Reliability-Centered Maintenance [Hardcover]

John Moubray (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1997 | ISBN-10: 0831130784 | ISBN-13: 978-0831130787 | Edition: 2nd

Reliability-centered 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 recognized 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 apply RCM and its more modern derivative, RCM2, on more than 700 sites in 34 countries. These sites include all types of manufacturing (especially automobile, steel, paper, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and food manufacturing), utilities (water, gas, and electricity), armed forces, building services, mining, telecommunications, and transport. This book summarizes this experience in the form of an authoritative and practical description of what RCM2 is and how it should be applied. This book will be of 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 centers of higher education.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 423 pages
• Publisher: Industrial Pr; 2nd edition (April 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0831130784
• ISBN-13: 978-0831130787
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,119,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The definitive textbook on RCM, October 2, 2001

By 

Dana Netherton (St Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reliability-Centered Maintenance (Hardcover)

This book is the definitive textbook on RCM, the result of the accumulated experience of thousands of RCM reviews in nearly every industry and in dozens of countries around the world.

It presents RCM's distinctive "systems" approach to maintenance, offering sophisticated criteria for deciding among four kinds of scheduled tasks (not simply the replacement of individual non-repairable components), and equally sophisticated criteria for deciding among two other kinds of failure management policies (including redesign) if scheduled tasks are not appropriate.

If you wish to do RCM, you need this book plus a mentor to guide your early efforts. (How many of us learned to ride a bicycle without someone holding the handlebars?)

But if you simply wish to understand RCM -- you need this book.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Helpful source; good start for anyone., January 4, 2006

By 

D. Landry "jackofall;masterofnone" (Vancouver,B.C. CANADA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Reliability-Centered Maintenance Second Edition (Hardcover)

I purchased this book for a course that used it for a reference.

Overall it contains good information and provides understanding towards the concepts of RCM. I have a background in maintenance already and didn't have too hard of a time understanding the content; class helped, too. I noticed that some of the concepts and approaches to RCM were so simple in idea, that they are easily overlooked. It can add to your arsenal of tools that can help you do your job better and more efficiently. Overall the wording is understandable and isn't boring. Basically, I would say this book is suitable for someone in their 2nd-4th year in industrial maintenance desiring to be a planner or maint. manager position.

I enjoyed it because it opened my eyes to new ideas and exposed misconceptions about old RCM tactics that are inefficient.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best RCM textbook ever written, June 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Reliability-Centered Maintenance (Hardcover)

I never cease to be amazed by some of the nonsensical comments we see on the Internet, particularly from people who read a book about an activity that requires complex skills -- discover that they can't do it without help -- and blame the book!

You won't learn to *do* RCM by reading this book, or any book -- just as you won't learn to ride a bicycle by reading a book. You'll learn to *do* it only by *doing* it -- and you'll have fewer spills on your first ride if you have help from someone who has already done it (and who knows how to teach).

But if you're not trying to learn to *do* RCM -- if all you want is to *understand* RCM, its concepts and its principles -- then stop searching and get this book. There isn't a better one out there. I've read the others, and I know.

Dana Netherton (Chairman, RCM committee, SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers))