RCM Expert System

Overview

The RCM expert system is an “off-the-shelf” configuration in NEXUS IC that facilitates efficient deployment and management of a company’s Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) strategies.

The RCM expert system provides the following:

  • An RCM library that categorises assets based on subclasses and provides Failure Mode Effect and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) functions.

  • You can link this RCM library to your asset register and get recommended failure modes and maintenance tasks.

  • You can easily customise and extend the library based on your specific requirements.

  • You can generate an output ready to be uploaded to CMMS systems.

Benefits

The RCM expert system offers the following benefits:

  • Streamlines RCM data entry and management, reducing manual effort

  • Enhances data quality and reliability by minimizing errors

  • Facilitates the setup of efficient, standardised maintenance strategies

  • Ensures consistency with RCM industry standards

Workflow

For information about how the RCM process works using the NEXUS RCM expert system, see RCM Workflow.

Content

The following figure shows the elements that are delivered with the RCM expert system. For more information, click on the nodes of the figure below or see RCM Expert System Content.

RCM Expert System
Asset
Information
Functions
Shortcuts
Client-Specific
Lists
Asset Types

Codes/Standards

  • SAE JA1012 (“A Guide to the Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) Standard”)

  • SAE JA1011 (“Evaluation Criteria for RCM Processes”)

  • ISO 14224:2016 - Petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries — Collection and exchange of reliability and maintenance data for equipment

  • CFIHOS - Capital Facilities Information Handover Specification

  • ISO 8000-100 - Data quality - Part 100: Master data: Exchange of characteristic data: Overview

Deployment Prerequisites

The following configuration is not automatically deployed as part of the “out-of-the box” expert system and needs to be configured manually:

  • Client corporate logos (used in header/footers in reports)

  • Report styles (corporate fonts and colours used in reports)

  • Client risk matrix (corporate risk matrix)

  • Security groups (Wood can recommend typical security groups if required)

Revision History

This is the first major release of the expert system.