Cover (RCM3™: Risk-Based Reliability Centered Maintenance); Front Matter; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1; RCM3 Background; About This Book; Chapter 2; Introduction to RCM; 2. 1 The changing World of Maintenance; Safety and Reliability Are Directly Related; The First-Generation Maintenance; The Second-Generation Maintenance; The Third-Generation Maintenance; The Fourth-Generation Maintenance; New Expectations and Reality; New Techniques; New Developments; The Challenges Facing Maintenance; 2. 2 Maintenance and RCM; 2. 3 RCM3: The Eight Questions Operating ContextFunctions and Performance Standards; Failed States (Functional Failures); Failure Mode; Failure Effects and Consequence Severity; Inherent Risk; Risk Management; Proactive Risk Management Strategies; Default Actions for Tolerable Risk Decisions; The RCM Strategy Selection Process; 2. 4 Applying the RCM Process; 2. 5 The RCM Risk Mitigation Strategy Selection Process; Asset Criticality and Asset Prioritization (ACAP) Process; What ACAP Should Deliver; 2. 6 Asset Registry and Verification; Asset Verification Process; What Asset Verification Should Deliver; RCM Planning Setting Clear Performance Standards and How These Will be MeasuredReview Groups; Facilitators; The Outcomes of an RCM3 Analysis; Auditing and Implementation; 2. 7 What RCM Achieves; 2. 8 International Standards; Chapter 3; Operating Context; 3. 1 Documenting the Operating Context; Chapter 4; Functions; 4. 1 Describing Functions; 4. 2 Performance Standards; Multiple Performance Standards; Quantitative Performance Standards; Qualitative Standards; Absolute Performance Standards; Variable Performance Standards; upper and Lower Limits; 4. 3 Different Types of Functions; Primary Functions Secondary Functions4. 4 How Functions Should Be Listed; Chapter 5; Failed States; 5. 1 Failures; 5. 2 Failed States (Functional Failures); Performance Standards and Failure; Who Should Set the Standard? ; How Failed States Should Be recorded; Chapter 6; Failure Modes and Effects Analysis; 6. 1 What Is a Failure Mode? ; 6. 2 Why Analyze Failure Modes; 6. 3 Categories of Failure Modes; Falling Capability; increase in Desired Performance (or increase in Applied Stress); initial incapability; 6. 4 How Much Detail; Causation; Failure Causes-Root Cause of Failure; Failure Mechanisms Normal Deterioration MechanismsOther Mechanisms; Identifying the Root Cause; Latent Causes; Behavior-Based Safety; Probability; Consequences; What Is Meant by Reasonably Likely? ; Cause Versus effect; Failure Modes and the Operating Context; 6. 5 Failure Effects and Consequence Severity; 6. 6 Sources of Information about Failure Modes and Effects; The Manufacturer or Vendor of the Equipment; Generic Lists of Failure Modes; Other Users of the Same Equipment; The People Who Operate and Maintain the Equipment; Resnikoff Conundrum; 6. 7 Levels of the Analysis and the Information Worksheet