Reliability Centered Maintenance Combines Which Techniques And Includes Root Cause Failure Analysis?

• A. Reliability Centered Maintenance
• B. Condition-Based Predictive Maintenance
• C. Statistical-Based Predictive Maintenance
• D. Preventive Maintenance

Answer: (A)

Reliability Centered Maintenance is the approach that brings together multiple maintenance techniques and always includes root cause failure analysis. It’s a decision framework that looks at what a system must do, identifies potential failure modes and their effects, and then determines the most effective maintenance tasks to prevent functional loss. In practice, it blends preventive maintenance (time-based), predictive or condition-based maintenance (monitored by data), and other proactive actions, guided by root cause analysis to address the underlying reasons for failures. The other options describe individual maintenance methods rather than the integrated framework that combines them all and explicitly incorporates root cause analysis.