CMMS Based Reliability Centered Maintenance

With the coming competition and deregulation from marketplace, electric utilities are beginning to pay much more attention on maintenance because it makes great sense in reducing operative costs and improving competitiveness of today´s utilities. For the mature power system, reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) is increasingly considered for application among different maintenance strategies and has been applied with considerable success for more than 20 years. Whether RCM analysis can be carried out successfully depends on the quality and accuracy of the data on which the analysis is based. This paper proposes that computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) can be employed to provide this original data for the analyses of RCM for it is impossible to manually deal with the complexity coming from different automation fields, such as technical, economy, management etc. The paper also provides guidance for ensuring that the equipment data and history residing in a CMMS are complete and accurate