Standards Support and Decision Diagrams

What Standards are Included in the RCMCost Module?

RCMCost supports Reliability Centered Maintenance standards such as SAE JA1011, MSG-3 and MIL-STD-2173(AS) by providing a structured method for entering FMECA data and simulating the effects of different maintenance strategies on cost, safety the environment and operational issues.

The RCM decision making process is therefore substantially enhanced by the ability to quickly simulate the effects of preventive tasks, inspection tasks and condition monitoring taken into account ageing, hidden failures, maintenance crew costs, spares costs and availability etc.

Standards and Decision Diagrams

Reliability Centered Maintenance decision diagrams are utilized in SAE JA1011, MSG-3 and MIL-STD-2173(AS) to provide a logical process for workgroups to determine what type of maintenance strategy to adopt for a given failure cause. The diagrams ask questions which often require analysis before a conclusion may be reached.

In addition these diagrams follow a sequential process which may not be appropriate in identifying the optimal task or combinations of tasks for a given failure cause. However, RCMCost provides the full flexibility required to allow users to quickly compare the effects of different practical maintenance strategies and condition monitoring using well-known scientific methods.

The RCMCost module may be used to produce reports similar to those in the SAE JA1011, MSG-3 and MIL-STD-2173(AS) standards. Reports may contain FMECA data, maintainability data, RCM decision data etc.

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