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Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM): Implementation Made Simple

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RCM or Reliability Centered Maintenance is a great method for determining the right maintenance work to ensure asset function. It changed maintenance thinking from "fix it" to "maintain function" and avoid breakdown to begin with. It has been almost 30 years since Nowlan and Heap's original report on Reliability Centered Maintenance and yet - confusion and mystery still abound. Many RCM projects fail to realize the improvements that are desired at the outset.

The new book by Neil Bloom peals away the layers of fog the suround RCM and provides a clear way forward for anyone interested in improving reliability. Even small and midsize plants and facilities can take the information provided by "RCM - Implementation Made Simple" and begin to perform Reliability Centered Maintenance to improve plant performance.

I manage a community of over 55,000 maintenance and reliability professionals and I am recommending the each and every person read this book! Seasoned RCM experts along with people who are brand new to the concept will find things they can put to immediate use.

Thanks Neil for empowering the maintenance and reliability community and for giving us a tool we can all use as a way forward for improved maintenance and reliability.

I am a Reliability Engineering Coordinator at a chemicals plant. I have worked in Design and Manufacturing, Smelting, and Mining. I started my career as a junior design engineer, rising to a senior reliability engineer, and finally a Reliability Engineering Coordinator.

At previous employers I performed RCM exercises with great results, but this required enormous amounts of personal energy and time. In my current role I have already started using the language in this book to build greater support for the RCM processes amongst management, operations, engineering, and the critical frontline tradesmen and operators. The response has been nothing short of amazing.

The RCM processes described by Neil are not only powerful at aiding people in the understanding of true RCM, but the simplicity allows for quick progression through an RCM project. This book is a must read for any organization considering RCM.
I have recommended this book to my peers at my current employer and past employers and I would recommend it to any other maintenance and reliability professional.

I have worked in the maintenance business for 37 years. This is the first book I have read that addresses the age old problem of PM's on equipment in a clear cut and easy manner. In the industry we end up either performingpreventivemaintenance too often or not enough and often times not on
critical components. This book is a must read for anyone that is developing a PM program or looking to enhance their present program. By performing preventive maintenance on the RIGHT equipment and at the RIGHT time companies can realize greater efficiency and profits.

My background is from operation and maintenance management for over 30 years.

I have encountered RCM on several occasions, and thought that this was of academic interest, only. The long discussion of theory was something I believed could only be interesting for aircraft or nuclear power plants.

I work for Bilfinger Berger in Norway, as a maintenance management consultant. We started up a few years ago with a simplified version of RCM as a tool for the optimization of a PM-program. We found that RCM as a tool with the "basic seven" was a good philosophy for our work.

Reading the book of Neil Bloom has actually helped me to understand the process a lot better. The book is easy to read, and with a lot of interesting views.

One example is chapter 2 about the difficulties of RCM. I fully agree about the authors view on functional analysis and boundaries. This is not necessary, and I often refer to this chapter an let Neil Bloom do the arguing.

What I miss is a discussion of spare-part strategy together with the maintenance strategy since these two obviously are linked

In todays tough economic conditions, you have to make compromise between maintenance costs and safety of your plant. You have to keep the maintenance costs at practically minimum and reliability of your equipment and plant at practically maximum. The RCM techniques gives the right tools for accomplishing this. I have admired this book, read some chapters repeatedly. The book will be useful for maintenance and reliability engineers and for engineering managers in different sectors like aviation, power generation, petrochemical and especially for any process industry.