RCM Facilitation - An 8 Day Intensive Course

Course Instructors - Kenneth Lees BSc, MSc and V. Narayan BMech, DipEE, DIM (Click on name to View Profile)

Course Outline

RCM teams work under the guidance of highly trained specialists in RCM, known as facilitators. Of all the factors that determine the success of any RCM program, the skill of the facilitator is the most important. RCM must be performed and implemented by an organisation itself. This training seminar will develop the expertise required to enable appropriate analyses to be carried out in-house ensuring competence development and reduced overall cost. The syllabus also includes a thorough grounding in the application of RCM, managing an RCM study, running effective meetings, time management and successful implementation of RCM including management presentation and setting up a living program. In this way, empowered teams remain empowered, ownership is retained and enhanced and companies begin to win the asset management battle.

DAY ONE

Introduction

Objectives of Seminar

Overview of RCM

Break

Why RCM is different

Lunch

Refresher Exercise (Hands)

What you should expect from RCM

Break

Who should do RCM

DAY TWO

Project Initiation

Selecting systems for RCM analysis; the decision process & risk

Break

Putting the Reliability into RCM

Where to find reliability information in your organisation

Lunch

Refresher Exercise (Rolling)

Simple Reliability

Where to find reliability information in your organisation

How to use reliability information for maintenance

Break

Maintainability + Video

RCM methodologies & commercial software

DAY THREE

The Operating context

How to identify and document Functions and Functional Failures

Break

Hidden and evident failures

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

Lunch

Refresher Exercise (Sharks)

Causes of failure

Break

Failure consequences

DAY FOUR

Application of RCM technique (Case Study 1, FMEA, FCA)

Maintenance strategy alternatives

Break

"Applicable and Effective" maintenance tasks

Lunch

Refresher Exercise (Goats)

RCM strategy selection logic

Break

Running Effective Meetings + Video

Case Study 1 MSS

DAY FIVE

Completion of Case Study 1

Learning points and close out CS1

Break

RCM-Professional Software

Lunch

Pilot study considerations (homework!)

Break

Introduction to Case Study 2

DAY SIX

Pilot study data collection kick-off

Break

Complete Case Study 2

Lunch

Learning points and close out CS2

REM (Re-Engineer Maintenance)

Break

Introduction Case Study 3 - Management of RCM

DAY SEVEN

Complete Case Study 3

Break

Learning points and close out CS3

Lunch

Selection of Pilot Study

Break

Selection of Pilot Study

DAY EIGHT

The "RCM Triangle" (reducing human error in maintenance)

Break

Practical implementation RCM & Industry Experience

Lunch

Implementation - critical success factors

Break

Pilot Study work plan

PROJECT SUPPORT

After completion of the training, we strongly recommend that SNOINO retain one RCM specialist on site for an additional period of one week to assist the newly trained facilitators select and begin working on a project. We do not undertake the analyses but will provide expertise and support to enable appropriate analyses to be carried out in-house ensuring competence development and reduced overall cost.

SNOINO have internationally recognised expertise in development and successful implementation of RCM methods tailored to a number of industrial sectors. They have also been consulted by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and British Standards Institute (BSI) on RCM, maintenance improvement, reliability and availability modelling.