Reliability RCM - FMECA
Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) is different from standard practice. It is an industrial maintenance technique based on the analysis of system functions. How to understand the RCM and FMECA management methods and how they can be used to build a maintenance plan?
BEMAS offers you 2 practical afternoons.
This course is also part of the Maintenance & Asset Management Training Cycle
Content and learning objectives
- Introduction
- Some acronyms
- Definition of the concept of maintenance
- Evolution of the concept of maintenance
- Objective of the RCM methodology
- Definition
- The interest of RCM
- When to launch an RCM study?
- MERIDE study : Macro-criticality
- Prerequisite: The functional tree
- Asset cadastre
- Structural tree: Functional breakdown
- Technology tree: Functional decomposition
- Exercise
- Documents to be collected
- RCM: The 7 basic steps
- Specifying functions
- Describing a function
- Notion of standard performance
- The operational context
- Primary and secondary functions
- RCM: The 7 basic steps
- Identifying potential functional failures
- Definition
- Different points of view
- Exercises
- Analyse failure modes and their causes
- Definition
- Designation of a failure mode
- Categories of failure modes
- Mistakes not to be made
- Exercises
- Listing the effects of failures
- Introduction
- Key issues
- Exercises
- Estimating criticality
- Selection of maintenance tasks
- Eligibility of proposed maintenance tasks
- The RCM team: the role of facilitator
Who is this training for?
This training aims to provide you with the essential basic principles, good practices in maintenance and associated methodologies, in order to start your function in a sustainable way. This 4-hour training course is aimed at:
- Maintenance Engineers with little or no background and knowledge ;
- Technicians called upon to take charge of reliability projects;
- Production Managers who wish to become Maintenance Managers.
About the trainer
Pascal Leblanc is Senior Project Manager in Maintenance Engineering. In the industry for 30 years, he has more than 15 years of experience in maintenance, including 7 years as head of the "Methods and Reliability" department at ENGIE Solutions where he manages a team of 15 reliability engineers working on various projects in the steel, nuclear, pharmaceutical and food industries. He is CMRP certified and has also given training courses at CEGIS and was a member of the BEMAS expert committee in 2017. Since January 2021, he has been a Senior Instructor at the ENGIE Academy.