RCM Facilitator Course

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Module 1: Read this before starting
- Terms and Conditions
Module 2: The Art of Facilitation ~ What Makes an Effective Facilitator?
- 2.1: Introduction to RCM Facilitation
- 2.2: Our Most Valuable Resource is…
- 2.3: Facilitator Position Description
- 2.4: Assignment: Assess Yourself
Module 3: The Art of Facilitation ~ The RCM Analysis Planning Process [ 2-3 Hours to Complete ]
- 3.1: Download RCM Analysis Planning Process pdf
- 3.2: Introduction to RCM Analysis Planning
- 3.3: [Step 1] Select/Identify the Equipment for Analysis
- 3.4: [Step 2] Facilitator Research and Data Gathering
- 3.5: [Step 3] Establish the Scope of Analysis
- 3.6: [Step 4] Identify Analysis Goals and Objectives
- 3.7: [Step 5] Identify Working Group and Validation Team Members
- 3.8: [Step 6] Plan for Training, Analysis, and Validation Meeting
- 3.9: [Step 7] Identify Obstacles that Could Hinder Successful Implementation and Formulate Solutions
- 3.10: [Step 8] Notify Working Group and Validation Team Members
- 3.11: [Step 9] Gather/Reserve Facilitation Materials and Technical Documentation
- 3.12: [Step 10] Prepare Draft Operating Context
- 3.13: Real-World Planning Example
- 3.14: RCM Analysis Planning Process Assignment
Module 4: The Art of Facilitation ~ Facilitation Techniques [ 2-3 Hours to Complete ]
- 4.1: Download Facilitation Techniques pdf
- 4.2: The Meeting Room
- 4.3: Setting the Scene ~ Day 1
- 4.4: Setting the Scene ~ Every Day
- 4.5: Getting Ready to Facilitate
- 4.6: General Facilitation Techniques
- 4.7: In-Session Facilitation Techniques
- 4.8: Managing Working Group Members
- 4.9: Manage Time Properly
- 4.10: Facilitation Techniques Assignment
Module 5: The RCM Operating Context [ 1.5 Hours to Complete ]
- 5.1: Download the RCM Operating Context Information Sheet pdf
- 5.2: Prepare Draft Operating Context: Last Step in the RCM Planning Process
- 5.3: What the Operating Context IS and How to Draft It
- 5.4: What the Operating Context DOES
- 5.5: Operating Context Quiz
Module 6: Sequence of Conducting an RCM Analysis [ 15 Minutes to Complete ]
- 6.1: Download the Sequence of Conducting an RCM Analysis pdf
- 6.2: Sequence of Conducting an RCM Analysis
- 6.3: Sequence of Conducting an RCM Analysis Quiz
Module 7: Functions [ 2.25 Hours to Complete ]
- 7.0: Download the Functions pdf
- 7.1: Introduction to Functions
- 7.2: The Significance of Writing Functions
- 7.3: Design Capability versus Required Performance, a Review
- 7.4: Primary and Secondary Functions, a Review
- 7.5: Evident & Hidden Functions and Multiple Failures
- 7.6: Protective Devices
- 7.7: How to Write Primary and Secondary Functions, a Review
- 7.8: Facilitating Performance Standards and Operating Context
- 7.9: Techniques for Facilitating Secondary Functions
- 7.10: How to Determine if a Function Should be Recorded
- 7.11: What Something IS Versus What Something DOES
- 7.12: Gauges/Indicators and Performance Standards
- 7.13: Reverse-Engineering Operating Context Concerns
- 7.14: Bookkeeping Functions
- 7.15: Notes on Writing Functions
- 7.16: Functions Quiz
- 7.17: Functions Quiz Graded by Nancy
Module 8: Functional Failures [ 45 Minutes to Complete ]
- 8.1: Functional Failures, a Review
- 8.2: Introduction to Facilitating Functional Failures
- 8.3: Facilitating Primary Functional Failures
- 8.4: Facilitating Evident Secondary Functions
- 8.5: Facilitating Secondary Hidden Functional Failures (Protective Devices)
- 8.6: Functional Failure Quiz Graded by Nancy
Module 9: Failure Modes [ 3.0 Hours to Complete ]
- 9.0: Download the Failure Modes pdf
