Condition Assessment (CA) and
Asset Life Extension Management (ALEM)
CA
& the problem” (maintenance cannot ensure functions and/or performance standards are met).
ALEM
Training and Services
• 2-3 Hour Executive Overview
• 1-Day Introductory Course
(Delegates must have attended
the RCM3 Introductory Course)
• 5-Day Advanced Training and
Mentoring for Facilitators
Who Should Attend?
• Reliability Engineers
• Supervisors
• Planners
• Technicians
• Operators
A trial copy of the ACES
software will be provided.
COCO NET
Ancaster, Ontario
Canada L9G 4T3
+1 (905) 536-0865
coconet-inc@cogeco.ca
www.aladon.com
Asset Condition Assessment (CA) provides asset owners with important information to optimize
the operation and maintenance of their assets. CA also provides valuable information to RCM
facilitators and team members to optimize RCM analyses (using real time data) and validate the
analysis recommendations. The CA may actually determine that an RCM analysis will not “fix
Asset replacement or refurbishment may be the best failure management strategy given certain
criteria. CA guides review groups to reach the best failure management strategy given the asset’s
condition at the time.
Aladon recommends that a condition assessment is performed on systems and
assets that have been in service for a long time, in some cases still operating
beyond its useful life (as specified by the manufacturers).
Aladon’s Condition Assessment methodology consists of two distinct processes,
the first being a qualitative assessment (through observation and interviews)
and secondly a quantitative assessment (through analysis - data driven). The
two processes could be done simultaneously (two groups) or subsequent of each
other or done individually as stand alone assessments.
The remaining life is “calculated” using the results from both processes. The two
processes could have equal weighting (assessment based on 50% input from each
process) or one process could “weigh” more based on the findings, availability and
quality of the data and accessibility to the assets.
Qualitative Assessment
The process of qualitative assessment entails the physical inspection of the asset.
The criteria used for the condition assessment vary depending on the type and
complexity of the asset. For each asset type, the assessment team (consisting
of cross disciplines) will develop a list of questions specific to the asset. The
assessment is performed using the criteria developed for the assessment, physical
checks, performance tests (if required), interviews and information from O&M.
Quantitative Assessment
The quantitative assessment deals with hard facts or evidence and typical
quantitative assessment criteria includes: age of the assets (install date), duty
cycles (operating cycles), loading, operating limits, number of trips and protective
devices activated within certain periods, operating standards (design parameters
and safety margins), maintenance records and compliance, major overhauls past
and future (if any), modification and upgrades (if any).
The reviewer will be able to determine and adjust the remaining life based
on the physical condition of the asset. The basis for the adjustment is the
2012 International Infrastructure Management Manual description of asset
condition criteria.
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Training and Services
• 2-3 Hour Executive Overview
• 1-Day Introductory Course
(Delegates must have attended
the RCM3 Introductory Course)
• 5-Day Advanced Training and
Mentoring for RBI Reliability
Engineers (this is not a
certification program)
Who Should Attend?
• Reliability Engineers
• Supervisors
• Planners
• Technicians
• RBI Inspectors
COCO NET
Ancaster, Ontario
Canada L9G 4T3
+1 (905) 536-0865
coconet-inc@cogeco.ca
www.aladon.com
Risk Based Inspection (RBI3TM)
RBI is a risk assessment and management tool that addresses an area of risk management
not completely addressed in other organizational risk management efforts such as
process hazards analyses (PHA), IOWs or Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM). The
RBI process is focused on maintaining the mechanical integrity of pressure equipment
items and minimizing the risk of loss of containment due to deterioration while the RCM
process is used to determine the maintenance requirements of any physical asset in its
operating context.
RBI3 is a “zero-base”approach for assisting reliability engineers to manage and
address risks related to unanticipated failures of static equipment, i.e. pipes, tanks,
valve bodies, pump and compressor housings and pressure vessels. RBI3 is fully
integrated with our other risk based approaches: Condition Assessment, RCM3
and RCFA. In simple terms, if you use one, you should use the other...
RBI is fully integrated with RCM3 and extends reliability thinking to include risk
based solutions for every asset in your organization. RBI3 places reliability and
asset integrity mainstream with organizations’ risk management systems and
policies. Furthermore, our methodologies underpin API 580 and the International
Standards for Physical Asset Management (ISO 55000), Risk Management
(ISO 31000), Life-cycle costing techniques (ISO 15663: Part 1) and Production-
assurance (ISO 20815).
The principal benefits of using Aladon’s approach are:
• Single integrated solution for all the assets on site
• Support international standards and regulations
• Increased reliability and asset integrity
• Improved compliance
• Lower risk of critical equipment not being covered by RCM or RBI
• Consistent approach - common language and common set of values
• Less time to analyze and assess equipment reliability and integrity
• No duplication or omission of critical assets
• Improved safety and environmental integrity
• Reduce costs of ownership
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When the detail design, procurement, installation and commissioning are complete,
organizations then realize whether or not their business objectives are met.
Throughout the design and project delivery process, the focus is “on time” and
RCD “on budget”. Whether or not actual business objectives are met is only measured
at the end of the project, sometimes after handover and startup. RCD considers
these objectives from the start and avoid costly modifications and change orders.

