Various studies have indicated
that for many large systems or pieces of equipment,
Maintenance and Operation account for as much
as 45 to 60% of their overall Life Cycle Costs,
and some times much more. Reliability
Centred Maintenance (RCM) is a Process
used to determine the maintenance requirement
of any physical asset in its operating context.
Objectives of RCM
Maintenance
strategy optimization
Extension of equipment life
span
Elimination of Chronic machine
problem
Root Cause Analysis
No preventive maintenance tasks
to be performed – unless
it can be justified
RCM
is well used in conjunction with the
maintainability tools like FMEA (Failure
Mode Effect Analysis), (FTA) Fault
Tree Analysis and FMECA (Failure Mode
Effect Criticality Analysis).