- 9.1: Welcome to Failure Modes!
- 9.2: The “Golden Question” to Ask Working Group Members
- 9.3: What Kinds of Failure Modes to Include in an RCM Analysis
- 9.4: Writing Failure Modes Properly with the Right Amount of Detail
- 9.5: Writing Failure Modes at the Right Level
- 9.6: Knowing When to Record a Failure Mode in an RCM Analysis
- 9.7: Bookkeeping Failure Modes in an RCM Analysis
- 9.8: Techniques for Facilitating Failure Modes with a Working Group
- 9.9: Handling Tricky Situations when Facilitating Failure Modes
- 9.10: Subaru Forester Low Oil Circuit
- 9.11: Failure Modes Quiz [ To be completed by Thursday, September 19, 2019 ]
- 9.12: Failure Modes Quiz [To be completed by Thursday, September 19, 2019 ] (Quiz will be graded by Nancy)
- 9.13: September 11, 2019 Replay of Live Training Session
Module 10: Failure Effects [ 2.0 Hours to Complete ]
- 10.0: Download the Failure Effects pdf
- 10.1: Failure Effects and How to Facilitate Them
- 10.2: Common Scenarios that Require Facilitation
- 10.3: Failure Effect Quick Tips
- 10.4: Failure Effects Quiz 1: Automatically graded [ To be completed by Monday, Sept 30, 2019 ]
- 10.5: Failure Effects Quiz 2: To be graded by Nancy [ To be completed by Monday, Sept 30, 2019 ]
Module 11: Failure Consequences [ Taught Live Online, Sept 30, 2019 ]
- 11.0: Download the Failure Consequences pdf
- 11.1: 9/30/19 Replay of Live Course on Consequences
- 11.1: Failure Consequences Quiz (to be graded by Nancy)
Module 13: Preventive Maintenance [ 2 hours to complete ]
- 13.0: Please Note a Change to the RCM Decision Diagram
- 13.1: Preventive Maintenance
- 13.2: Preventive Maintenance Quiz [ Please allow at least 1 to 1.5 hours to complete ]
Module 12: Task Hierarchies and the RCM Decision Diagram
- 12.1: Task Hierarchies
10/31/19 Team Meeting: Questions to Review and Prepare for 10/31/19 Team Meeting
- 14.0: Download pdf: Questions to Review and Prepare for 10/31/19 Team Meeting
- 14.1: Replay of Live Lesson 10/31/19
Module 14: On-Condition Maintenance
- 14.00: Introduction
- 14.01: Review: On-Condition Maintenance
- 14.02: Review: Gauges/Indicators and Performance Standards
- 14.03: On-Condition Maintenance Quiz
- 14.1: Review On-Condition Maintenance with your team
- 14.2: At least as long as…
- 14.3: Multiple Potential Failure Conditions
- 14.4: More than one “Failure”
- 14.5: Reviewing the P-F Interval Prior to Facilitating
- 14.6: Download Quiz Questions (Word Document)
- 14.7: Upload Word doc that has your completed quiz questions.
Module 15: Default Strategies
- 15.1: Live Session Conducted on November 18, 2019
Module 16: The Validation Process
- 16.1: Live Session Conducted on November 26, 2019
Module 17: Final Exam
- Final Exam Process
- 17.2: Final Exam [ Allow 1.5 to 2.0 hours to complete ]
Module 18: Failure Finding
- 18.1: Failure Finding pdf Download [ Plan 1.0 – 1.5 hours to read the material. ]
- 18.2: Failure Finding Quiz [ Plan 1.0 – 2.0 hours for the quiz. ]
- 18.3: Replay of Failure Finding Live Lesson December 11th, 2019
- 18.4: Replay of Failure Finding Quiz December 19th, 2019
- 18.5: Replay of Failure Finding with Mark Horton
Module 19: Replay of Live Final Exam Review
- 19.1: Replay of Final Exam Review Live Lesson December 19th, 2019
Course Calendars
- May 2019 Calendar
- June 2019 Calendar
- July 2019 Calendar
- August 2019 Calendar
- October 2019 Calendar
- 2019 Team Meeting Calendar
Resources
- YouTube Video: American Airlines Crash of Flight 191
- Facilitator Course Terms and Conditions

Welcome to the RCM Facilitator course. In this course, we will learn how to competently and efficiently facilitate RCM analyses.

