Reliability-Centered Maintenance
Consultancy

Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) Strategy

A structured maintenance strategy designed to increase productivity while optimizing maintenance costs.

Reliability-Centered Maintenance analysis involves a step-by-step process to match individual assets with ideal maintenance strategies.

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Purpose

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To identify the most appropriate maintenance practices for different pieces of equipment to optimize reliability, productivity, and costs.

 

9 Principles of Reliability-Centered Maintenance

1. Failures must be accepted.

2. Most failures are not a result of aging.

3. Some failures have a greater impact than others.

4. Parts wear as equipment breaks down.

5. You must identify hidden failures.

6. The same equipment may not require the same maintenance.

7. Maintenance only preserves the inherent design reliability and performance of equipment.

8. Effective maintenance programs should not lead to wasted resources.

9. Good maintenance programs evolve and improve over time.

 

7 Questions for Reliability-Centered Maintenance

1. Equipment's primary function and performance standards

2. What are the possibilities of failure?

3. What are the causes of failure?

4. What happens when a failure occurs?

5. What are the effects of the failure on the system?

6. How can you prevent or minimize the effect of the failure?

7. What measures should you take if the failure cannot be prevented?

 

Relationship to Preventive Maintenance