RCM analysis and facilitation
Reliability Centered Maintenance, done with your team, structured around the seven questions in SAE JA1011.
RCM analysis and facilitation is for plants that want Reliability Centered Maintenance on a critical system and do not have a dedicated reliability department to run it. The work is done with your team. The aim is a defensible task list — on-condition, scheduled restoration or replacement, failure-finding, or a conscious run-to-failure decision — not a binder that sits on a shelf.
What we do together
We start with system selection and boundaries, then walk the seven questions in SAE JA1011: what the system must do, how it can fail to do it, the failure modes, their effects, and the consequences (hidden, safety, environmental, operational, or non-operational). Task selection follows from those consequences. SAE JA1012 is treated as a guide to the criteria, not as a certification mark.
If you already have a stalled analysis, the same structure is used to review what is solid, what is missing, and what it will take to finish.
What you leave with
- Operating context and function list, in language operators recognize
- Failure modes and effects, recorded with the people who run and maintain the equipment
- A consequence-based task list, with intervals stated as assumptions where evidence is thin
- A short leadership brief so the work can be explained outside the maintenance office
To get the program funded, pair the task list with a reliability business case or start with the RCM ROI calculator. For a first look at the method, use the RCM Analysis Workbook and the worked boiler-feed-pump example.
Scoped per job. No retainers, no mystery.
- A conversation, freeYou describe the asset, the pain, and what “fixed” looks like. You get an honest answer on whether the work is a fit and what it takes.
- A scoped proposalDeliverables, timeline, and price in writing before anything starts. You approve the scope, not a blank check.
- The work, with your teamSessions and analysis done alongside your people, so the method stays in the building when the engagement ends.
- Deliverables you can act onA task list, a business case, or an investigation report — in your format, ready to use.
Work can be purchased by purchase order or invoice. A W-9 is available on request. Use the PO / invoice form, or email inquiry@apexreng.com.
Everything you share stays yours. Plant data, failure history, drawings, and production numbers are never disclosed without your express written permission.
Questions that usually come up
How is an RCM analysis structured?
Sessions and worksheets are structured around the seven questions in SAE JA1011: functions, functional failures, failure modes, effects, consequences, preventive tasks, and default actions when a scheduled task is not justified. SAE JA1012 is used as a guide to those criteria. The work is not described as “JA1011-certified.”
Do you facilitate, or just leave a report?
The default is facilitation with your operators, crafts, and engineers, so the method stays in the building. A review or rescue of a stalled analysis is also available.
How is the work priced?
On-site work is $1,200 per day plus travel at cost. Remote facilitation and reviews are scoped in writing. A fixed fee is agreed before work starts.