''...the best RCM software we could find...''
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If you are undertaking any RCM project, large or small, then you need RCM Desktop.
A facilitator’s workload is big enough without them having to record their RCM analyses on fudged spreadsheets, home-grown databases or word processor documents.
Such in-house solutions often suffer from a number of problems:
- They rarely do more than gather basic information
- There are no mechanisms to maintain correct relationships between the individual elements (such as functions, functional failures and failure modes) as they are created, deleted, copied or moved
- Each new analysis requires the creation of additional documents, with little or no guarantee that they will remain consistent with previous ones
- Version control is nearly impossible with multiple copies of the same document in circulation
- Big variation in data formats between different facilitators/typists and even between different analyses from the same facilitator
- Difficult to export data consistently to other systems, such as your CMMS
- Often no relationship between assets and RCM analyses
- Reports are difficult to collate and are often poorly presented
- There are rarely any tools for assisting with worth-doing and failure-finding interval calculations
- Keeping track of an RCM project becomes more of a headache as the project gets bigger
- The facilitator is distracted from the job of producing a high-quality RCM analysis due to having to deal with all the above
- Etc, etc.
RCM Desktop solves all these problems
- Every possible detail has a place in the RCM database
- Data integrity is handled automatically
- All data is held in a single database which is easily backed up in seconds
- A consistent data format is enforced by the database
- Data can be exported easily and consistently in a variety of formats
- Analyses can be linked to assets
- Professional-looking reports are easily produced
- Built-in tools to help with difficult calculations
- Managing a large project is simplified
- The facilitator is free to concentrate on facilitating.