should be recorded.
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A brief video about the second question of RCM – Functional Failures.
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What are failure modes, how are they worded and why they are important. This video also considers what types of failure mode should be recorded in RCM
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This video covers an additional key point about failure modes – at what level of detail should they be recorded. This is one area some analysts can get horribly wrong, with catastrophic results.
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A brief video about how to use RCM to review an existing maintenance programme, or manufacturers’ maintenance recommendations.
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This video covers Failure Effects. It describes what information they contain, how it is recorded, and why this information is recorded.
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This video covers criticality and its relevance to RCM. It goes on to describe the difference between an FMEA and a FMECA.
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This video describes the categories of Failure Consequences in RCM and some key points for correctly categorising Failure Consequences
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The RCM Decision Diagram is explained in this video. We don’t just cover the questions in the Decision Diagram themselves, but the reasons the questions are in a certain order.
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This video describes the different types of proactive maintenance task and what questions need to be addressed to determine if they are technically feasible. Also, what do we mean by ‘technically feasibile’
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Proactive Maintenance tasks also need to be Worth Doing. What makes a task worth doing and how is this determined? These questions are addressed in this video.
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Explains what is meant by redesign in RCM and what activities it covers.
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This video covers Failure Finding; what it is applied to, and how to determine the correct task and appropriate interval.
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This video covers who applies RCM, and why, and what it is applied to. Also how to select assets for analysis.
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This video describes the role and skills of a very important member of the RCM Review Group – the RCM Facilitator
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What should be done to ensure the outcomes of the RCM process are implemented, and why this is important.
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This video describes the role of software in RCM. It also describes how RCM allows for Continuous Improvement of physical assets and how software can support this
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This video covers the results of the application of RCM in Civil Aviation over a period of several decades.
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This video describes how RCM can be used to improve a business process.
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RCM applied to instruments, with amazing results.
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Another example of the application of RCM that delivered stunning results. This is notable because of the ‘mixed bag’ of outcomes that came out of the study.
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Several successful RCM projects have been carried out on Reciprocating Compressors. These are described in this short video.
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The outcomes of an RCM analysis are not just maintenance tasks. This video describes a Case Study in which almost all tasks identified addressed causes of failure due to human error
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This video covers RCM standards and RCM certification
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An interview scenario is used to address some common questions about RCM
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