Reliability Centered Maintenance: the EDF's Experience

Conference · Mon Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2002

OSTI ID:21167896

Huyart, Thierry ^[1]; Degrave, Claude; Dubreuil-Chambardel, Alain ^[2]

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1. Electricite de France, EDF-DPN-FTC, 1 place Pleyel 93282 Saint-Denis Cedex (France)
2. Electricite de France, EDF-SEPTEN, 12-14 avenue Dutrievoz 69628 Villeurbanne Cedex (France)

In order to ensure safest possible operation and to get best overall economic performance of its Nuclear Power Plants, 10 years ago Electricite de France launched a Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) project (the so-called OMF Methodology in French) to optimize the preventive maintenance programs, while keeping safety at the right level required. The principles underlying the RCM approach are based on common sense: failures must be prevented by preventive maintenance operations in all cases when the repercussions for the installation could be serious or critical in term of safety, availability or maintenance costs. The new preventive maintenance programs are presently almost completed and progressively implemented. Here and now, the implementation of the RCM approach allows to emphasize some benefits in the fields of costs, safety availability and maintenance culture. (authors)

• Research Organization: American Nuclear Society, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
• OSTI ID: 21167896
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING
AVAILABILITY
COST
ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE
FAILURES
IMPLEMENTATION
INSTALLATION
MAINTENANCE
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
OPERATION
PERFORMANCE
RELIABILITY
SAFETY