Celebrating 1st Anniversary – Congratulations Conscious Reliability!

Conscious Reliability celebrates the first anniversary with tremendous success! In our first year, we are proud to announce that over 200 attendees and…
Knowledge: Cornerstone of Human Capital

Human capital is an essential element of the asset management process from strategy to operation. Human capital entails knowledge, habits, social and personality attributes, including…
RCM – 10 Myths Debunked

What do you know about Reliability Centered Maintenance? James Reyes-Picknell, December 8, 2017 Despite its well-documented successes, Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) has always drawn a…
What Can’t Be Replaced by Technology

What Can’t Be Replaced by Technology By Jesús R. Sifonte – October 5, 2017 The Phonograph came first in 1877, cassette players arrived in 1971,…
Our New Achievement – Nova Scotia Power Inc. Training – Canada

Our new achievement – the first all English RCM-R® class and 17 new Yellow Belts On 12 and 13 September, 2017, the first all English version…
RCM-R Basic Course Registration Open

PUBLIC COURSES HAVE ARRIVED RCM-R® courses are available in Calgary and Toronto CALGARY, ALBERTA - October 10, to 12, 2017 at Bankers Hall, Regus…
A Systematic Process of Data Collection – Condition Monitoring, A Closer Look

Condition Monitoring - A Closer Look By Jesús R. Sifonte – July 2017 Condition Monitoring is a broad term referring to the systematic process of…
Reingeniería del Mantenimiento Centrado en la Confiabilidad (RCM-R®)

Hemos visto que RCM se define como un proceso usado para determinar qué se debe hacer para mantener los activos haciendo lo que sus operadores…
What about RCM-R®? How does it stand when compared with SAE JA1011?

Reliability Centered Maintenance-Reengineered (RCM-R®) By Jesús R. Sifonte, 2017 We have seen that RCM is defined as a process to determine what must be done…
Evaluation Criteria for RCM-R

SAE JA1011 Standard - Evaluation Criteria for Reliability- Centered Maintenance (RCM) Processes By Jesús R. Sifonte June 2017 The SAE JA1011 Standard on Evaluation Criteria for…
What is Conscious Reliability® all about?

How it all got started About two years ago Jesus Sifonte, CMMI, invited James Reyes-Picknell to be a speaker at a congress that he was…
Infrastructure Renewal

Infrastructure Renewal – Economic Necessity A lot of attention is going to Infrastructure and its renewal. Here in Canada the recently elected Federal Government is…
RCM-R® A Note From the Authors

RCM-R® - Reliability Centered Maintenance: Reengineered - A Personal Note From the Authors
“ RCM-R® goes beyond what RCM alone can do. The basic successful method as defined in SAE JA-1011 remains intact. RCM-R® enhances that method, linking it to international standards for risk management and adding a degree of technical rigor rarely seen outside of the military, nuclear and aircraft industries. It adds a great deal of emphasis on what it takes to implement the method successfully – not only as a project (as has so often been done with other RCM methods), but as a sustainable program, and on leveraging the analysis results to maximize value generation and align closely with the intentions and precepts of the new international standard for Asset Management, ISO 550013. Asset Management, as it is now defined, is the coordinated effort of an organization to realize value from assets. That requires the balancing of costs, risks, opportunities and performance and it is normally implemented through an asset management system (not to be confused with purely computer based systems). Achieving what this new standard required entails an effort that must be based in part on risks. A method to identify risks arising from those assets it is managing is needed and RCM-R® is just such a method. It goes beyond other RCM methods however in its emphasis on technical rigor, implementation and leveraging of its findings. It truly engages the entire organization to realize value from its assets over their entire life cycle from conceptual design through to decommissioning and disposal. RCM, as defined in SAE JA-1011, has seen little development since the standard first emerged. Commercial interests have dominated the RCM landscape since the mid 1990s. Since the mid 2000s, the original thought leaders either passed away or faded into obscurity. The time is ripe for a new perspective and tool for reliability, more closely aligned with today’s thinking on Asset Management, more effective in a harsh business climate, leveraging today’s technological advancements and accommodating the shifting of demographics in our dynamic workforce that is actually getting younger. It is time for RCM to be re-engineered. We hope that our blend of experience and experimenting, ultimately culminating in our collaboration in the writing of this book provides that fresh approach. We hope that the work we’ve put into developing our methods and documenting them here, contributes to safety, environmental integrity, risk reduction and profitable industrial capability for years to come. Thank you for reading our work. We hope you will gain sufficient faith in what we’ve done to employ what we’ve learned in helping your organization on that journey of excellence we know as Asset Management enabled and enhanced by RCM-R® “ PURCHASE YOUR COPY TODAY! Go to Amazon.com/reliability to ship April 14, 2017.Cost Control or Value Generation-choosing the right proactive maintenance approach
Author: James Reyes-Picknell Posted: March 29, 2017 If you can’t sell all you can produce, then reducing costs is often the only way to improve…
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