Reliability-centred
Maintenance is a process used to determine - systematically and scientifically - what must
be done to ensure that physical assets continue to do what their users want them to do.
Widely recognised by maintenance professionals as the most cost-effective way to develop
world-class maintenance strategies, RCM leads to rapid, sustained and substantial
improvements in plant availability and reliability, product quality, safety and
environmental integrity.
The author and his
associates have helped users to apply RCM and its more modem derivative, RCM2, on more
than 1000 sites in 38 countries. These sites include all types of manufacturing
(especially automobile, steel, paper, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and food
manufacturing), utilities (water, gas and j electricity), armed forces, building services,
mining, telecommunications and transport. This book summarises this experience in the form
of an authoritative and completely practical description of what RCM2 is and how it should
be applied.
The second edition has been
comprehensively revised to incorporate the most recent developments in this field. It
includes more than 100 pages of new material on condition monitoring, the analysis of
functions and failures, human error, the management of risk, failure-finding and the
measurement of . maintenance performance. J
This book will be of immense
value to maintenance managers, and to anyone else concerned with the reliability,
productivity, safety and environmental integrity of physical assets. Its straightforward,
plant-based approach makes the book especially well suited to use in centres of higher
education.
John Moubray, BSc (Mech
Eng), spent his early career developing and implementing maintenance management systems,
first as a plant engineer then as a consultant. In the early 1980's he began to focus on
the industrial application of RCM under the guidance of the late F Stanley Nowlan. In
1986, he set up Aladon Ltd, a consulting and training company based in Lutterworth, UK. He
is currently managing director of Aladon, which specialises exclusively in the development
of reliability-centred management processes and their application to physical assets.
424 pages