Kullawong Tadpon , Butdee Suthep
Abstract
This paper describes the application of reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) methodology and cost engineering to develop maintenance & cost management for Logistics Equipment in Factory of High Pressure Hydraulic Hose. The main objective of reliability-centered maintenance and cost optimization is the effective maintenance & cost management of the components of a machine inherent reliability value. Consequently, this research aims to manage the costs necessary to extend the service life of a machine through the use of probabilistic methods and simulation techniques in order to better identify the importance of every component in a machine with respect to maintenance costs. As a result of this research, our costing model allows to develop a methodology to determine maintenance costs which must be applied to some subsets of the elements of a machine, grouped according to their criticality and to identify the gap of costs between the true solution and the optimal maintenance interval.
Keywords- RCM, Maintenance, Cost Engineering