An investigation into the benefits obtained by introducing Reliability Centred Maintenance in industrial organisations

dc.contributor.advisorCoetzee, Jasper L.
dc.contributor.emailsaul.machingauta@gmail.comen_ZA
dc.contributor.postgraduateMachingauta, Saul
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-21T09:40:30Z
dc.date.available2020-02-21T09:40:30Z
dc.date.created2020-04-14
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionDissertation (MSc (Mechanical Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2019.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractReliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) is a well-known maintenance process developed in the aviation industry. It has yielded great success and hence was adapted to be used in more industrial environments, such as the process developed Coetzee (2015) called ProaktivTM and the process developed by Moubray (1997) called RCM2. The RCM process is considered by many to be a very effective and comprehensive maintenance process that can, if implemented correctly, improve reliability and plant availability substantially. However, many maintenance practitioners and maintenance experts who have used RCM believe that it is an overcomplicated process that is difficult to implement. In many cases the process is abandoned and left incomplete due to the amount of resources required and the slow results it delivers initially. This dissertation investigates the benefits of implementing RCM on a mineral sizer at Sierra Rutile in Sierra Leone. In that regard, key performance indicators (KPI) of the sizer were recorded before and after the implementation of RCM. The main KPIs taken into consideration were: • Availability • Overall equipment effectiveness • Hazard rate • Productivity • Mean time to failure (MTTF) • Cost of maintenance per ton This research centres mainly on the maintenance strategy improvement plans derived from the RCM process and the improvements to the production process that resulted from that exercise.en_ZA
dc.description.availabilityUnrestricteden_ZA
dc.description.degreeMSc (Mechanical Engineering)en_ZA
dc.description.departmentMechanical and Aeronautical Engineeringen_ZA
dc.identifier.citation*en_ZA
dc.identifier.otherA2020en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/73471
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoria
dc.rights© 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.
dc.subjectReliability Centred Maintenanceen_ZA
dc.subjectReliabilityen_ZA
dc.subjectAvailabilityen_ZA
dc.subjectFunctional failuresen_ZA
dc.subjectFailure modesen_ZA
dc.subjectUCTD
dc.titleAn investigation into the benefits obtained by introducing Reliability Centred Maintenance in industrial organisationsen_ZA
dc.typeDissertationen_ZA

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