Connecting Reliability with Maintenance

The increase numbers of physical assets in the recent years have made the maintenance system of these assets quite difficult. An unreliable maintenance will cost the company quite a big deal. The cost will include both the direct and indirect costs associated with all reliability issues. Therefore to avoid these extra costs, the maintenance systems of these assets have to be reliable.

Maintenance Reliability is the process to make sure that assets continue to give the service what their users want them to do in the present operating context. This RCM requires the machinery stakeholder to monitor, asses, predict, and understand the working of the machine. Reliability Centered Maintenance provides a framework where the function and possible failures of a machine can be analysed. Maintenance system is then established not only to reduce maintenance cost, but increase the reliability of the assets in its lifetime.

Reliability Centered Maintenance is usually used to create a cost effective maintenance strategy to find out the causes of the machine failure. But there can be other less tangible benefits which RCM may provide.

·         Identifying hidden failure in the machinery

·         Discovering significant and previously unknown failure.

·         Producing training to system engineers and machine operator.

·         Providing a detailed review and improvement where necessary, for plant documentation.

The use of this RCM will increase the efficiency of the machine thus giving more output in the cost effective way.