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Basic Reliability Centered Maintenance(RCM) Analyst 3-Day Course

Course Description

The 3-day course covers the origins of RCM, from the efforts of Stanley Nowlan and Howard Heap to develop a basis for maintenance based on a better understanding of the relationship between scheduled maintenance and reliability culminating in the airline industry's Maintenance Steering Group (MSG), through adaptation of the MSG approach to the DoD environment, to recent developments in both commercial and military environments. It provides an overview of the RCM process and details the seven steps of RCM analysis defined by SAE Standard JA1011. Emphasis is placed on the FMEA, the failure consequence evaluation, and the range of function preservation strategies. The final day of the course includes a series of small-group exercises designed around common technologies common in industry, and a computer based workshop that provides students with an opportunity to apply their newly learned theory to actual analysis problems utilizing RCM software.

Who Should Take the Course

Individuals with a need to optimize the organizations maintenance process regardless of the application (military, aviation, or a commercial manufacturing plant or power facility). Engineers, maintenance professionals, plant/facility managers and operators will benefit from the insight the course gives into the fundamentals of RCM and its utility in achieving reliability improvements through better maintenance.

What the Student Will Learn

The student will understand the history, the benefits, and the fundamentals of RCM and how it applies to day-to-day operations. Successful completion of this course will foster the students understanding of RCM concepts and processes and enable participation in a RCM analysis.

Included Materials

Students will be provided all required materials.

Roger Collard, CMRP

Picture of Collard Mr. Collard has over 20 years of experience based in Reliability Centered Maintenance program development, predictive maintenance techniques, and failure analysis programs and is considered as one of the leaders in the field. His background is strongly suited to manufacturing, heavy industrial applications, and mining with a strong focus on stationary and mobile equipment. Mr. Collard is Wyle Laboratory's Chief RCM Engineer and has led many training seminars and presented conference technical papers on the subject. He is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) through the Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP). He is a graduate of the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mining Engineering and is currently enrolled in the Master of Maintenance and Reliability Engineering program with Monash University, Australia, and the University of Tennessee.
Scheduled to teach the next course.

David Nelson, CMRP

Picture of Nelson David Nelson is an engineer and RCM practitioner for Wyle Laboratories Inc. (formerly Advanced Information Engineering Services/Veridian Engineering). He has over 20 years experience in Naval aviation in various positions in maintenance, operations, training, and operational testing plus 3 years practicing and teaching RCM at Wyle. Mr. Nelson graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and is a Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP). Additionally, he is a NAVAIR Level II certified RCM instructor. He has presented technical papers on RCM at the University of Tennessee Maintenance and Reliability Conference (MARCON) and RCM 2006. Mr. Nelson is a member in good standing of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).

William Waller, CMRP

Picture of Waller William Waller is a senior RCM analyst and instructor for Wyle Laboratories, Inc. He has 24 years of experience in maintenance/production supervision and logistic support of various U.S. Naval aircraft and equipment. Mr. Waller has a total of 4 years experience practicing and teaching RCM to a wide range of personnel. Mr. Waller is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional designated through the Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals. Additionally, he is a NAVAIR Level II certified RCM instructor. He has provided RCM training to Navy Fleet Support Team engineers, DoD contractors, and other commercial industry maintenance personnel, managers, planners, and engineers. Mr. Waller has extensive RCM facilitation and analysis experience on a wide range of military and commercial industrial equipment.

Course Outline

  1. Module 1-1 Introduction to RCM
  2. Module 1-2 Terms & Concepts
  3. Module 1-3 RCM Process
  4. Module 1-4 FMECA
  5. Module 1-5 Failure Consequences
  6. Module 1-6 RCM Task Overview
  7. Module 2-1 Service/Lubrication Task Development
  8. Module 2-2 On Condition Task Development
  9. Module 2-3 Scheduled Restoration/Discard Task Development
  10. Module 2-4 Failure Finding Task Development
  11. Module 2-5 One-time Change Development
  12. Module 2-6 Run-to-Failure
  13. Module 2-7 Age Exploration
  14. Module 2-8 Packaging and Implementation
  15. Module 2-9 Sustaining the Analysis
  16. Module 3-1 VRCM Software Workshop
  17. Module 3-2 Course Summary