TR-99/41, USACERL TECHNICAL REPORT 99/41: RELIABILITY CENTERED MAINTENANCE (RCM) GUIDE (APR-99)

TR-99/41, USACERL TECHNICAL REPORT 99/41: RELIABILITY CENTERED MAINTENANCE (RCM) GUIDE (APR-99)., This manual outlines a comprehensive method of organizing an efficient maintenance program by applying the concepts of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM). RCM combines professional intuition and a rigorous statistical approach, and recognizes that different maintenance strategies apply to different facility equipment: run-to-failure, preventive, predictive, and proactive maintenance. The RCM approach applies these differing maintenance strategies in an optimal mix, to ensure that facility equipment is maintained sufficient to accomplish the facility mission without wasting maintenance labor. This guide is meant to help maintenance supervisors, managers, and technicians organize and operate an efficient and effective maintenance program in an environment of maintenance budget cutbacks. Maintenance management is a complicated business. Facility maintenance budgets are continually scrutinized by fiscal managers in a constant effort to trim dollars. Maintenance managers are under constant pressure to squeeze every last bit of productivity out of every maintenance dollar. This manual outlines a comprehensive method of organizing an efficient maintenance program through applying the concepts of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM). Combining professional intuition and a rigorous statistical approach, RCM recognizes that there are different maintenance strategies followed for different facility equipment: run-to-failure, preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, and proactive maintenance. The RCM approach applies these differing maintenance strategies in an optimal mix, to ensure that facility equipment is being maintained sufficient to accomplish the facility mission without wasting inordinate amounts of maintenance labor “baby sitting” facility equipment. This manual presents the RCM approach for maintenance supervisors, managers, and technicians to use as a guide in organizing and operating a tight, costeffective, “lean and mean” maintenance program in light of and in spite of the continual cutbacks in maintenance budgets.