RELIABILITY CENTERED MAINTENANCE (RCM): RESEACH ACTION IMPLEMENTATION IN A FACTORY OF TYRES

Abstract

The current economic context is characterized by high competitiveness, low profitability and consumer demand. This is what can be termed globalization, competition, where the survival of companies largely depends on the flexibility of their structures, sustainability and synergy of their processes and lean and effective management of their business. This paper aims to present an Action Research on the methodology of implementation of Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) in a production line of a mixture of black tire plant located in Southeastern Brazil. Effective The effective and disciplinary application of this methodology allowed a manufacturing procedural mapping with the identification of 1015 failure modes and analysis of 937 maintenance tasks with an overall improvement rate of existing Maintenance Plan in 57.2%, and consequently, the sustainable results in an organizational setting that requires consistent and continuous rates of plant availability and reduced costs of production. Keywords: reliability; mapping process; maintenance.