An effective maintenance plan ensures that your place of business will be able to function

efficiently and meet customer demands. A very effective method is Reliability-Centered

Maintenance or RCM.

RCM identifies the functions of a system, equipment or an asset, which could be critical and then

seeks to optimize their maintenance strategies.

There are minimum criteria before any maintenance strategy can be referred to as "RCM".

The illustration below identifies these 7 steps: