MP 4704 Maintenance Management Strategy - University of Central Lancashire
Learning outcome 1: Demonstrate ability to apply and contrast theoretical knowledge of maintenance management.
Learning outcome 2: Apply knowledge of Reliability Centered Maintenance analysis on equipment (Investigate how equipment operates and critically evaluate the equipment and come up with an improvement plan).
Learning outcome 3: Evaluate the importance of Total Productive Maintenance and Reliability Centered Maintenance strategies and how they are implemented in industrial plant.
Learning outcome 4: Demonstrate the ability to follow the key steps which must be taken to implement the recommendations arising from Reliability Centered Maintenance, Total Productive Maintenance and Business Centered Maintenance strategies.
Learning outcome 5: Evaluate the impact of Maintenance strategies and their impact on reliability and organisation's strategies
Assignment brief
Reflect on the technical elements of the course, and critically review the course material.
Question
As consultant, you have attended a conference on maintenance management strategy. You have not been able to assist to a presentation you wanted to listen to, and the topic was of great interest to you.
One of the conference guest, Mr Rehana Begg, has identified what he called 10 myths about Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM)
You have been allocated ONE statement and tasked to critically assess the statement made.
[Hint1] As part of your presentation, you may want to introduce the terms used in the statement
[Hint 2] Students are expected to justify the statement. You must use suitable examples or references.
Statement 1
RCM is a type of maintenance
Statement 2
RCM is a lot of work
Statement 3
RCM must be done on all your assets
Statement 4
RCM training is excessive
Statement 5
Shortcut RCM methods and PM Optimization are faster and cheaper
Statement 6
RCFA is just as good as RCM
Statement 7
I can do RCM on my own
Statement 8
Anyone can facilitate an RCM analysis
Statement 9
A lot of RCM projects fail
Statement 10
RCM is a maintenance project
Attachment:- Maintenance Management Strategy.rar