A major Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) for aerospace and defense companies houses a library of over 5,700 component maintenance manuals that require consistent revisions. The revisions are based on fleet issue data and engineering developments. This library currently supports various in-service aircraft.

One of the critical business requirements for the project is to ensure that the manuals reach the air fleet promptly. It is worth noting that timely maintenance of aircraft is vital for defense capabilities and flight safety. Additionally, The contract for the maintenance of the library stipulates a 104-day service level agreement for the work and imposes financial penalties if the work is not completed within the agreed timeframe. Multiple suppliers both domestic and offshore, previously attempted to work the effort and have failed. The contractors missed the milestones, quality suffered, and the end customers were not happy. That’s where the OEM bought RCM Technology onboard.

The Challenge 

RCM quickly identified why previous suppliers failed.  With so many different milestones and various inputs required, the manuals were always in a constant cycle of starts and stops. This led to many of the updates getting lost in the revision life cycle.   Once a single milestone was late, it caused others to be rushed in order to try and meet the original schedule.

The RCM Solution

The RCM Aerospace & Defense team swiftly identified and allocated the right resources and developed a new project execution plan.  We productionized the effort. This method allowed our resources to focus on specific areas of the overall revision lifecycle.  These areas consisted of an initial authoring team, customer and engineering contact coordinators, quality and metrics lead, final production team, and two overall project coordinators.  We applied automation for all QA forms and status reporting.  Custom triggers enabled us to ensure that nothing fell through the cracks.  RCM is pleased to say that through these initiatives we were able to reduce the turnaround time for each revision by 52% compared to the contractual requirement that was previously often exceeded.  Quality also drastically improved.  The aerospace and defense companies that the OEM supports were very pleased.

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The Challenge: RCM was challenged to fulfill the requirement of providing the OEM with ~20,000 BREX compliant S1000D Data Modules within a constrained schedule for a new development program, while the OEM continued to engineer and test the platform.

The Solution: RCM performed the majority of S1000D required granularity maintenance planning needed to author all the procedures in XML, whilst creating interactive, hot-spot graphics to accompany the procedure. RCM was pleased to have met all schedule and budget requirements throughout the 5-year effort and continues to provide in-service support requirements.

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A major aircraft OEM that had received a several billion-dollar contract to design a new, all composite, military aircraft approached RCM for manpower and management support. The OEM did not have the resources available to execute the contract because of other competing programs.

The OEM contracted RCM to perform the majority of the Airframe Basic Data and Preliminary Design / Structural Analysis phase of the contract. Marketplace resource availability was constrained because the Statement of Work (SOW) required an all-composite airframe to be designed using Composites Part Design (CPD), a virtually new software.

Additionally, all designers and analysts needed familiarity with the new concept of working within a Digital Mock-Up (DMU). To the delight of the customer, RCM ultimately (and quickly) staffed approximately 65 engineers to successfully complete the contract. RCM complemented their existing staff by recruiting approximately 40 engineers of all levels of experience. RCM proudly completed the project on schedule and within budget.

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The agreement with American Electric Power (AEP) involved the full design and construction of the important new Esperanza Substation that consists of a 138kV three (3) breaker ring bus and two (2) 28.8 MVAR capacitor banks in Matagorda County, Texas.
Through use of Integrated Design and Construction technology, RCM Engineering’s Energy Services team successfully designed and constructed the 138kV Substation in eleven (11) months to support AEP’s mission in powering their clients.

According to Jim Nivens, Project Manager for transmission projects at AEP, RCM was able to meet the utility’s desire for a turnkey solution, including scope and a finished project. AEP has been an important client of RCM’s and has involved RCM in numerous projects.
The recently completed project also included the design and installation of approximately 0.75 mile
of double-circuit 138kV line which interconnected the new Esperanza Substation to the existing
Blessing – Celanese 138kV Transmission Line. The new Esperanza Substation will interconnect
50MW of load from a local industrial user.

Frank Petraglia, President of RCM Engineering, commented “I am proud of the Energy Services team in their continued focus to provide innovative, safe solutions to support our client’s success in business through our integrated design and construction tools and processes. Our approach to these large projects helps our customers meet their aggressive goals on time and on budget while preventing or mitigating most issues through construction.”