Please refer to Module 1 below to read and agree to the “Terms and Conditions” of this course. To view a more user-friendly copy, refer to the “Facilitator Course Terms and Conditions” section under the “Resources” module within the course content.

To stay updated with dates for team meetings and assignments, check the “Course Calendars” module in the course content.

For any questions, please use the Contact Form on this page.

Thank you!
Nancy Regan

Course Information

Categories: Beginner, Featured

Course Instructor

Nancy Regan Author

Module 1: Read this before starting

Terms and Conditions

Module 2: The Art of Facilitation ~ What Makes an Effective Facilitator?

2.1: Introduction to RCM Facilitation

2.2: Our Most Valuable Resource is…

2.3: Facilitator Position Description

2.4: Assignment: Assess Yourself

Module 3: The Art of Facilitation ~ The RCM Analysis Planning Process [ 2-3 Hours to Complete ]

3.1: Download RCM Analysis Planning Process pdf

3.2: Introduction to RCM Analysis Planning

3.3: [Step 1] Select/Identify the Equipment for Analysis

3.4: [Step 2] Facilitator Research and Data Gathering

3.5: [Step 3] Establish the Scope of Analysis

3.6: [Step 4] Identify Analysis Goals and Objectives

3.7: [Step 5] Identify Working Group and Validation Team Members

3.8: [Step 6] Plan for Training, Analysis, and Validation Meeting

3.9: [Step 7] Identify Obstacles that Could Hinder Successful Implementation and Formulate Solutions

3.10: [Step 8] Notify Working Group and Validation Team Members

3.11: [Step 9] Gather/Reserve Facilitation Materials and Technical Documentation

3.12: [Step 10] Prepare Draft Operating Context

3.13: Real-World Planning Example

3.14: RCM Analysis Planning Process Assignment

Module 4: The Art of Facilitation ~ Facilitation Techniques [ 2-3 Hours to Complete ]

4.1: Download Facilitation Techniques pdf

4.2: The Meeting Room

4.3: Setting the Scene ~ Day 1

4.4: Setting the Scene ~ Every Day

4.5: Getting Ready to Facilitate

4.6: General Facilitation Techniques

4.7: In-Session Facilitation Techniques

4.8: Managing Working Group Members

4.9: Manage Time Properly

4.10: Facilitation Techniques Assignment

Module 5: The RCM Operating Context [ 1.5 Hours to Complete ]

5.1: Download the RCM Operating Context Information Sheet pdf

5.2: Prepare Draft Operating Context: Last Step in the RCM Planning Process

5.3: What the Operating Context IS and How to Draft It

5.4: What the Operating Context DOES

5.5: Operating Context Quiz

Module 6: Sequence of Conducting an RCM Analysis [ 15 Minutes to Complete ]

6.1: Download the Sequence of Conducting an RCM Analysis pdf

6.2: Sequence of Conducting an RCM Analysis

6.3: Sequence of Conducting an RCM Analysis Quiz

Module 7: Functions [ 2.25 Hours to Complete ]

7.0: Download the Functions pdf

7.1: Introduction to Functions

7.2: The Significance of Writing Functions

7.3: Design Capability versus Required Performance, a Review

7.4: Primary and Secondary Functions, a Review

7.5: Evident & Hidden Functions and Multiple Failures

7.6: Protective Devices

7.7: How to Write Primary and Secondary Functions, a Review

7.8: Facilitating Performance Standards and Operating Context

7.9: Techniques for Facilitating Secondary Functions

7.10: How to Determine if a Function Should be Recorded

7.11: What Something IS Versus What Something DOES

7.12: Gauges/Indicators and Performance Standards

7.13: Reverse-Engineering Operating Context Concerns

7.14: Bookkeeping Functions

7.15: Notes on Writing Functions

7.16: Functions Quiz

7.17: Functions Quiz Graded by Nancy

Module 8: Functional Failures [ 45 Minutes to Complete ]

