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Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) Methodologies, Metrics, Readiness Factors and Relationships to Other Elements of Asset Management by Jack R. Nicholas, Jr., P.E., CMRP

This is a new workshop greatly expands on the theme of how to be successful applying RCM in any venue. It will be presented by a former practitioner and former commercial supplier of RCM analysis services with over 30 years experience overseeing application of the principles of RCM in military, industrial, utility and government activity applications. He has written extensively on the subject.  His company no longer offers RCM analysis services, endorses no specific approach to  RCM,  Variants or Derivatives and has no financial ties to any organization that does.

In text entitled Advancing Reliability and Maintenance. published in December 2005,  he and his co-author, R. Keith Young, have taken a neutral-to-positive stance on all approaches to RCM. His intent is to educate prospective users and services providers to take a new look at RCM principles, various approaches available in the marketplace and potential benefits. His presentation describes pitfalls to avoid in order to improve chances for a successful outcome. For the first time, readiness factors to consider before entering into an RCM project are described and discussed. He has developed for presentation in this workshop a logical description, partially based on actual applications, of how RCM fits with other major maintenance and reliability initiatives such as Total Productive Maintenance (TPM),  6 Sigma) and Procedure Based Maintenance (PBM). In addition he will present for the first time a Preventive Maintenance Optimization logic, developed in 2005, that provides a screening tool for assessing current tasks, task periodicity and assignment criteria prior to preparation of procedures for their execution.

Workshop Outline:

• History of RCM and rationale for its development and evolution in various organizations

• Economic factors and forces that led to the development of RCM Variants and Derivatives, the Society of Automotive and Aerospace Engineers (SAE) RCM Standard and its relationship to the SAE Failure Modes and Effects Analysis Standards

• Descriptions of various approaches to “Classical” RCM, Variants and Derivatives:
   

  Classical RCM Super-classical  RCM (RCM II) Modified Classical RCM Blitz RCM or RCM Blitz Value Based RCM Streamlined RCM or SRCM 80/20 RCM PM & PdM Program Conversion and Optimization Experienced Based Maintenance (ECM) Profit Centered Maintenance Risk Focused Maintenance Combinations of the above applied to various systems of a plant or facility

• Avoiding pitfalls in the execution of projects utilizing any of the above approaches and the obligations of both client and services providers to assure success

• Assessing readiness to successfully apply RCM to facilities or vehicles by internal (self) audit of an organization

• Evolution and rationale for metrics to determine whether or not to perform any approach to RCM analysis on a particular asset and, when you decide to do so, metrics to use for three phases of an RCM Project (Analysis, Implementation and Benefits phases)

• Between 60 and 80 metrics will be defined for possible use in various venues

• Results of an RCM Survey conducted by Internet with over 200 participants in early 2005

• How RCM methodology fits into broader reliability and maintenance strategies with actual examples  of strategy overviews presented

• How to link RCM with other maintenance and reliability processes and methodologies including, but not limited to Total Production Maintenance (TPM), Six Sigma,  various “maintenance scorecards,” and other elements of asset management and assessment

The Workshop leader during this one day effort will:

• Lead a discussion on why RCM seems to be losing favor or has never been accepted by Maintenance and Reliability professionals in many industries

• Encourage participants to describe their concepts of better or more logical bases for  maintenance and reliability programs

• Suggest alternative outcomes of  that may be possible from the final steps of any RCM method for consideration and discussion by workshop participants

• Suggest for discussion what practitioners who recognize the benefits of RCM can do to improve the end results of any RCM project

• Describe ways of bringing about culture change where needed to achieve buy-in to an RCM-based maintenance and reliability strategy

Recommended attendees: Practitioner Reliability Engineers and Managers, Practitioner Maintenance and Reliability (M & R) Technical Support Personnel, Practitioner M & R Project Managers, Practitioner Plant and Maintenance Managers and Key Support Staff Members, Other Decision Makers Who Influence Process and Budgets for M & R, First Line Maintenance Supervisors, Supplier Vendor RCM and RCM Variant and Derivative Services Project Managers and Facilitators

Reliability Engineering For Maintenance Managers by Vee Narayan

Workshop Objectives 

• To appreciate how to use reliability engineering to improve profitability and safety
• To learn how to implement analysis results effectively
• To be able to compute value added by this work
• To learn how to get started on an improvement program

What you should expect in this Workshop

There is a strong business case to support the use of Reliability Engineering, but we do not always know how to tap this knowledge.  In this workshop, we will equip you with just the essential theory, in simple and practical terms.  Along the way, we will discuss the terminology and definitions used in Reliability Engineering.  With this foundation in place, we will identify commonly used tools and techniques that can assist us in our reliability improvement efforts.  For this purpose, we will review these methods briefly, so that we can select the right one for the job in hand.  Don’t expect detailed explanations about RCM, RCA, FMECA etc., but you should see and hear enough to know how they work and why. 

Analysis is often the easiest part of any improvement effort.  For many of us, implementation of the results of analysis is the most difficult part.  We will discuss the issues involved in implementation and how we can plan and execute this phase effectively.  Like any business process, implementation has to be managed properly, paying attention to the ‘soft’ aspects as well. 

Most of us are up to our eyeballs in work.  It is hard to find the time to measure and record the value added by these efforts.  This is the Achilles’ heel of Maintenance Managers.  When competing for scarce resources, if we cannot prove the value added or RoI, we will lose out.  So we will spend some time on this subject. 

The last question is ‘How do I make a start’?  What are the steps we need to take to convince the powers-that-be to give us the resources and cash to achieve our vision of making it a safer, more profitable, longer lasting facility?  Our discussion should help you will gain some ideas on how to tackle these questions effectively. 

