Reliability Centered Maintenance for Critical Assets

Critical assets cannot be maintained effectively by applying the same preventive routines to every component or by increasing maintenance frequency whenever reliability becomes a concern. Some failures can be predicted, others require scheduled intervention, while certain failure modes may not justify preventive action at all. The real challenge is determining what each critical asset must do, how it can fail, what happens when it fails, and which maintenance response provides meaningful protection.
 

Boost Consulting & Training offers this course to develop a practical application of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) for critical assets. The program guides participants through asset selection, functional analysis, functional failures, failure modes and effects, consequence evaluation, maintenance task selection, and implementation. Rather than treating RCM as a theoretical methodology, participants apply its decision logic to realistic equipment situations and challenge existing maintenance tasks against actual failure behavior.
 

The main concept of this course is to build maintenance requirements from the functions, failure modes, and consequences of critical assets rather than from generic maintenance routines.

• Explain the principles and decision logic of Reliability Centered Maintenance.
• Select appropriate critical assets for focused RCM analysis.
• Define asset functions and required performance standards.
• Identify functional failures and credible failure modes.
• Evaluate the operational consequences and significance of equipment failures.
• Select technically appropriate maintenance tasks for different failure modes.
• Determine when redesign, failure-finding, or controlled run-to-failure is more appropriate than scheduled maintenance.
• Convert RCM analysis into practical maintenance requirements and improvement actions.