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Reliability Centered Maintenance: get off to a quick start from IBM MAS!

What maintenance is needed to prevent the failure of a critical asset? With Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), you first conduct research before taking an asset into maintenance. With that knowledge, you determine your maintenance strategy. RCM can now be smarter and faster. From IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS), you can get off to a flying start with RCM and continuously refine your maintenance strategies.

29 September 2023 • 11 min read
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Reliability Centered Maintenance helps you increase the reliability of your critical assets but can be laborious. For example, RCM research takes up valuable time from your maintenance experts. In addition, the development of maintenance strategies in many organizations often happens once, with a tool that is separate from the maintenance management system. While it is essential to continuously feed back findings from your maintenance practice and adjust your maintenance strategies accordingly. How does IBM MAS help you apply RCM more easily and effectively?

EAM, APM and RCM in a closed loop

IBM MAS already offered extensive possibilities for Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Asset Performance Management (APM). Now, functionality for Reliability Centered Maintenance has been added. This means that for the first time, you can find everything you need to optimize the maintenance, performance and reliability of your assets in one unique software solution. By combining RCM within IBM MAS with EAM and APM, you realize the closed loop that is so important for continuously improving your maintenance strategies. For example, if a pump breaks down more often than expected, a feedback to the maintenance strategy is possible within the system, so that it can be revised. Continuously optimizing your maintenance strategies helps you prevent future failures.

More than 800 ready-made RCM strategies

With IBM MAS, you don’t have to start from scratch when setting up your RCM strategies. You will receive a library with ready-made maintenance strategies, based on 25 years of RCM research. The library includes strategies for more than 800 different types of assets. For each asset, it is worked out what the vulnerable points are: where can they fail, what kind of damage can be caused by degradation and what measures are needed. The RCM strategies also take into account your industry and the environment in which assets are used. This way you can get started with your RCM super fast and save your maintenance specialists a lot of work and time.

Transparent and traceable maintenance processes

Another major advantage of RCM with IBM MAS is the transparency of your maintenance processes. You have accurately recorded which maintenance decisions you have taken, why those choices were made and what maintenance has been done to an asset, when and by whom. Everything that happens in terms of maintenance is therefore traceable from start to finish. This means you are well prepared for internal and external audits and you can easily account for your actions with well-substantiated reports.

Would you like to discuss your asset management challenges?

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Want to know more?

Would you like to know more about the possibilities of Reliability Centered Maintenance in IBM Maximo Application Suite? Please contact Wouter Schouten: +31 (0)6-52 68 37 43 or w.schouten@gemba.nl.

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