Resources

Resources, worked examples, and method notes

A complete worked RCM analysis, illustrative deliverable formats, and short articles you can use on the job.

Examples

See the shape of the work.

Worked analysis

RCM analysis of a boiler feed pump train (BFP-2)

A complete worked RCM analysis on a representative system. Synthetic example using illustrative data. Not from any client or employer.

Deliverable formats

Sample risk list and payback summary

Illustrative excerpts of the formats used in an assessment and a business case, marked as generic example data.

Calculator

RCM ROI and risk calculator

Run expected annual loss, avoided loss, payback and NPV on your own inputs. Free, in the browser.

Method

How the risk math is built

Frequency, severity, credibility weighting, Pareto, reduction, and finance metrics, with limitations.

Articles

Short, practical pieces on the methods.

RCM

What is RCM? The seven questions in SAE JA1011

RCM

RCM vs. PM optimization: when to use which

RCM

Your first RCM analysis without a reliability department

FMEA

FMEA vs. FMECA: what changes when you add criticality

FMEA

Centrifugal pump failure modes, and how to start an FMEA

PM

How to audit a PM program: a 20-point checklist

PdM

The P-F interval: what it is and how to use it

RCA

Root cause failure analysis, step by step

RCA

Bad actors and the jack-knife diagram

Funding

Downtime cost per hour, for maintenance managers

Funding

Expected loss for maintenance managers

Life data

Weibull in Excel: when it helps and when it misleads

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