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Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) is a data-driven process of identifying the most critical assets and finding the most cost-effective maintenance strategies for them.
Follow these seven steps to maximize the useful life of your most valuable assets.
What you’ll discover...
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How to identify reliability risks
Focus on your most critical assets and associated risks.
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How to define asset failure
What constitutes failure for each type of asset?
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How to identify the cause of failure
It helps to have inspection data at your fingertips.
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How to choose your maintenance strategy
There's a time for preventive and predictive maintenance.
"Reliability-centered maintenance gives facilities managers and maintenance professionals the information to take the most effective action, based on data."
Don Barry,
President and principal consultant, Asset Acumen Consulting
Reduce costs with a proactive strategy
Every dollar of deferred maintenance costs can eventually add up to as much as $4 in related failures and replacements, according to a study by Allegion.
The same research also found the cost of deferred maintenance could be as much as 30 times the cost of early intervention.