RCM2 - TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1 Introduction to Reliability-centred Maintenance
1.1 The changing world of maintenance
1.2 Maintenance and RCM
1.3 RCM: The seven basic questions
1.4 Applying the RCM process
1.5 What RCM achieves

Chapter 2 Functions
2.1 Describing functions
2.2 Performance standards
2.3 The operating context
2.4 Different types of functions
2.5 How functions should be listed

Chapter 3 Functional Failures
3.1 Failure
3.2 Functional failures

Chapter 4 Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
4.1 What is a failure mode?
4.2 Why analyse failure modes?
4.3 Categories of failure modes
4.4 How much detail?
4.5 Failure effects
4.6 Sources of information about modes and effects
4.7 Levels of analysis and the information worksheet

Chapter 5 Failure Consequences
5.1 Technically feasible and worth doing
5.2 Hidden and evident functions
5.3 Safety and environmental consequences
5.4 Operational consequences
5.5 Non-operational consequences
5.6 Hidden failure consequences
5.7 Conclusion

Chapter 6 Proactive Maintenance 1: Preventive Tasks
6.1 Technical feasibility and proactive tasks
6.2 Age and deterioration
6.3 Age-related failures and preventive maintenance
6.4 Scheduled restoration and scheduled discard
6.5 Failures which are not age-related

Chapter 7 Proactive Maintenance 2: Predictive Tasks
7.1 Potential failures and on-condition maintenance
7.2 The P-F interval
7.3 The technical feasibility of on-condition tasks
7.4 Categories of on-condition techniques
7.5 On-condition tasks: some of the pitfalls
7.6 Linear and non-linear P-F curves
7.7 How to determine the P-F interval
7.8 When on-condition tasks are worth doing
7.9 Selecting proactive tasks

Chapter 8 Default Actions 1: Failure-finding
8.1 Default actions
8.2 Failure-finding
8.3 Failure-finding task intervals
8.5 The technically feasibility of failure-finding

Chapter 9 Other Default Actions
9.1 No scheduled maintenance
9.2 Redesign
9.3 Walk-around checks

Chapter 10 The RCM Decision Diagram
10.1 Integrating consequences and tasks
10.2 The RCM decision process
10.3 Completing the decision worksheet
10.4 Computers and RCM

Chapter 11 Implementing RCM Recommendations
11.1 Implementation - the key steps
11.2 The RCM audit
11.3 Task descriptions
11.4 Implementing once-off changes
11.5 Work packages
11.6 Maintenance planning and control systems
11.7 Reporting defects

Chapter 12 Actuarial Analysis and Failure Data
12.1 The six failure patterns
12.2 Technical history data

Chapter 13 Applying the RCM Process
13.1 Who knows?
13.2 RCM review groups
13.3 Facilitators
13.4 Implementation strategies
13.5 RCM in perpetuity
13.6 How RCM should not be applied
13.7 Building skills in RCM

Chapter 14 What RCM Achieves
14.1 Measuring maintenance performance
14.2 Maintenance effectiveness
14.3 Maintenance efficiency
14.4 What RCM achieves

Chapter 15 A Brief History of RCM
15.1 The experience of the airlines
15.2 The Evolution of RCM2
15.3 Other Versions of RCM and the SAE Standard

Appendix 1: Asset hierarchies and functional block diagrams
Appendix 2: Human error
Appendix 3: A continuum of risk
Appendix 4: Condition monitoring
Glossary
Bibliography
Index