Course Details

This course is appropriate for a wide range of professionals but not limited to:

• Maintenance and Reliability Engineers
• Maintenance Planners and Supervisor
• Operations and Production Engineers
• Asset Integrity, Mechanical, and Plant Engineers
• Engineering Managers and Technical Support Personnel
• Anyone involved in maintenance strategy development or reliability improvement

• Expert-led sessions with dynamic visual aids
• Comprehensive course manual to support practical application and reinforcement
• Interactive discussions addressing participants’ real-world projects and challenges
• Insightful case studies and proven best practices to enhance learning

By the end of this course, participants should be able to:

• Understand the principles and purpose of Reliability-Centered Maintenance
• Select systems and equipment for RCM analysis
• Identify equipment functions, functional failures, and failure modes
• Apply FMEA and RCM decision logic to determine optimal maintenance tasks
• Develop and implement effective RCM-based maintenance programs
• Evaluate RCM effectiveness and integrate it with asset management practices

DAY 1

RCM Principles, Analysis, and Strategy Selection

• RCM overview, history, and maintenance concepts
• Understanding failure, failure patterns, and the failure process
• The seven RCM questions and their application
• Functions, functional failures, failure modes, effects, and consequences
• Task selection and proactive maintenance approaches
• Types of maintenance and maintenance strategy selection
• Criticality assessment, risk matrix, and criticality prioritization
• FMEA/FMECA and RCM
• Selection and prioritizing using Pareto Analysis
• Systems selection, boundaries, operating context, and RCM Decision Logic Tree
   

DAY 2

RCM Analysis, Decision Logic, and Maintenance Task Selection

• Function block diagrams and RCM data collection and documentation
• Identifying functions, failure modes, failure effects, and failure consequences
• Hidden and evident failures
• Probability of multiple failures
• Failure Finding Task and Interval
• RCM Decision Logic Tree
• Failure Mitigation/Prevention
• Evaluating and Selecting an Effective Maintenance Task
• When to Redesign or Run-To-Fail
• Analysis Facilitation Techniques and Issues
   

DAY 3

RCM Implementation, Analysis Facilitation, and Modern Maintenance Strategies

• RCM implementation and impact
• Creating a case study of RCM Analysis
• Analysis Preparation
• Defining an Analysis Team
• Assessing Criticality
• Locating Operating Context
• Defining Systems, System Boundary, Functions, Failures, and Failure Modes
• Defining Failure Effects and Actions
• Evaluating the Case Study
• Modern approaches of RCM, CMMS and RCM Software, RCM is Evergreen Process, and RCM Assessment