ABSTRACT
It has been ascertained by researchers and consultants [1] that most organizations in the maintenance and reliability eld have very weak preventive (PM) and predictive (PdM) maintenance programs that contain ambiguous and needless tasks at unnecessary frequencies. What makes this so shocking is that plant facilities send out their craftspeople to work thousands and thousands of hours each year, performing what should be the plant’s most important work, armed with ineffective and inefcient PM tasks and standards. This trend will have to change with the application of integrated reliability condition monitoring and maintenance (IRCMM) with the technological inheritance (TI) model-based program since it helps select costeffective maintenance strategies and manufacturing process conditions, predict maximum achievable reliability and minimum acceptable reliability, and detect failures throughout the life cycle of components and systems. It is used to measure component and system reliability, reliability growth and degradation, CM, condition-and time-based maintenance, as well as maintenance costs. It can also be used to integrate reliability, CM, and maintenance with a single TI coefcient metric under a single model-based program for task assessments and evaluations.
