This course provides a thorough understanding of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) as a strategic approach to optimizing asset performance and maintenance management. Participants will learn to apply RCM principles to identify failure modes, assess risks, and determine the most effective maintenance strategies to improve equipment reliability, safety, and operational efficiency.
RCM helps organizations achieve maximum productivity and asset utilization while minimizing costs, downtime, and unexpected failures.
- Maintenance Managers & Engineers
- Reliability & Operations Engineers
- HSE and Asset Management Professionals
- Plant, Project, and Production Supervisors
To enable participants to understand and apply Reliability Centered Maintenance methodologies to enhance asset performance, ensure safety, and optimize maintenance practices in various industries.
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Understand core RCM principles
- Perform functional failure analysis
- Develop and implement maintenance strategies
- Align RCM with ISO 55000 & asset management
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- Introduction to RCM
- What is RCM?
- History and evolution
- Maintenance strategy comparison
- Benefits and industry examples
- Functional Failures & Risk
- System function & FMEA
- Failure modes & consequences
- Risk assessment
- Workshop: Analyze real asset functions
- Maintenance Strategy Selection
- 7 RCM questions
- Maintenance task types
- RCM logic flow
- Group application exercise
- Implementation & Asset Integration
- Planning an RCM program
- Forming the RCM team
- Aligning with ISO 55000
- Lifecycle costing & continuous improvement
- Application and Closing
- RCM software & CMMS
- Real-world case studies (Oil & Gas, Power, etc.)
- Mini RCM group project
- Final review & participant presentations
