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RCM – Reliability Centered Maintenance

RCM - Reliability Centered Maintenance is a process used to determine - systematically and scientifically - what must be done to ensure that the physical operating systems continue to deliver the needs of its users. Widely recognized by maintenance professionals as the best cost-effective way to develop strategies for "World-Class Maintenance" the RCM provides to obtain a rapid sustainable and substantial improvement in plant availability and reliability as well as quality product, safety aspects and the environment.

Risk Management applied to Physical Assets

Risk Management is the term applied to a logical and systematic method of establishing the context, identifying, analyzing, evaluating, treating, monitoring and communicating risks associated with any activity, function or process to enable organizations to minimize losses and maximize opportunities.

It is still not properly understood by administrators as a decisive process to avoid the non-fulfillment of its strategic objectives in an efficient and systematic, covering the main dimensions of business: Operations, Finance, Information Technology, Environment, Labour, Projects and Technology, among others.

If we increase the operational reliability of productive activities, so the risks related decrease. If we can make this management in a systematic way we will have a powerful tool to control possible losses, and we know them and measure them properly acting proactively in order to minimize them.

Human Reliability

The reliability of a production system can never be contemplated with a restricted view of equipment and its components, without understanding that the human element is an integral part of the process.

Since RCM recommends that human errors, whether in operation or maintenance, must be listed during the survey of the problems and properly dealt with, this understanding becomes more clear.

So if the human element is part of the process may fail in the same way, and these failures redundarão loss of important functions in the production process as a whole.

These failures are not necessarily related to lack of preparation, disability or lack of commitment, but may be related to ergonomic conditions, sensory physiological or psychological unfavorable. At this point there is the human reliability to study and bring the correct steps to appropriate management to this type of failure.

How much percent of the process is affected by this type of failure within our factories? Certainly much. Here in Brazil, about 90% of car accidents are caused by human error.

The Fourth Generation of Asset Management

The purpose of any maintenance strategy developed using the RCM is to maximize the effectiveness of an active, minimizing the effects and / or the probability of failure, or to maximize profits and reduce losses, like the Risk Management. From an asset management context, the RCM is therefore Risk Management. Thus the fourth generation tends to use the Asset Management along with Risk Management associated with the occurrence of the event, allowing a clearer view of the damages to be avoided and the benefits that can be achieved within a framework of corporate management. Securities and investment in contingency coverage are better defined , bringing the cost effectiveness involved and increasing the competitiveness of business. These factors combined with the recognition of the importance of the human element in the process of increasing the reliability and human reliability matter and the development of new predictive methods and measurement and demonstration of results, certainly promises a more effective results related to management failures and their consequences.

Standards - SAE JA1011/12 - ISO 31000 - PAS 55

SAE JA1011/12 (RCM)

The standard SAE JA1011 is a summary document containing a preface, a glossary and a bibliography. It is recommended to be referenced in all organizations wishing to apply RCM.

The scope and range of SAE JA1012 ("A Guide to the Reliability-Centered Maintenance - RCM - Standard") amplifies and clarifies each of the key criterias listed in SAE JA1011, and summarizes additional issues that should be considered when applying RCM successful.
ISO 31000 (RISK)

In 2009 it launched the first version of ISO 31000, that addresses the key issues of Risk Management. Unlike other well-known ISO standards ISO 31000 is not certificationt. They emphasized that the Risk Management should be absorbed by the business philosophy of the organization and can be applied in all strategic and operational levels in order to add value to their internal processes and practices, together with the existing standards, and not as a separate activity, or to replace other standards.
PAS 55 (ASSET MANAGEMENT)

PAS 55 is a document designed to detail the best practices for asset management, from strategy life cycle to the daily maintenance (cost / risk / performance). With great emphasis on risk management related to possible failure, will better effective management of the asset. It allows the integration of all aspects of asset lifecycle: from first recognition of the need for the project acquisition, construction, commissioning, use or operation, maintenance, renewal, modification and / or final disposal. It is a publication of BSI British Standards with the rigor of a publicly available specification. PAS 55 was started and is now distributed worldwide and supported by the Institute of Asset Management (IGA). He describes in detail what should be done, but not how to do it. It is similar to an ISO standard, which is likely to become in some years (ISO 55000).

Training and Technology Transfer

The process of Operational Asset Management involves the participation of the main responsible for risk management and operational reliability of the plant, high managerial, operational / production areas / and maintenance, with the collaboration of all others who have a legitimate interest in the physical system in focus ( process engineering, safety, environment).

It is worth remembering that the optimal performance of the plant requires the participation of cross-functional teams for a full and simultaneous compliance of all operational variables on the processes in focus.

In order to technologically empower these teams, SQL BRASIL developed training courses for the teams components, with the objective of transferring technology enabling companies to develop their programs with sufficiency of reliability and risk management of assets.

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Nowadays, physical and financial health of most increasingly organizations depend on the physical and functional continuity of its assets, meaning that the pressure on those responsible to keep them operating becomes more intense.

This pressure is exerted not only by customers who demand high standards of quality, but also by regulators that require continuity, security and lack of aggression to the environment of a severe increasingly.

• How to maintain high reliability reliability in processes, manage the risks associated with failures to maintain acceptable levels and still be competitive and sustainable?
• SQL BRASIL continually have specialized in these areas, using existing methodologies existing such as RCM, and is ready to face these challenges together with your company.
• Take the right actions at the right time, and they alone, avoiding the waste of resources. This is the only way for any company that wants to stay competitive in today's world.

"It is not enough to perform maintenance tasks in the right way, it is necessary to perform in the right way the right tasks."

John Moubray

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