RCM Blitz (Reliability Centered Maintenance)

Why RCM Blitz™?

RCM Blitz™ differs from other Reliability Centered Maintenance Services or methodologies as it was not only designed to address equipment reliability, but also: health factors, safety concerns, and environmental incidents and reduce accidents. The RCM Blitz™ methodology was designed as a response to manufacturing companies that found traditional RCM too expensive and time consuming. The RCM Blitz™ methodology begins with the critical manufacturing assets only resulting in immediate return.

Recognized as one of the top RCM Methodologies in the industry, RCM Blitz™ was developed by Doug Plucknette in 1997 when he recognized the need to develop a RCM methodology that was not only quick and efficient, but focused on improving manufacturing reliability while reducing health, safety and environmental incidents and accidents. While some think of RCM Blitz™ as a streamlined method, the RCM Blitz process meets and exceeds the SAE JA-1011 and JA-1012 standards for Traditional RCM.

The RCM Blitz™ utilizes that allows the user to upload their equipment hierarchy to the component level with functionality designed to build both speed and accuracy into the analysis process.

RCM Blitz™ works because we address and mitigate the Failure Modes that result from the context and environment in which you operate your equipment.

Traditional RCM methodologies wait and perform their analysis following significant failure events, RCM Blitz™ is proactive. Tasks and analysis can be performed before failures, eliminating these events before they ever occur. We bring nearly twenty-five years of experience in working with companies to build efficient failure modes based proactive maintenance strategies that ensure reliability and safety.

Who Should Attend?:

Top Learning Objectives:

• Adapt advance techniques such as PF Curve and statistical analysis to optimize your maintenance program
• Analyse and improve your existing maintenance program and eliminate or reduce your current failures
• Minimize waste in Preventive Maintenance (PM) activity to diminish unnecessary costs
• Distinguish why PM’s & PdM’s tasks fail and how to ensure your maintenance tasks are effective
• Gain insights into Predictive (Pdm) & Condition Monitoring techniques like oil analysis and vibration analysis
• Develop a comprehensive maintenance strategy that is focused on identifying and eliminating failure modes
• Identify and eliminate ineffective maintenance tasks
• Identify assets and build the business case for performing and implementing RCM

• The History of Reliability Centered Maintenance
• RCM Blitz Process Flow
• Reliability Measures – OEE, TEEP, MTBF & MTTR
• The RCM Analysis Contract
• Writing Equipment Operational History Reports
• Writing Equipment and Process Functions
• Equipment Failure Curves

• Writing Equipment Functions
• Writing Functional Failures
• The FMECA Process (Failure Modes, Effects Criticality Analysis)
• Writing Failure Modes
• ssessing the Probability of Failure

• Writing Failure Effects
• Assessing the Consequence of Failure
• The RCM Decision Process
• Predictive Maintenance Tools
• Process Verification
• Preventive Maintenance Strategies
• Redesign in RCM Terms
• Consequence Reduction Tasks

• Accessing Spare Parts
• Completing Your Analysis
• Prioritizing Tasks
• Developing an Implementation Strategy
• Managing Your RCM Analysis
• RCM Facilitation Strategies
• Marketing Your RCM Program
• The RCM Analysis Review Meeting
• Printing RCM Reports
• Tracking the Analysis Results

• Over 40 years of experience in all aspects of Maintenance Management, having trained more than 20,000 managers, engineers, tradespeople and supervisors from over 3,000 organizations in 20+ countries
• He has vast experience in a wide variety of industry sector including mining, utilities & power generation, oil & gas, petrochemical, manufacturing, primary metal, auto, food & beverage, military, government etc
• He was also a frequent speaker at maintenance and engineering conferences and author of over 100+ articles.
• Author of Reliability Centered Maintenance Using RCM Blitz and Clean, Green and Reliable
• Founder and President of Reliability Solution, a company that opened its doors in 1999