8.1: Functional Failures, a Review

8.2: Introduction to Facilitating Functional Failures

8.3: Facilitating Primary Functional Failures

8.4: Facilitating Evident Secondary Functions

8.5: Facilitating Secondary Hidden Functional Failures (Protective Devices)

8.6: Functional Failure Quiz Graded by Nancy

Module 9: Failure Modes [ 3.0 Hours to Complete ]

9.0: Download the Failure Modes pdf

9.1: Welcome to Failure Modes!

9.2: The “Golden Question” to Ask Working Group Members

9.3: What Kinds of Failure Modes to Include in an RCM Analysis

9.4: Writing Failure Modes Properly with the Right Amount of Detail

9.5: Writing Failure Modes at the Right Level

9.6: Knowing When to Record a Failure Mode in an RCM Analysis

9.7: Bookkeeping Failure Modes in an RCM Analysis

9.8: Techniques for Facilitating Failure Modes with a Working Group

9.9: Handling Tricky Situations when Facilitating Failure Modes

9.10: Subaru Forester Low Oil Circuit

9.11: Failure Modes Quiz [ To be completed by Thursday, September 19, 2019 ]

9.12: Failure Modes Quiz [To be completed by Thursday, September 19, 2019 ] (Quiz will be graded by Nancy)

9.13: September 11, 2019 Replay of Live Training Session

Module 10: Failure Effects [ 2.0 Hours to Complete ]

10.0: Download the Failure Effects pdf

10.1: Failure Effects and How to Facilitate Them

10.2: Common Scenarios that Require Facilitation

10.3: Failure Effect Quick Tips

10.4: Failure Effects Quiz 1: Automatically graded [ To be completed by Monday, Sept 30, 2019 ]

10.5: Failure Effects Quiz 2: To be graded by Nancy [ To be completed by Monday, Sept 30, 2019 ]

Module 11: Failure Consequences [ Taught Live Online, Sept 30, 2019 ]

11.0: Download the Failure Consequences pdf

11.1: 9/30/19 Replay of Live Course on Consequences

11.1: Failure Consequences Quiz (to be graded by Nancy)

Module 13: Preventive Maintenance [ 2 hours to complete ]

13.0: Please Note a Change to the RCM Decision Diagram

13.1: Preventive Maintenance

13.2: Preventive Maintenance Quiz [ Please allow at least 1 to 1.5 hours to complete ]

Module 12: Task Hierarchies and the RCM Decision Diagram

12.1: Task Hierarchies

10/31/19 Team Meeting: Questions to Review and Prepare for 10/31/19 Team Meeting

14.0: Download pdf: Questions to Review and Prepare for 10/31/19 Team Meeting

14.1: Replay of Live Lesson 10/31/19

Module 14: On-Condition Maintenance

14.00: Introduction

14.01: Review: On-Condition Maintenance

14.02: Review: Gauges/Indicators and Performance Standards

14.03: On-Condition Maintenance Quiz

14.1: Review On-Condition Maintenance with your team

14.2: At least as long as…

14.3: Multiple Potential Failure Conditions

14.4: More than one “Failure”

14.5: Reviewing the P-F Interval Prior to Facilitating

14.6: Download Quiz Questions (Word Document)

14.7: Upload Word doc that has your completed quiz questions.

Module 15: Default Strategies

15.1: Live Session Conducted on November 18, 2019

Module 16: The Validation Process

16.1: Live Session Conducted on November 26, 2019

Module 17: Final Exam

Final Exam Process

17.2: Final Exam [ Allow 1.5 to 2.0 hours to complete ]

Module 18: Failure Finding

18.1: Failure Finding pdf Download [ Plan 1.0 – 1.5 hours to read the material. ]