About the webinar:
This webinar explored how Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) can be applied more efficiently by optimising the use of time and resources—without losing control over risk. The session focused on how maintenance and reliability teams can make informed, risk-based decisions on preventive maintenance, avoiding the extremes of over-maintenance that wastes resources and under-maintenance that increases operational and safety risk.
Cenosco IMS RCM was presented as a practical maintenance and reliability tool that supports the development of individual maintenance strategies based on failure behaviour and risk. While traditional Failure Mode & Effects Analysis within RCM is often seen as time-consuming and resource-intensive, the webinar demonstrated how results can be achieved faster by selectively skipping certain RCM questions and leveraging maintenance strategy libraries within the IMS RCM system. Additional simplification was shown to be possible by applying predefined basic maintenance tasks for specific equipment types.
The session also addressed the trade-offs of using fewer resources. Over-simplification can lead to unnecessary maintenance activities, increased costs, inefficient use of field resources, and even reliability issues caused by maintenance-induced failures. Attendees gained insight into how to strike the right balance and understand when a full RCM approach is required versus when a minimum maintenance strategy is sufficient.
Presented by Harry van Teijlingen, Senior Domain Expert in Reliability Centered Maintenance at Cenosco, the webinar combined deep domain expertise with practical industry experience. The Cenosco IMS RCM system’s capability to manage both full RCM analyses and minimum maintenance task approaches was demonstrated, showing how organisations can flexibly align maintenance strategies with their operational and business objectives.