Reliability programme
RCM III: Deep Dive Into Criticality Analysis
Prioritise assets and maintenance decisions using a structured assessment of failure risk, consequence and business impact.
Programme overview
Focus reliability effort where it matters most.
Criticality analysis helps organisations distinguish the assets and failure modes that deserve the greatest attention. Done well, it creates a shared, risk-based basis for maintenance strategy, spare-parts decisions, work prioritisation and improvement investment.
This programme takes participants through the RCM III criticality process—from defining asset scope and consequences to building, validating and applying a scoring model that teams can defend and use.
Learning outcomes
What participants will be able to do.
Define an asset hierarchy and a practical scope for criticality analysis.
Identify failure modes, consequences and business impacts.
Develop consistent criticality criteria, matrices and scoring rules.
Translate results into maintenance, spares and work priorities.
Programme outline
Topics covered.
RCM and criticality foundations
Risk-based reliability, the purpose of criticality and where analysis creates value.
Asset hierarchy and data
System boundaries, functional context, data quality and selecting the right level of analysis.
Failure modes and consequences
Operational, safety, environmental, quality and financial effects of failure.
Criticality matrices and scoring
Likelihood, consequence criteria, weighting, calibration and avoiding scoring bias.
Validation and application
Facilitated review, sensitivity checks, governance and converting results into action.
Who should attend
For professionals responsible for asset performance.
Suitable for technical teams that make reliability, maintenance and risk-based asset decisions.
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