Reliability-Centered Maintenance

New Dimension Solutions is a leader in RCM services and training in North America. We focus on the RCM2 methodology from Aladon Inc. (www.aladon.com), the world leaders in RCM process-ware and training materials. Over 60,000 people have been trained using the Aladon materials world-wide over the last 15 years. NDS has been providing RCM2 services and training over the last five years and has an outstanding track record of success with the application of RCM for asset-centric organizations.

Alyeska Pipeline Service

MWRA

The successful management of physical assets needs much more than technical skill. Increased mechanization and automation, greater technological complexity and continual pressure to reduce unit cost, are all drivers for more precisely focused asset management strategies. It is an environment where inadequate operating policies or unsuitable maintenance procedures can cost tens of thousands — even millions — of real dollars and lost customer service. Managers today must adopt radical new ways of thinking and acting. Acquiring the right skills by trial and error is no longer acceptable – trial takes too long and error is simply too expensive.

A real and demonstrable alternative does exist. . . Reliability-Centered Maintenance:

	RCM enables maintenance processes to respond quickly and positively to the hyper needs and business expectations. These include higher plant availability and equipment reliability, better and more consistent product quality, greater safety and environmental integrity, greater cost effectiveness and longer asset life
	RCM recognizes that new production technologies require new maintenance solutions, especially complex new technologies which make extensive use of electronics, pneumatics and hydraulics, and/or which embody high levels of built-in protective devices
	RCM acknowledges the importance of new maintenance techniques – especially condition monitoring, and predictive technologies while still acknowledging that traditional preventive maintenance initiatives has a role to play
	RCM substantially reduces routine (cyclic) workloads when applied to existing preventive maintenance programs, and also enables maintenance programs to be developed for new equipment with remarkable speed, confidence and precision
	RCM recognizes that successful maintenance demands complete understanding and cooperation between the maintainers and the users of the physical assets, and provides both groups with a common language and a set of values which enable them to achieve this cooperation
	RCM bases maintenance strategies on a broader, deeper and more precisely defined view of the business operating context of the equipment than any other strategy formulation technique. It also embodies all the technically and organizationally valid elements of HAZOP and TPM

As part of our commitment to extend the boundaries of reliability field research, New Dimension Solutions has just completed a 2 year study for the American Water Works Research Foundation (AwwARF). The research sites were Denver Water and Indianapolis Water and a reliability survey was completed by over 100 water/wastewater utilities across North America. The study assessed the current state of reliability at water utilities and explored how implementing RCM could increase reliability. For more on this study go to: Research

Above all, RCM enables maintenance managers to make the right choices in the light of modern thinking, to achieve quite remarkable step changes in maintenance effectiveness.

Life Cycle Costing Design Input & Review

Reliability-Centered Maintenance

RCM recognizes that new production technologies require new maintenance solutions, especially complex new technologies which make extensive use of electronics, pneumatics and hydraulics, and/or which embody high levels of built-in protective devices

RCM acknowledges the importance of new maintenance techniques – especially condition monitoring, and predictive technologies while still acknowledging that traditional preventive maintenance initiatives has a role to play

RCM substantially reduces routine (cyclic) workloads when applied to existing preventive maintenance programs, and also enables maintenance programs to be developed for new equipment with remarkable speed, confidence and precision

RCM recognizes that successful maintenance demands complete understanding and cooperation between the maintainers and the users of the physical assets, and provides both groups with a common language and a set of values which enable them to achieve this cooperation

RCM bases maintenance strategies on a broader, deeper and more precisely defined view of the business operating context of the equipment than any other strategy formulation technique. It also embodies all the technically and organizationally valid elements of HAZOP and TPM