ABSTRACT
The failure effects classification process clearly separates failures having only economic impact from those exposing the organization to failure to attain safety and environmental goals. Reliability Centered Maintenance-Reengineered (RCM-R®) classifies failure effects into categories based on evidence of the failure’s impact on safety, the environment, operational capability, and cost. RCM-R® helps practitioners to find the right consequence management task through the use of a decision algorithm diagram. The RCM-R® process will enable the analysis team to select appropriate failure consequence management policies that are both technically feasible and worth doing. It uses a consequence management decision diagram to select the most appropriate consequence management policy for every failure cause identified by the multidisciplinary analysis team. Thus, typical RCM decision diagrams require that we investigate whether any proactive task is technically feasible and worth doing to avoid the failure.
