Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Assessment

Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is a process standardized through the SAE JA 1011. The process is used to determine what must be done to ensure that any physical asset continues to do what its users want it to do in its present operating context.

SAP Asset Strategy and Performance Management supports asset-centric companies to apply this standard and allow partners & customers to enrich, extend, and configure the process - complying with different variations of the process like RCM2 or RCM-Light.

1. Launch the RCM Assessment application.

2. Choose New.

   Enter the following details in the Create Assessment dialog box:

   Field	Description
   Description (*)	Enter a short description for the assessment.
   Assessment Templates (*)	Select an RCM template. Only published templates are displayed.

3. Choose Save.

   The assessment object page is displayed.

4. You can choose Edit under Information  Scope, to enter a scope for the assessment. Choose Save.

5. Enter the mandatory or optional roles in the Roles section.

   This section is displayed only if any role is marked as mandatory/optional in the RCM template, else it is not displayed.

6. You can assign the following objects (based on the RCM assessment template selected) in the Assessment section by choosing Assign:

   • Equipment

   • Systems

   • Models

   • Locations

   You can also remove any assigned objects by selecting the objecting and choosing Remove in the relevant sections.

7. When you select an object, you can view and assign the following:

   1. You can view the following info:

      • Equipment Name

      • Class

      • Subclass

      • Manufacturer

      • Operational Context: If the object is in In Revision state, you can assign documents for the object assigned to the assessment by choosing Assign.

   2. You can assign/remove functions to the object in the Functions section.

      1. Choose Assign in the Functions section.

      2. Select the functions from the list. Choose Assign.

      Select a function to view further details of the function including functional failures.

   3. You can assign/remove functional failures to each function using Assign or Remove buttons in the Functional Failures section.

   4. You can assign failure modes to functional failures by selecting a functional failure and choosing Assign in the Failure Modes section.

   5. If you have set the Display Failure Modes and Causes together flag as Yes in the assessment template that is assigned to the assessment.

      1. Select a failure mode and you can assign or remove cause for the failure mode by choosing Manage Cause  Assign or Manage Cause  Remove.

      2. Choose a failure mode from the list to view details of the failure mode including associated cause, RAMS, and effects. You can assign effects to the failure mode in the Effects section.

      3. On the left-hand side of the page, each failure mode and cause combination are listed. For example, if a failure mode FM_1 has 2 causes assigned to it C1 and C2. The list includes two entries:

         • FM_1 + C1

         • FM_1 + C2

      4. You can assign the effects by choosing Assign in the Effects section.

   6. If you have set the Display Failure Modes and Causes together flag as No in the assessment template that is assigned to the assessment.

      1. Choose a failure mode from the list to view details of the failure mode including Causes, RAMS, and effects. The causes for the failure mode are displayed in the details section.

      2. You can assign the effects by choosing Assign in the Effects section.

   7. Choose an effect and you can view the details of the effects. You can view the Consequence Evaluation and enter your observations for the same.

      If you want to save your progress/answers in the Consequence Evaluation section without publishing the assessment, you can use the Save button.

   8. You can also assign/remove preventive or corrective instructions in the Preventive / Corrective Instructions section. You can assign instructions or placeholder instructions.

      If you have assigned instructions, you can edit the values for the instructions using Edit button.