Support for Traditional RCM Logic
Analysis Plans
The Analysis Plan utility keeps track of team members, ground rules and assumptions, scheduled work sessions and other details that will help you plan and manage your analysis projects. RCM++ provides a high-level overview of all pending analysis projects and also makes it easy to generate reports for individual project plans.
Equipment Selection
In order to focus resources where they can provide the greatest benefit, RCM++'s Risk Discovery Analysis feature provides a choice of two configurable methods to determine which equipment will be analyzed with RCM techniques.
One method prompts you to answer a series of yes/no questions, while the other allows you to assign ratings for a variety of different factors and then calculates an overall criticality value for each item
Functional Block Diagrams (Boundary Diagrams)
A functional block diagram can define the scope of a particular analysis project and also provides information about interactions, inputs and outputs that may help the team identify potential failure modes. If you don't have existing diagram files that you wish to attach to the project, RCM++ provides a Functional Block Diagram utility that allows you to build these diagrams and store them together with your RCM and FMEA analyses.
Three Complementary Views of the Functional Failure Analysis
The Analysis panel makes it easy to switch back and forth between three complementary views of the functional failure analysis information so you can choose the display that is best suited for your current activity.
- The FMEA Hierarchy displays a lot of information in a small amount of space. Now in Version 5, tasks, actions and controls are displayed directly within the hierarchical tree.
- The Worksheet View allows you to type directly in the worksheet cells and tab through the analysis as you would in a spreadsheet application such as Microsoft Excel.
- The Filtered View allows you to generate sortable lists of records of a particular type. For example, you may wish to see maintenance task records sorted by type, assigned interval, duration or cost.
Failure Effect Categorization and Maintenance Task Selection
RCM++ supports the failure effect categorization (FEC) and maintenance task selection logic charts in the major industry RCM standards. You also have the option to customize the questions, categories and task types to fit your own specific analysis procedures.
These configurable logic diagrams can help guide the analysis team to discuss the consequences of potential failure modes and consider the maintenance strategy that will be most applicable and effective.
