Which Maintenance Philosophy Includes Root Cause Failure Analysis?

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

Answer: (A)

Reliability Centered Maintenance centers on understanding how and why failures happen so you can prevent them from recurring. A key part of this approach is root cause analysis of failures, where you ask why the failure occurred, identify the underlying factors or root causes, and choose corrective actions that address those causes—often redesigns, changes in procedures, or updated maintenance tasks to stop recurrence. This focus on eliminating the fundamental reason for a failure sets RCMA apart from other strategies that mainly schedule work or rely on observed conditions or predictions. Preventive Maintenance.scheduler things by time, not by why something failed. Condition-Based Maintenance uses the current state or condition of equipment to trigger work, not necessarily digging into root causes. Predictive Maintenance forecasts when a failure will happen based on data, again without requiring a root-cause investigation as a standard step. So, the approach that explicitly includes root cause failure analysis as part of its process is Reliability Centered Maintenance.