RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance): Principle & Software Implementation

BACKGROUND:

Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is a crucial approach for enhancing maintenance programs, especially in sectors like energy, manufacturing, and petrochemicals. By adopting RCM, organizations can avert costly equipment failures through predictive and preventive maintenance strategies. This RCM training for Maintenance Energy 2024 will equip participants with the essential skills to implement effective maintenance strategies, thereby lowering operational costs and ensuring seamless production and asset reliability.

Teams that utilize RCM focus on maintenance planning, monitoring asset conditions, and employing predictive and preventive maintenance to prevent expensive equipment breakdowns.

This Reliability Centered Maintenance course is particularly advantageous for continuous process industries that rely on complex and costly production equipment, including sectors such as mining, electricity generation, petrochemicals, marine, manufacturing, automotive, assembly, aviation, construction, pulp and paper, and oil and gas. The course is structured to address the need for reliable maintenance methods to ensure successful production and to minimize breakdowns or unexpected disruptions. As facilities increasingly adopt automated systems, the demand for efficient and effective maintenance methods becomes even more critical. Delayed improvements in maintenance operations can lead to significant losses, including decreased productivity, wasted labor hours, production delays, major equipment failures, and strained customer relationships.

Additional consulting and implementation support is recommended to ensure that companies realize the full value of these benefits.

OBJECTIVES:

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) as a foundation for implementing maintenance management and as a cost management tool within project management.
• Grasp the maintenance philosophy based on the evolution of maintenance practices: the first generation (breakdown maintenance) and the second generation (preventive maintenance).
• Anticipate potential failures by identifying the types of failures that may occur.
• Comprehend the root causes of failures.
• Reduce maintenance costs while maximizing equipment capacity.

TARGETTED PARTICIPANTS:

This course is intended for:

• Maintenance Engineers, Superintendents, and Supervisors
• Rotating Engineers, Superintendents, and Supervisors
• Power Plant Engineers, Superintendents, and Supervisors
• Manufacturing Managers
• Anyone interested in expanding their knowledge on these topics

TRAINING CONTENT:

Theory Basic Maintenance

• Definition of Maintenance
• Various Type of Maintenances (PM, PdM, TQM, RCM, CBM)
• Reliability, Maintainability and Availability.
• Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for Maintenance
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Determination

Functional Failure Analysis (FFA)

• Operational Context
• Functional Failure (Failed States)
• Root Cause Failure Analysis – Turbine, Pumps, Motor, Generator and Others.

Critical Item Selection

• Risk (Criticality) Matrix
• Likelihood of Failure Formulation and Scoring

Consequence of Failure Formulation and Scoring

Trainer:

Ir. Ahmad Taufik Joenoes, M.Eng., Ph.D., CMRP.

Ir. Deddy Nugraha