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# Fast-track RCM

Developed by GGR to be the preferred plant performance improvement process for most industrial situations. GGR's Fast-track RCM uses the same rigorous logic as Classical RCM but a different approach for identifying all the significant failure modes. It also includes a criticality assessment of each failure mode.

### Fault categories have been designed to ensure that all significant failure modes get categorised and listed for each section of plant.

The principal steps in Fast-track RCM are:

##### Sections

 Divide the plant into sections suitable for analysis.

##### Failure modes and performance issues

 What can go wrong under seven fault categories - and what would be the causes.

##### Consequences

 Identify one of five types of consequence for each failure mode.

##### Criticality

 Assess the probability and severity of failure against simple user-defined scales.

##### Actions

 Use Fast-track RCM Decision Logic to determine what preventive maintenance or other actions are recommended to improve plant performance.

### Fast-track RCM includes important features from other improvement methodologies:

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#### From TPM (Total Productive Maintenance)

Recognition of the importance of cleaning and lubrication; incorporation of the 'six major losses of production' in the Fast-track RCM fault categories.

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#### From FMECA (Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis)

Assignment of a criticality rating to assist in determining appropriate failure prevention actions.

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#### From SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Dies)

Recognition that a high proportion of production losses occur at changeovers or start-ups.

### In spite of including these enhancements to Classical RCM, Fast-track RCM has proved to be much easier and quicker to apply.

#### Key features:

- Speed and ease of use
- Rigorous task selection logic
- Essential documentation of every step maintained
- Criticality assessment to aid decision-making
- Tackles broad range of performance inhibitors

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