Good RCM Requires Knowledge and Experience

Reliability Centered Maintenance - It's a seven step process so it should be very simple, just follow the seven steps, do a little RCM Blitz and the next thing you know the reliability of your equipment, people and business will improve over night.

I wish were that simple.

Seems like every time I hold a RCM Facilitator Training event I have someone in class that believes that he/she can run right back to work and start facilitating perfect RCM events without ever being mentored through an RCM analysis.My answer is always the same, "You're free to try it out and good luck". Facilitating a RCM analysis takes a little more than understanding the seven steps of RCM. The skill set of a RCM facilitator is three fold;

- Knowledge of RCM

- Knowledge of Failure Modes

- Knowledge of Group Dynamics

You have to be able to manage the team and lead the process! If your lacking in one of these areas your RCM analysis will suffer and the results from your RCM analysis will suffer as well.

At Allied Reliability we are the only company in the world to offer RCM Blitz Facilitator training and mentoring. Lead by RCM Blitz creator Doug Plucknette, all of our RCM Blitz Facilitators and Trainers have achieved certification. If your people arn't certified, your not doing RCM Blitz!

For more information on RCM Blitz, read my book Reliability Centered Maintenance - Using the RCM Blitz Method. To buy my book click the following link: http://books.mro-zone.com/RCM_Blitz_by_Douglas_Plucknette_p/mm9780982051771.htm

RCM Implementation

While Implementation may be the graveyard to many RCM programs, it is also the key to having a successful initiative. At Allied Reliability we work closely with our clients to ensure they understand the task at hand when it comes to implementing the tasks developed in their RCM Blitz analyses. The first thing you need to complete the implementation of your RCM analysis is a plan. Who will be responsible to track the implementation? We call this your implementation manager. Make one individual responsible for tracking each task and reporting the progress on a week to week basis.The second thing that needs to take place is resource allocation. You will need to give people time to implement these tasks. Time for writing procedures, linking them to you CMMS and scheduling them for you maintenance crafts people.The third thing you need to do is prioritize and assign your RCM tasks. Each task should be given a priority based on the probability and consequence of the failure, and each task should be assigned to a specific individual along with a due date.In completing the above three steps your company will be well on its way to establishing a successful RCM effort. If your company is looking to start a successful RCM effort, contact Allied Reliability and learn about RCM Blitz, the fastest growing and most successful methodology available.

Why Blog About RCM Blitz?

My friends think I'm a nerd! I told them recently that I write a blog about my company Allied Reliability , Inc. , my product RCM Blitz and about RCM Facilitator Training. This was the conversation one night at dinner with clients and fellow consultants at IMC2006. The conversation went something like this:

Doug - Hey, I was wondering are any of you guys blogging about your business or products?

Reply - Blogging.....What the heck is blogging ?

Doug - Its a form of communication where you can post letters, notes and articles about your business and things your interested in. If people search for your company or products in Google or as a Blog they can find the articles and it's another great way to find new clients.

Reply - And, you have time to do this?

Doug - Sure it only takes a few minutes a week or month to sit down at the lap top and write something up and post it.

Reply - Wow, your a real nerd!Well it guess that could be true, but I just don't deal well with being bored and this gives me something to do. Sometimes people even read these and write back! Now that my friends is technology at its best!

Read RCM Blitz - The Book is Out!

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RCM Blitz - The Book

My new book Reliability Centered Maintenance - Using the RCM Blitz Method will be featured and released this year RCM2009 conference in Daytona Beach, Florida!

For anyone who has ever been interested in Reliability Centered Maintenace, RCM Facilitator Training or learning how to perform RCM at your plant, this book gives all the details of the most successful RCM methodology. Following the conference the book will be available on Reliabilityweb.com!

RCM Leaders and RCM Followers

Every subject has its experts, and when it comes identifying real subject matter experts you should always look for a leader. In the world of Reliability Centered Maintenance the leaders or experts can identified by the contributions they have made to the subject of RCM. Just ten years ago one could only find one RCM methodologie that actually discussed how to select assets for RCM analysis those same experts at the time expressed the need to show a return on investment when it came to RCM training, facilitation and implementation. That methodology was RCM Blitz!

While others were insisting that RCM needed to be completed on every asset at your plant, the experts who created RCM Blitz understood that a RCM culture can only be created by showing a return on investment for your RCM effort.

Fast-Forward to today and we can new see who the followers are when it comes to reliability centered maintenance. Nearly everyone running advertising for RCM now admits that if your company is interested in RCM, you must focus your analyses on assets where there will be a return on investment.

While others may run these ads, only one methodology actually instructs how to identify the best assets for analysis. That methodology is RCM Blitz.

IF your company is interested in learning RCM from the leader in Reliability Centered Maintenance, contact Doug Plucknette at Allied Reliability at 585-329-7040.

Managing RCM

In my mind Reliability Centered Maintenance is the only way to develop a complete maintenance strategy for critical manufacturing assets. One of the best ways to manage a good RCM program is to complete your first RCM analysis and begin implementing tasks within one week of completing that analysis. Continue to implement those tasks and do not schedule your next RCM until 80% the first analysis has been implemented.

Too often people underestimate the amount of implementation work that comes out of a RCM analysis and in doing this they schedule several analyses back to back. Once the work has been completed and they begin to see the mountain of work that now needs to be implemented they become overwhelmed. As a result they will make 1 of 2 mistakes:

1) They give up all together and the RCM program is now a failed effort.
2) They cherry pick the task list, looking for simple things or items that might show a quick pay back. This will typically show some improvement but it will not be sustained, the maintenance strategy will be incomplete and within 6 months they will determine that their RCM program failed.

It is important to understand that RCM works, but only when all the mitigating tasks are implemented and performed as scheduled.

To learn more about RCM Blitz and RCM Facilitator training contact plucknetted@alliedreliability.com.