Desarrollo de un plan de mantenimiento aplicando la metodología de mantenimiento basado en la confiabilidad (RCM) para el vehículo Hidrocleaner Vactor M654 de la empresa Etapa EP

Abstract

The present research work takes a maintenance plan development as an object by applying the methodology Reliability - Based Maintenance (RCM) for the critical equipment of a vehicle of the fleet of Hidrocleaners of the municipal company ETAPA E.P. in Cuenca city, for which a criticality analysis is performed to determine critical equipment to which the methodology RCM is applied. Having determined the critical equipments, it was possible to proceed to an analysis of failure modes and effects (FMEA); for which it is necessary to define the main and secondary functions; its failure modes, effects and potential fault causes. All this has been done in order to determine the maintenance plan to avoid potential failures, the plan consists of maintenance activities, frequencies and required experts. After applying the resultant plan a reduction was obtained of: 45% failure rate, 58% hours of stop and 80% in costs for maintenance and renting a truck hidrocleaner substitute. It is recommended to implement the RCM methodology in the rest of the vehicle fleet of the company.