RCM Blitz Public Training

Hello!

A few times each year I try to set aside some time to plan public training events for Reliability Solutions, Inc. course offerings. You would think after almost seven years in business I would have this process down to a science. Not even close!

There are several dilemas. Where should we hold the courses? What Hotels seem to do the best job at holding these events? How many rooms should we put on hold? How do we get the word out to people who might be interested in attending?

I always takes me the better part of two weeks to plan these events. I then spend the next two months worried about selling seats at the event!

To close this I now have our next event planned. RCM Blitz overview training will be held in Tampa, Florida at the Tampa Marriott Airport hotel on May 30 - June 1, 2006. For information on the course or to register for the course please go our website at www.reliabilitysolution.com

Looking forward to seeing some of you in sunny Tampa Florida!

Starting and Maintaining a Successful RCM Effort

Reliability Centered Maintenance is reliability tool that is gaining in recognition and use in the world of manufacturing maintenance. In the past ten years the tool has grown from being a one or two presentation subject at maintenance conferences to having a tool that now has a world-wide conference that is just about Reliability Centered Maintenance. RCM2007 sponsored by ReliabilityWeb in Honolulu, Hawaii will be third annual Reliability Centered Maintenance managers conference.

Each year at the annual RCM Managers Conference, companies and practitioners present case studies on the success and change that a Reliability Centered Maintenance culture has had on their business. While the conference presentations make the transition from firefighting maintenance culture to a RCM culture seem easy, those who have made the change know the work involved and the secerets to maintaining a successful RCM effort.

When Reliability Solutions, Inc. was formed we dedicated ourselves to becoming the worlds most successful provider of RCM Training, RCM Facilitation, and RCM Mentoring services. While others may have a huge list of clients to whom they have provided training, at Reliability Solutions we have built an impressive list of customers who we have trained and who continue to maintain a successful RCM effort! Our courses are not just focused on how to perform RCM, they also focus on how to Plan, Measure, Train, Perform, Implement and Communicate. The six key steps to ensuring a successful RCM Effort.

To read more about maintaining a successful RCM effort, please click the link below to read "Starting and Maintaining a Successful RCM Effort" by Douglas Plucknette posted on ReliabilityWeb.com.

Reducing Failure Consequences

Every Reliability Centered Maintenance methodology uses some type of decision logic to help lead the RCM team to a sound maintenance task that will mitigate the specific failure mode the team is working on. In most methodologies the decision logic ends with the statement "No Scheduled Maintenance". In reality "No Scheduled Maintenance means "Run to Failure" for this is a failure mode that can not be detected through On-Condition Maintenance, can not be prevented or reduced through Preventive Maintenance, and for which there is no business case for a redesign.

One question I have is should your RCM Decision Logic end with the statement “No Scheduled Maintenance”?

At Reliability Solutions, Inc. we bring our direct experience in manufacturing maintenance into our RCM Blitz process. As a result our Reliability Centered Maintenance methodology does not end with the statement "No Scheduled Maintenance". We understand the value maintenance brings to the world of manufacturing and when the RCM decision process leads the team to a run to failure decision we go two steps further with a Consequence Reduction Task and Spare Parts decision logic. RCM Blitz was designed to work best with manufacturing equipment reliability and we do everything we can to reduce the consequences of each and every failure mode.

To read more on our Consequence Reduction Techniques, click the following link and read my article "Beyond No Scheduled Maintenance" at ReliabilityWeb.com! http://www.reliabilityweb.com/articles/2002/no_scheduled_maintenance.htm