Who will benefit from this Workshop? 

This Workshop is meant for Maintenance Managers, Supervisors, Planners, Schedulers, Reliability Engineers and other support staff who wish to improve the reliability performance of their Plant or Facilities.  The emphasis is on practical application of the concepts which can be applied in the work situation.  If you don’t remember your math, you need not worry. We will not need a lot of it, as we will develop the concepts using tables and charts.  Some high school math knowledge will help – if you feel a bit rusty, help will be available. 

Workshop Leader 

V.Narayan (Vee) is a Mechanical Engineer with about 40 years of experience in the Automotive, Pharmaceutical, Oil & Gas (both Upstream and Downstream) and Engineering Industries.  He has worked in India, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Holland and the U.K., mostly in Maintenance and Project Management.  He led the Shell Group Center of Excellence in Maintenance & Reliability and headed the Maintenance Strategy Group in Shell U.K.  He has trained several hundred people in RCA, RCM and Maintenance Management, and is the author of a book entitled Effective Maintenance Management.

The Manufacturing Game by Ledet Enterprises, Inc.

The Manufacturing Game® is a proven tool for engaging the workforce in defect elimination. It gives participants a bird's eye view of a manufacturing facility.  They experience in a short time what could take years to experience in the "real world."  Actions launched as part of a workshop have typically resulted in 40% fewer failures and a third lower costs. Delivering world-class performance requires the engagement of the majority of the workforce in eliminating small defects before they become performance-limiting problems.  The Manufacturing Game® inspires front-line workers to take action to eliminate defects, product rework and waste and the reactive work that these defects create.

The Manufacturing Game® has been used by over 175 companies worldwide and 29,000 people. DuPont, BP, Honda, Whirlpool and ExxonMobil are a few of the companies that have used The Manufacturing Game® to reduce failures and lower costs.  The workshop is designed to be attended by maintenance managers, mechanics, operations managers, supervisors, operators, planners, schedulers, inspectors, reliability managers, reliability specialist, materials procurement personnel, trainers and IT providers who need to better understand how maintenance and operations work in the plant.

Leadership and the SAP Plant Maintenance Tool By John Hoke, CMRP and Lorri Craig, Reliability Solutions, Inc. 

Note: This workshop is offered independent of and has no connection with SAP AG or its affiliate companies.  SAP is a trademark of SAP AG 

Engaged leadership by most any measure, is the key success characteristic in any successful SAP Plant Maintenance Implementation.  As a leader, the organization will respond to what your values are and participation in the SAP PM implementation.  As the saying goes “We tend to respect what the boss inspects”.  Understanding the basic SAP PM tool set and providing leadership support for the organization is the foundation required to ultimately developing reliable maintenance practices and ultimately achieving your goal of increased reliability and lower cost to achieve that reliability. 

This workshop is designed to educate leadership within a manufacturing environment on the functionality of the SAP Plant Maintenance Module and its interdependencies with the other SAP Enterprise Modules.  It is this collective synergy of manufacturing subsystems that present the largest value to the company as a whole.  The maintenance organization is asked to standardize their reliability processes across an entire manufacturing environment, which in turn will both globalize many facilities while at the same time creating agility and small company flexibility to multi-facility organizations.  Leadership’s role of champion of the SAP Plant Maintenance reliability effort is to demonstrate and lead the value proposition.  The workshop will conclude with a leadership evaluation of key skills and action items to benchmark success. 

The topics addresses include: 

• How to obtain and utilize the information at a leadership level to manage the business of Reliability Improvement.
• What roles and skills are needed to effectively execute to SAP PM Module and Reliability effort.
• How Maintenance Best Practices align with the SAP PM Module.

This workshop has been successfully given in many manufacturing organizations to leadership teams providing leadership team members, both SAP novices and users, an overview and understanding on how to better support the organization and expedite reliability improvement. 

Reliability Solutions, Inc. is a company dedicated to increasing equipment reliability through effective use of the SAP PM tool.  Possessing both designations as Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional and Certified Application Consultant in Plant Maintenance by SAP, a unique view of the software and reliability synergy is offered to companies striving to achieve the SAP edge.

MRO Inventory Optimization by Gene Moncrief 

Be Brilliant with the Basics: Making Maximo Work by Steve Richmond, Projetech Inc.

Note: This workshop is offered independent of and has no connection with MRO Software or its affiliate companies.  Maximo is a registered trademark of MRO Software 

MAXIMO^® has been implemented at your site – now what?   Participants of this workshop will learn basic (but important) tips and tricks to get the most out of their investment.  We’ll discuss ways to enhance navigation and querying skills, better understand sites and locations, and correctly classify assets (equipment, rotables and inventory.)  We’ll also cover the importance of keeping value lists simple, mapping business processes, and choosing the appropriate reporting tools (SQR, Actuate or Crystal.)   If you are new to MAXIMO, or just eager to save time by making it more user friendly, you will find the “best practice” resources in this session very useful.

This one day course includes:

            ▪  Some tips and tricks to enhance your MAXIMO navigation skills

            ▪  Understanding sites and locations

            ▪  Equipment, rotables and inventory – Why correctly classifying your assets is important

            ▪  Keeping value lists simple – KISS    

            ▪  Why you must map business processes and how to do so 

            ▪  Queries – using, saving and writing them 

            ▪  Reports – SQR, Actuate and Crystal – how to choose 

            ▪  Seven Tips for System Administrators to make MAXIMO more User-Friendly 

            ▪  Q&A

            ▪  References and Resources

Bring your questions and be ready for one the most productive Maximo learning days ever.

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