 A comprehensive maintenance data base which provides a much deeper general

understanding of the equipment in its operating context together with a wider sense
of ownership of maintenance problems and their solutions.
 Greater motivation of individuals especially people who are involved in the
application of RCM.
 Better teamwork among people at different levels, management, supervisors,
technicians/ artisans and operators.

Basic Steps of Applying RCM

 Prepare for the analysis

 Select the equipment to be analysed
 Identify functions
 Identify functional failures
 Identify and evaluate the effects of failure
 Identify causes of failure (RCA)
 Select maintenance tasks.

Work Breakdown

WBS can be defined as a deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to

be executed by the maintenance or project team to accomplish the project or
maintenance objectives and create the required deliverables. It is a cornerstone of
effective planning, execution, controlling, monitoring and reporting. All the work
contained in WBS is to be identified, estimated, scheduled and budgeted.
The WBS of the maintenance is as portrayed in Figure 1;

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 Bottle Capper
Maintenance

Electrical Instrument Mechanical Hydraulics/ Pneumatics

Inspection Inspection Inspection Inspection

Electrical Capper Chucks Pneumatic/ Hydraulic

Contactors/ Valves
Breakers

WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4

Work Breakdown Structure: Figure 1

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Cost Plan

A WBS provides useful means of estimating the cost of maintenance project. The cost
plan estimates are entered at the lowest level, Work Package 1 (WP1), and rolled up to
successive levels. The purpose is to estimate the cost of the maintenance.

WORK PACKAGE 1

July August September

Manhours

Skilled 0.5 hrs 1.5hrs 0.2hrs

R 200.00 R 550.00 R 150.00

Unskilled 0.3 hrs 2hrs 0.2hrs

R 75.00 R 150.00 R 90.00

Materials

Consumables R 150.00 R 100.00 R 100.00

Parts R 2 000.00 R 2 500.00 R 1 500.00

Equipment & Tools R 10 000.00 R 10 500.00 R 7 000.00

Monthly Totals R 12 425.00 R 13 300.00 R 8 840.00

GRAND TOTAL R 34 565.00

Cost Plan: Figure 2

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 Network Diagram

A network diagram shows the series of interlinked events that should be followed from the beginning to the completion of the
maintenance. Depicted below in Figure 3 is an Activity on node presentation diagram which represents the flow of activities which
needs to be systematically executed in order to complete the maintenance.

1 9 9 11 12 17
3 D 8 3 L 2 2 Y 5
4 12 12 14 14 19

19 24 24 24
0 0 1 5 9 19 0 V 5 FINISH
5 9
START 0 A 4 0 F 10 19 24 0
0 E 5
0 1 1 5 9 19
5 9

1 8 8 12 12 14
4 P 7 2 Q 4 5 J 2
5 12 10 14 17 19

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Critical Path

It refers to a series of interdependent task which are most likely to take the longest time
which is A-E-F-V, hence determining the length of maintenance.

Resource Chart

It is a chart that depicts the resource aggregation of the resource requirements to each
resource and is derived from the respective bar chart of that resource. Figure 4, shows a
resource chart for manpower requirement expressed in manhours.

Description Period (In Weeks)

Electrical contactors
Electrical Breakers
Pneumatics
Capper chucks
Cleaning
Bearings
Gearbox
Testing Capper

Labour Resource
Demand (Man-hours)

Resource Chart: Figure 4

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References

1. Management for Engineers, Scientists and Technologists Author: Payne, Andrew C;

Chelsom John V, Lawrence R.P. Edition: 2nd Edition

2. Moubray, J. 1997. Reliability-Centred Maintenance, RCM2. Second Edition. New York:

Industrial Press Inc.

3. https://www.mobility-work.com/blog/rcm-successfully-implement

4. https://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue73/relbasics73.htm