Nancy Regan advises that a criticality analysis is not required to identify RCM candidates when first starting out with RCM. The best assets to analyze initially are those already known to be causing issues like chronic downtime, high costs, or maintenance needs in order to quickly prove the value of RCM. Showing stakeholders meaningful results from addressing high problem equipment will gain support to analyze additional systems through repeated RCM cycles.

1. Nancy Regan
Is a Criticality Analysis
Is a Criticality Analysis
required
required to identify
to identify
RCM candidates?
RCM candidates?

2. Nope!
Nope!
2/10

3. When you're just
starting out, the best
assets to analyze
using RCM are those
that are causing you
the most "pain."
3/10

4. In other words,
choose equipment
that has chronic
downtime, high
operating costs, or
high maintenance
manhours, for
example.
4/10

5. The key is to start
with systems that
offer the biggest
opportunity to
produce
meaningful results.
Why?
5/10

6. So you can prove
the strength of RCM
to stakeholders.
That's how you'll get
more money and
more support to do
more RCM analyses.
6/10

7. I'm willing to bet that
you can name at
least three systems
right now that are
causing you the
most problems.
Start with those!
7/10

8. You don't have to
spend valuable
resources performing
a system-level
criticality analysis to
tell you what you
already know.
8/10

9. Choose RCM
candidates wisely.
Do RCM properly.
Show great results.
Implement them.
Rinse and repeat.
9/10

10. Thank you for
reading!
Nancy Regan
10/10