What is the reliability maintenance?

Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) is a corporate-level maintenance strategy that is implemented to optimize the maintenance program of a company or facility. The final result of an RCM program is the implementation of a specific maintenance strategy on each of the assets of the facility. The maintenance strategies are optimized so that the productivity of the plant is maintained using cost-effective maintenance techniques.

There are four principles that are critical for an reliability centered maintenance program.

1. The primary objective is to preserve system function
2. Identify failure modes that can affect the system function
3. Prioritize the failure modes
4. Select applicable and effective tasks to control the failure modes

it is a maintenance type which can be achieved by :

What is the item supposed to do and its associated performance standards?

2. In what ways can it fail to provide the required functions?

3. What are the events that cause each failure?

4. What happens when each failure occurs?

5. In what way does each failure matter?

6. What systematic task can be performed proactively to prevent, or to diminish to a satisfactory degree, the consequences of the failure?

7. What must be done if a suitable preventive task cannot be found?

Reactive maintenance  "breakdown maintenance" are repairs done when equipment has already broken down . It focuses on restoring the equipment to its normal operating condition by replacing and (or) repairing faulty parts and components. most reports which bother the management are , consolidated reports . narrative report , fuel consumption report , maintenance report , traffic reports(km readings) , locationper vechiles report . drivers report and logistic report