Rcm Guidebook: Building a Reliable Plant Maintenance Program

By Jim August

RCM Guidebook: Building a Reliable Plant Maintenance Program is a must-have for those responsible for developing plant maintenance programs. It provides a basic outline of a complex subject. It explains how to build a robust maintenance program. It includes guidance for engineers and managers on how to keep it simple. It provides many real plant examples. Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) is a risk-management process that is objective, measurable, and systematic as it selects and performs effective preventive maintenance (PM) tasks. This text provides what readers really need - guidance on how to keep PM development with RCM simple and understandable. This text will appeal to a range of readers, providing a nuts and bolts reference material on practical RCM use. August gives readers a step-by-step explanation of maintenance plan development. He begins with a three primary utility requirements for maintenance optimization, and explains the roles of equipment templates, component failures, work scopes, practical implementation barriers, process considerations, data control, RCM standards, and software applications.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593700075
• ISBN13: 9781593700072
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Pennwell Books
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 10.2"