RCM

Reliability Centered Maintenance



Introduction3

Reliability Centered Maintenance4

Crane4

Components of Crane5

Gears5

Wheels & Sheaves6

Motors6

Wire Rope7

Drive Shaft8

Causes of Crane Failures9

Electrocution9

Struck by Load9

Crushed During Assembly/Disassembly9

Failure of Cable/Boom10

Crane Tip Over10

Struck by Counterweight/Cab10

Falls10

Preventive Tasks11

Safety Equipment11

Cranium11

RCM Worksheet13

Conclusion14

References15

Reliability Centered Maintenance

Introduction

The maintenance has modified over the previous two decades, conceivably more than any other discipline of management. Because of the major modifications in the variety and quantity of the physical assets these modifications are done that includes the buildings, equipments and plant. These assets should be preserved all through the globe for new techniques of maintenance, more perplex designs, and modifying analysis on the maintenance responsibilities and organisation.

For the modification of expectations the maintenance is also answering, incorporating the swiftly increasing responsiveness of the degree to which the failure of crane has effects on the environment and its safety. It also includes the increasing responsiveness of the link among the product quality and maintenance, and the rising pressure to attain availability of high plant and to include the costs (Conklin, Stewart, & Kurosky, 2011).

RCM or the Reliability Centered Maintenance is a procedure for the assurance of the assets that carry on performing what their users' needs in the framework of present operating circumstances. RCM is normally utilized to attain the improvements and developments in the various fields like the modifications to the procedures of operating, development of the safe minimum maintenance levels, and the schemes, approaches and institution of the capital maintenance plans and regimes.

The triumphant execution and functioning of Reliability Centered Maintenance will direct to the boost in the machine uptime, cost effectiveness, and a better comprehending of the level of hazard that the association is overseeing. In addition, the reliability centered maintenance is also considered as a procedure for the establishment of the minimum safe levels of the maintenance (Turan, Lazakis, Judah, & Incecik, 2011).

Reliability Centered Maintenance

RCM or reliability centered maintenance is a framework of engineering that facilitates the definition and classification of an entire regime of maintenance. RCM considers the maintenance as the method for maintaining the functions of machinery that are required by a user in a specific operating environment or system.

RCM is a discipline that permits the stakeholders of the machinery to assess, evaluate, monitor, predict and usually comprehend the functioning of the physical assets of the device. All these things are personified in the starting part of the RCM process that is to recognize the operating circumstances of the device or machinery. After this phase, a FMECA report is written that is Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (Dehghanian, Fotuhi, Aminifar, & Billinton, 2013).

Crane

In this RCM report, the machinery or device that is selected is the Crane. Basically, it is machine that has a boom and a crane is designed to lower and raise the heavy weights and loads. There are several types of cranes available in the market but the basic two types are stationary crane and mobile crane. The stationary cranes can be a mounted type that is over headed on rails or it can be a tower type ...