ABSTRACT
Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) is a systematic process to determine what must be done to keep assets doing what operators need them to do in their current operational context. RCM is recognized as one of the most powerful tools a company can use to obtain more value from its physical assets. It is the cornerstone of highly successful maintenance programs to ensure that machines help operations to deliver as required, yielding or exceeding the anticipated financial outcome required by stakeholders. RCM is a process that is also capable of delivering many other benefits as well as just improving reliability. Most organizations realize that maintenance is a far more important aspect of their business than most stakeholders may have imagined. Asset management, maintenance management, RCM, condition-based maintenance root cause failure analysis, spare parts optimization, and key performance indicators monitoring are all needed to be a top performer.
