Course Description
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is the internationally recognised methodology for determining the optimum maintenance strategy for any physical asset in its operating context. This course applies best practices in answering the seven questions of RCM using a real-life, case-study approach, aligned with the SAE JA1011 and JA1012 standards.
Participants learn the complete RCM process — from function definition and functional failure through Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) to consequence evaluation and task selection. The course covers how RCM manages safety, environmental, operational, and cost consequences while optimising resources, following the internationally recognised SAE JA1011/JA1012 framework.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Understand RCM principles, methodology, and the SAE JA1011 standard
- Answer the seven questions of RCM
- Define functions and functional failures in operating context
- Perform Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) within RCM
- Evaluate failure consequences: safety, environmental, operational, non-operational
- Select appropriate proactive and default maintenance tasks
- Deploy protective and warning devices within an RCM framework
- Implement and manage an RCM program
How the course is delivered
The course uses a real-life, case-study approach to work through the seven questions of RCM, with hands-on FMEA and task-selection exercises. Participants apply the methodology to realistic equipment scenarios.
Content is aligned with SAE JA1011/JA1012 and reflects established RCM best practice, balancing rigour with practical implementation.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Reliability and maintenance engineers
- RCM facilitators and team members
- Maintenance planners and managers
- Asset managers and plant engineers
- Anyone developing maintenance strategy
Daily programme
- What RCM really is and its history
- The seven questions of RCM
- The SAE JA1011/JA1012 standards
- Operating context and functions
- Defining functions and performance standards
- Functional failures
- Failure modes
- Failure effects
- Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
- Safety and environmental consequences
- Operational and non-operational consequences
- Hidden failures and protective devices
- Proactive tasks: condition-based, restoration, discard
- Default actions: failure-finding, redesign, run-to-failure
- The RCM decision logic
- Risk-based decision making
- Planning and facilitating RCM analyses
- Implementing RCM recommendations
- Living RCM program management
- Case study workshop and review
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
