RCM3: Risk-Based Reliability Centered Maintenance

The popular RCMII methodology has been around since the late 1990s, but it was what professionals call an impact-based approach. This work is a revision of that best-selling work, by John Moubray, with more modern thinking, an emphasis on a risk-based methodology and alignment with international ISO standards (55000 and 31000). The result is a more holistic, integrated and rigorous way of developing asset care and risk mitigation strategies for physical assets.

Since the release of the ISO 31000 and ISO 55000 standards, Aladon has developed RCM3, a risk-based RCM methodology that places physical asset risk and reliability management in the mainstream of an organisation's other business management systems. RCM3 fully meets and exceeds the requirements of the SAEJA 1011 standard and is fully aligned with the frameworks of ISO standards.

The new risk-based focus of RCM3 includes the following principles:

• Proactively managing unbearable physical and economic risks.
• An updated approach to testing and managing security systems.
• Based on the requirements of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) and the challenges it brings.
• It includes new expectations and new maintenance techniques for the fourth generation.
• Places where reliability and risk management are mainstream with organisational objectives and management systems.
• Aligned and integrated with the international ISO standards for physical asset and risk management (ISO 55000 & ISO 31000).
• Now part of an integrated asset strategy for complete life cycle management of physical assets.