Introduction:

• Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) Cost module of Availability Workbench provides and maintain the optimal maintenance strategies required for your reliability, cost, and safety aspects.
• This module helps to evaluate the life cycle costs of the system based on different scenario.
• It considers FMECA to identify the critical failures.

Key Features:

• Graphically constructed system hierarchy diagram using the adopted Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) methodology
• Identification of critical failure modes and redundancy modelling facility.
• Able to do component and spare Importance ranking.
• Able to do the spare cost and interval Optimization
• Advice for decision making based on performance simulation using Monte Carlo simulation.
• Weibull analysis of field data and able to optimize plots for alternative maintenance strategies.
• BOM data can be used for RCM.
• RCM SAP® Portal, RCM MAXIMO® Portal, RCM ELLIPSE® Portal uses RCM Cost module for the analysis. These portals have RCM Cost module as link.
• These other maintenance strategies allowed are:
  • Scheduled Preventive Maintenance Tasks (Lubrication or Replacement)
  • Condition Monitoring Alarms
  • On-Condition Inspections
  • Inspections for Hidden Failures
  • Re-Design

Benefits:

• The prime objectives of the maintenance program like minimizing costs, meeting Safety and Environmental goals and meeting Operational goals can be met easily.
• RCMCost module is the total cost of ownership which helps the management to take the decision on system design, maintenance policies and investments in reliability improvements.

• Using multiple maintenance strategies user can take powerful decisions.
• Multiple standards are used to design the system hierarchy and identify the failure modes.
• Maintenance and spare optimization can be easily done.
• Powerful plots are generated to take decisions for the best optimized strategies.
• Weibull module is also along with the RCM cost module enables the age of the products.