While templates can potentially speed up RCM analysis, they require great care and caution if used. Templates often lack necessary context about the operating environment and failure modes may need to be rewritten. It may actually take more time to review and rewrite templated data than starting from scratch. Therefore, templates should only be used if led by an experienced RCM specialist and should not replace engaging directly with equipment experts, who provide invaluable insight into vulnerabilities and solutions.

1. Nancy Regan
Should you use templates
Should you use templates
to speed up your RCM
to speed up your RCM
analysis?
analysis?

2. Great care
Great care must be
must be
taken if any kind of
taken if any kind of
template or Failure
template or Failure
Mode library is used
Mode library is used
to complete an RCM
to complete an RCM
analysis.
analysis.
2/10

3. Oftentimes, the
template does not
include an
explanation of the
equipment operating
context on which the
data is based.
3/10

4. For example, an RCM
analysis on an
industrial air
compressor used in
two different
operating contexts
can vary significantly.
4/10

5. Failure Modes included
in Failure Mode
libraries are often
written at a very low
level so considerable
time is required to
determine if any are
applicable.
5/10

6. Sometimes you end
up spending more
time reviewing and
rewriting the data
than you would have
spent if you had
simply started from
scratch.
6/10

7. Therefore, using any
kind of templated data
should be
approached with
caution, and then only
if an experienced RCM
specialist leads the
effort.
7/10

8. But most importantly,
relying on templates
excludes our most
valuable asset...
8/10

9. 9/10
Equipment experts are the
untapped gold in any
organization.
They know where the
vulnerabilities lay, and they
know what to do about them.
Don't waste this vital
resource.

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