Question: Assignment 1: MRA Process and its design Context
Developing a preventive maintenance program involves following various processes. You need to understand the objectives of the processes and gain experience with applying them. This will allow you to determine how to approach a specific requirement for the review or development of a maintenance program.
Key Questions
1. What are the processes that can be employed in developing a logical approach to preventive maintenance program development for a particular situation?
2. What are the most effective ways to define system behaviour so that the failuremodes worth considering can be identified?
3. What logic should be applied to arrive at an effective and efficient preventive maintenance program?
Associated subject learning outcomes
The subject learning outcomes that are relevant to this assignment include:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of the available theory in the area of maintenance requirements analysis.
2. Apply appropriate theory to the problem of maintenance requirements analysis. 3. Demonstrate an understanding of basic reliability theory and terminology.
4. Explain the uses, and the limitations of use, of simple reliability modelling techniques in making decisions on maintenance intervals.
5. Design appropriate methods for performing maintenance requirements analysis on specific equipment given a specific situation.
6. Audit the analysis of others to determine the adequacy of the analysis.
Task: Smith of "RCM Methodology" (E-reading) outlines a seven step process to determine a baseline definition of the preferred PM tasks for a system.?Provide a dot point summary describing the main features of Smith's methodology for the first four of his process steps, i.e.:
1. System selection and information collection
2. System boundary definition
3. System description and functional block diagram
4. System functions and functional failures.