MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT 2

PERFORMING AN RCM ANALYSIS

Strict rules:
• Due date by email to robbin.gajadin@outlook.com: July 15- 2018
• Also hand in your report on paper at the presentation session

Other information:
• Start date: June 24 - 2018

• Expected time needed: 16 hours

Introduction
The object of analysis is an excavator used for gold mining operations by a large-scale mining company,
GOLDENBOYZ N.V. The excavator is a HITACHI EX 135 model. The management team of GOLDENBOYZ
wants to keep their excavator in excellent performance and realizes the severity and high costs of
unplanned downtime.

Questions
A. Perform a Reliability Centered Maintenance analysis to establish a maintenance and inspection
program and identify redesign opportunities. The RCM/FMEA procedure proposed in the booklet
for RCM (NASA RCM guide) must be followed and all steps must be described and motivated. The
outcome of your analysis should be usable by the mechanics of the mining company.
 Try to use the NDE and CM methods described during the lectures where possible.

B. Reflect on your approach and outcomes of the RCM analysis you carried out:
 Describe how you executed the RCM/FMEA process (use of theory), which decisions did you made
during the RCM/FMEA process and where are they based on?
 To what extend did you adapt or change the NASA RCM format or procedures? (please motivate
why you made changes)
 Did you choose for a rigorous or intuitive RCM/FMEA process? Give arguments for your decision.
 What (additional) information sources did you use and to what extent could you use them?
 To what extent are there uncertainties in your current analysis? And to what extend are there
possibilities for further improvements? (FMEA and maintenance schedule)

Tips

 For those of you unfamiliar with excavators and their operations, read sufficiently into their
working mechanisms. Travel motors, cylinders, pumps, diesel motors and other critical
 components must be identified and investigated (of course not within too much detail, as you’ll
then surpass the expected amount of time needed estimate fairly quickly).
 If you need more information or details which are not provided, make assumptions and
communicate them in the report. The RCM/FMEA does not describe how the maintenance
activities resulting from the FMEA should be presented in a standardized way. You can include
them in a separate table. But you can also try to include this in the RCM/FMEA table.

Notes
• Refer to some relevant academic literature, next to the literature that I have supplied you, in a
meaningful and correct way.
• Although I will focus mainly on the content, do think about the lay out and structure of your
report, and ensure that you do not make spelling and grammar errors.