About RCM

RCM Technologies, Inc. is a premier provider of business and technology solutions designed to enhance and maximize the operational performance of its customers through the adaptation and deployment of advanced information technology and engineering services. RCM is an innovative leader in the delivery of these solutions to commercial and government sectors. RCM is also a provider of specialty healthcare services to major health care institutions and educational facilities.
RCM’s offices are located in major metropolitan centers throughout North America and Serbia.

Additional information can be found at www.rcmt.com.

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This unique process produced a clean fuel oil, fuel gas, fertilizer, and biochar. Thermal efficiency exceeded 85% of the heating value of the feed stock recovered as fuel products utilizing municipal waste, sludge, and plastics as the feed.

The Challenge: The broad range of feed sent to the plant required a robust design of front-end material handling equipment and a means to transfer this feed to very high pressure reactors with heat recovery to enable the required thermal efficiency.    Ensuring that the changes to the feed could be managed on the back-end recovery processes without recovery capacity reductions was another project focus.

The Solution: Thermal Kinetics’ engineers were involved in process development and design discussions from project infancy to completion.  As a member of the design team at the earliest stage it allowed TK to implement process changes during this ‘process development’ stage.  In this stage the bench-scale testing under Thermal Kinetics’ guidance provided the full range of parameters that the full-scale pilot plant would need to be able to operate. The Thermal Kinetics systems operated as designed and provided SYNPET with a plant that can manage the variability of Feed and consequently the variability of Products.  SYNPET now is taking this capability to the next stages of business development to solve municipal waste management challenges in a fully environmentally friendly approach.

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In order to provide grid independent, environmentally-friendly power, to reduce utility costs and increase reliability RCM Engineering has partnered with this manufacturer to provide Engineering and Design services for the installation of multiple fuel cells at various sites and facilities. This manufacturer and supplier of the fuel cell plant uses natural gas in a non-combusting chemical reformation process to provide combined heat and power applications intended for grid independent operation, and grid connection distributed generation applications.

RCM has been tasked with the design services to generate site specific construction drawings, interconnection applications, permitting documentation, and development of functional performance test plans for various site locations ranging from single fuel cell installations to multi-megawatt power stations. The designs incorporate utilizing the fuel cell export power for utility side interconnection, providing the client with KW account credits, as well as capturing the fuel cell waste heat output for offsetting facility HVAC and domestic water thermal loads.

Our value add included:

• Paralleling switchgear design to interconnect fuel cell power with existing utility service
• Advising the client with State and Local Incentive Funding Parameters for project cost savings

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A new Drop In Control Module (DICM) has been installed consisting of a 16’ x 36’ base with a 16’ x 24’ expansion unit. New cable trench design has been required to accommodate new wiring for complete station into new DICM control building.

This project included engineering and design for civil, electrical physical layout, grounding and lightning protection systems. Civil design included design of equipment support steel framing and concrete.

An integrated design approach incorporating the use of a 3D model of the station has been utilized to collaborate with our client. Included in this approach is the creation of a 4D model which incorporates the 3D model of the station with the construction schedule as well as the creation of safety animations and work sequence animations.

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This project included engineering and design for civil, electrical physical layout, grounding and lightning protection systems. Civil design included design of equipment steel and foundations.

Electrical design included replacement of existing 345KV, 138KV and 69KV oil filled circuit breakers for new gas insulated circuit breakers and associated switches. Completion of civil and foundation design for the installation of a new Drop-In-Control Module to house all the new 138KV and 69KV control panels. Also effort entailed completing the bus analysis for added 345KV bus structures to relocate the new 345KV breaker to a new position in the 345KV yard. RCM provided engineering support during construction by responding to RFIs and other construction inquiries. The project was achieved by following an integrated design approach utilizing a 3D model from the outset of the project. 4D modeling had been developed and followed during the construction phase. 4D helped in construction planning, and subsequently during the construction phase as a progress reporting tool. Safety animations and slides were created to support the overall construction effort.

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