# Reliability-Centred Maintenance

> Use RCM and failure analysis to choose the right maintenance for each asset, improving reliability and cutting cost.

- **Provider:** Afriskora Training Solutions
- **Category:** Engineering & Maintenance
- **Duration:** 5 days
- **Formats:** classroom (cities across Africa), live virtual (Zoom/Teams), in-house for teams
- **Certificate:** Afriskora Certificate of Completion, verifiable online
- **Booking:** request dates and a quote; invoice and EFT payment
- **Web page:** https://afriskora.co.za/courses/engineering-maintenance/reliability-centred-maintenance
- **Request dates:** https://afriskora.co.za/request-training?course=reliability-centred-maintenance

## Overview

Too much maintenance wastes money while too little causes breakdowns. Reliability-centred maintenance is a structured way to decide what each asset needs, based on its functions, failure modes and consequences. This course teaches RCM analysis, FMEA, condition monitoring options, root cause failure analysis and reliability metrics, with a facilitated RCM study on a real system.

## Who should attend

- Reliability and maintenance engineers
- Maintenance managers
- Asset managers
- Senior technicians

## Learning outcomes

- Apply the RCM decision process
- Conduct FMEA on critical systems
- Select condition-based, time-based and run-to-failure strategies
- Perform root cause failure analysis
- Measure reliability with MTBF, availability and other metrics

## Course outline

### Day 1: Reliability fundamentals

- Failure patterns
- Reliability metrics
- Asset criticality
- RCM history and standards

### Day 2: RCM analysis

- Functions and functional failures
- Failure modes and effects
- Consequence evaluation
- RCM decision logic

### Day 3: Maintenance tasks

- Condition monitoring techniques
- Vibration, thermography and oil analysis
- Time-based tasks
- Redesign and run-to-failure

### Day 4: Failure analysis

- Root cause failure analysis
- Weibull basics
- Bad actor management
- Learning from failures

### Day 5: Implementation

- RCM study facilitation
- Implementing tasks in CMMS
- Living RCM
- Study presentations