How to build a Preventive Maintenance program for long-term success

Perhaps one of the most important factors when building a PM program is the realization that not all failures are created equal. Discover how reliability centered maintenance (RCM) set the stage to revolutionize the field of maintenance and reliability.

RCM is a strategy by which each maintenance task is driven by a specific failure mode and is based on the impact of failure and type of failure mode. Learn why the ability to clearly define and understand failure modes, as a part of a RCM process, is crucial to developing an effective preventive maintenance strategy.

Often an organization has a mature reliability program, which makes it difficult to understand where to start incorporating RCM concepts. However, it’s critical that every PM program regardless of type or age should regularly be evaluated to keep your system healthy. At the very least, every year you should be evaluating whether the tasks on your PM program are adding value, if there is a new PdM technology (or existing) that can be applied instead, or if the task should be incorporated into a lubrication/operator round?