Reliability-centred maintenance, often known as RCM, is an industrial improvement approach focused on identifying and establishing the operational, maintenance, and capital improvement policies that will manage the risks of equipment failure most effectively. This two day seminar will give you the tools and techniques to plan your maintenance effectively using RCM frameworks in order to increase the efficiency and life time of your plant and machinery.
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Key Learning Objectives
• Learn to develop maintenance schedules that improve/promote plant reliability
• Revise your current maintenance procedures to improve performance, maintenance efficiency and reliability
• Be able to choose the optimum maintenance task
• Effectively forecast spares, budgets, resources and risk
Who should attend?
Anyone interested in performing RCM analysis or responsible for implementing an RCM program including:
• Asset Managers
• Facilities Managers
• Property / Building Managers
• Project Managers
• Financial Controllers
• Finance and Administration Officers
• Engineers
• Corporate Planners
• Strategic Planning Managers
• Maintenance Managers
• Technicians
Training methodology
This two-day course will use case study examples and group exercises, as well as tutorial sessions. All attendees will be provided with a workbook and a certificate of attendance.
Outline
Introduction to Reliability
• Defining reliability
• Reliability from a practical perspective
RCM in Context
• History of RCM
• Case Study: RCM at Boeing
• How has RCM changed?
• RCM Introduction, Terminology & Context
• Why/how is RCM different?
• RCM Assumptions
• Expectations
• Where does RCM fit?
• Who should you use RCM?
• RCM as risk management (AS/NZS4360: 1999)
Plant Functions
• Visible Functions
• Hidden Functions
Functional Failures and Failure Modes
• Hidden failures
• Causes of failures
• Failure mode and effect analysis
• Mean time to Repair
• Failure Rates
• Exercise: How to identify failure modes and their impact on plant
Failure Consequences
• What are the effects of each failure?
• Costs/Levels of failure
• Life Cycle Costs of Failure/Redundancy
• Exercise: Assessing the total cost impact of failure on your business
Maintenance Task Types
• What can you do to predict and prevent failure?
Task Selection Logic
• Understanding the Task Selection Process
Maintenance Scheduling
• Setting the Maintenance Schedule with RCM
• Exercise: Selecting optimum maintenance task and frequency
Interfacing with Production
• Using RCM to maximise plant uptime
Risk management strategies
• On-condition maintenance tasks,
• Scheduled restoration or discard maintenance tasks,
• Failure-finding maintenance tasks
• One-time changes
Practical Implementation of RCM
• Phases: Prepare, Demonstrate, Execute
• Case Study: Practical Implementations of RCM in NZ
• RCM Key success factors
Seminar closure
• Tying it all together into your own action plan to implement your learning’s from the seminar
- What, when, who?
• Discussions on your way forward approach from this point on
• Seminar wrap-up
Facilitator
Mike Killick, Principal Adviser, OpEx Management Ltd

Mike is the Director / Principal Adviser at OpEx Management Ltd, an organisation focussed on “Creating Operational Excellence” in the industrial and manufacturing sector. Mike has a Masters of Business Administration, an Engineering Degree, and a Member of the Institute of Directors. Mike is also co-owner / Director of Deep South Ice Cream, one of New Zealand’s leading manufacturers of premium ice cream and a Director of Mainland Football.
Mike specialises in the area of Total Asset Management within the industrial manufacturing sector and has consulted to leading organisations within New Zealand. In these roles, Mike has undertaken a number of wide ranging management improvement projects that involve a review of the status quo maintenance management systems currently in use.
Mike Killick is also facilitating:
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