Reliability-Centred Maintenance Basics

What you'll learn

• Explain why RCM starts from what an asset must do — its functions and performance standards — rather than from the asset itself
• Distinguish functional failures, failure modes and failure effects, and describe each at a useful level of detail
• Classify failure consequences as safety/environmental, operational, non-operational or hidden, and explain why the category drives the maintenance decision
• Apply the RCM task-selection logic: condition-based first, then time-based, then failure-finding, with redesign or run-to-failure as defaults
• Explain why hidden failures on protective devices need failure-finding tasks and how test intervals are set
• Run and sustain RCM as a living programme that learns from operating experience, not a one-off study

Curriculum

Progress through each competency level in order.