It's All About Completing the Cycle

As part of the RCM Blitz Boot Camp this week in Charleston, South Carolina we spend part of the first morning discussing the goals of a good Reliability Centered Maintenance Analysis. I always find it interesting that when you ask someone about the goals of their RCM program they discuss the assets they want to perform an analysis on, how they want their people to learn the value of a failure modes based maintenance strategy, and how they want RCM to become part of their business culture. The best way to fulfill all of these goals is to understand and complete the full RCM cycle. For those who have never been exposed the complete RCM cycle it starts with performing reliability measures on critical assets, we then select an asset for analysis, prepare for the analysis, complete the analysis, implement the tasks, perform the tasks and confirm the return on investment by continuing to perform the reliability measures we began with.

The best way to make Reliability Centered Maintenance a part of your business culture is to fully complete the analysis cycle and prove the success of each analysis! Should you fail to recognize and complete any part of this cycle your effort is likely to fail.

The most successful RCM efforts focus on completing each step in the RCM cycle and I am proud to say that by informing our customers that RCM Blitz means more than just a RCM analysis we have helped to build some of the most successful efforts in the world!

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