RCM Videos

Introduction to Reliability Management and the series of short videos (Level 1)

A brief Introduction to this series of videos from the Founder and Managing Director of Reliability Management, Chris James.

What is Reliability?

What is RCM?

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

The 7 questions – An overview of the RCM process

More detail about the seven questions of RCM

History and development of RCM

A description of the history of RCM – why it was developed and where it came from.

Alternatives to RCM for developing a maintenance programme

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.

The 6 failure patterns

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?

Operating Context

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.

Functions

What are Functions, how are they worded, and what types of functions should be recorded

Functional Failures

A brief video about the second question of RCM- Functional Failures

Failure Modes

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

Failure Modes – level of detail

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.

Review of Maintenance Programs using the RCM Process

A brief video about how to use RCM to review an existing maintenance programme, or manufacturers’ maintenance recommendations.

Failure Effects

This video covers Failure Effects. It describes what information they contain, how it is recorded, and why this information is recorded.

RCM Analysis FMEA vs FME(C)A

This video covers criticality and its relevance to RCM. It goes on to describe the difference between an FMEA and a FMECA.

Failure Consequences

This video describes the categories of Failure Consequences in RCM and some key points for correctly categorising Failure Consequences

The Decision Diagram

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.

Technical Feasibility of proactive maintenance tasks

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’

Worth Doing

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

Redesign

This video describes what is meant by the term ‘redesign’ in RCM, and what activities it covers.

Failure Finding

This video covers Failure Finding; what it is applied to, and how to determine the correct task and appropriate interval.

Part 1 – Applying RCM

This video covers who applies RCM, and why, and what it is applied to. Also how to select assets for analysis.

Part 2 – The RCM Facilitator

This video describes the role and skills of a very important member of the RCM Review Group – the RCM Facilitator

Part 3 – Implementing RCM

What should be done to ensure the outcomes of the RCM process are implemented, and why this is important.

Part 5 – RCM software, continuous improvement

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

4:56 min

Case study 0 – Results of RCM in the aircraft industry

This video covers the results of the application of RCM in Civil Aviation over a period of several decades.

Case study 1 – Process Example

This video describes how RCM can be used to improve a business process.

Case study 2 – Instrument Example

RCM can be applied to any physical asset type, including Instrumentation. This video describes an examples of its application to instruments, with amazing results

Case study 3 – Mixture of recommendations 

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.

Case study 4 – Reciprocating Compressor Examples

Several successful RCM projects have been carried out on Reciprocating Compressors. These are described in this short video.

Case study 6 – Human Error

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

5:34 min

RCM Certification

This video covers RCM standards and RCM certification

RCM Interview

An interview scenario is used to address some common questions about RCM