Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM)
Use functions, functional failures, failure modes and consequences to choose maintenance tasks conceptually.
Maintenance & Reliability Strategy
RCM, preventive/predictive maintenance, prioritization, backlog, bad actors and obsolescence.
Preventive vs Predictive Maintenance
Time-based tasks and condition-based tasks solve different maintenance problems.
Maintenance Strategy
How corrective, preventive, predictive and redesign choices form an asset care plan.
Maintenance Work Prioritization
Rank integrity-related work using consequence, urgency, operability and resource constraints.
Maintenance Backlog
Age, risk, labor demand and readiness of deferred work.
Shutdown and Turnaround Integrity Work
How major outages create access for inspections and repairs that cannot be completed online.
Defect Elimination
Remove recurring causes of equipment problems rather than repeatedly restoring symptoms.
Root Cause Analysis
Structured investigation of significant failures without reducing every event to operator error.
Bad Actor Equipment
Identify assets that repeatedly consume downtime, maintenance labor or integrity attention.
Critical Spare Parts
How failure consequence and replenishment lead time shape spare strategy.
Asset Obsolescence
Manage equipment that still works but is becoming difficult to support safely and reliably.