Optimizing a Condition-Based Maintenance Program Through: Streamlined Reliability-Centered Maintenance, 1999 Engineering Conference Proceedings

Michael E. Creecy

General Manager, Industrial Services

ERIN Engineering and Research, Inc.

Walnut Creek, CA, USA

Dean B. Parks

Senior Engineer, Industrial Services

ERIN Engineering and Research, Inc.

Walnut Creek, CA, USA

Predictive Maintenance (PdM) programs have been in practice for years in most industries. However many of these programs has not been successful. Their application has been haphazard by small groups that have usually not been part of a coordinated maintenance program. These PdM programs have not been supported by Senior Management,

lack on-going justification, and are not perceived as a vital part of keeping the assets of a facility at highest possible productive levels.

Modern Reliability-Centered Maintenance programs have not been implemented because they have been viewed as requiring excessive resources and time. A new methodology called Streamlined Reliability-Centered Maintenance , makes RCM a practical, effective, and efficient method for evaluating and implementing predictive/preventive maintenance programs. Streamlined RCM provides a valuable tool for determining how to most effectively apply the various Predictive Maintenance Technologies. Streamlined Reliability-Centered Maintenance has the added advantage of coordinating the specific application of all of the PdM Technologies. It can also identify those areas where Run-to Failure or some type of Functional Testing would be a more cost-effective maintenance technique. Streamlined Reliability-Centered Maintenance can also address those areas of maintenance where no PdM technologies are applicable.