Our RCD methodology involves all the stakeholders that will be involved in the life of the
Recommended Participants:
asset or facility - owners, stakeholders, designers, process engineers, operations,
• Design engineers maintenance, vendors and equipment manufacturers. It does so by defining
• Operations the business objectives for the new facility or asset right at the start and ends
• Maintenance by simulating real life scenarios and optimization to ensure these objectives are
• Asset owners met (with highest reliability and lowest cost).
• OEMs
• Vendors The following steps are considered as part of our RCD process:
• Suppliers
• Define business objectives (safety, environmental, operational, quality, etc.)
• Create baseline design required to meet user requirements (done by others)

Schedule of Activities: • Define the operating context (create real life scenarios/operating conditions)

• RCD Overview & Training
• Define business objectives
• Engineering Design
• Drawing
• Operating Context
• FMECA (RCA)
• Modeling
• Simulation Optimization
• Identify critical assets and systems (defined by business objectives)
• Perform FMECA on critical assets
• Collect asset reliability data and information
• Build reliability model and simulate base line design (using real life scenario)
• Review and optimize through alternatives and revised strategies
• Simulate revised options (if required)
• Submit final recommendations (ensure objectives are met)

RCD Outcomes and Benefits:

Prerequisites:
• Reliability based design leading to improved safety & environmental responsibility
• 3 Day RCM2/3
Introductory Course • Facility/asset design meeting business objectives & stakeholder needs
• Improved inherent reliability & asset integrity
• Operating philosophy with matching failure management strategies

COCO NET • Reliability build up from the lowest level components

Ancaster, Ontario • Maintenance program at startup
Canada L9G 4T3
• Optimized safety and integrity with proper management of protective devices
+1 (905) 536-0865
coconet-inc@cogeco.ca • Lowest life-cycle cost for meeting business objectives (safety and production)
www.aladon.com • Streamlined process
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RCFA
Benefits
• Continuous improvement
and sustainability of reliability
program
• Reduced physical and
economical risks
• Increased reliability and
availability of your assets
• Alignment with international
standards i.e. ISO 55000
• Less repeat failures and
increased uptime
• Improved communication
• Knowledge retention and
management
RCFA Services & Training
• RCFA Executive Overview
• RCFA Introductory Course
• Aladon Facilitation
• RCFA Facilitator Certification
COCO NET
Ancaster, Ontario
Canada L9G 4T3
+1 (905) 536-0865
coconet-inc@cogeco.ca
www.aladon.com
Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)
Do you have assets or systems with repeat failures or failures which have serious
consequences affecting safety, the environment or operational capability? These must
be avoided (or prevented from happening again) to ensure the organizational goals are
met. Whether you are in the public or private sector, your assets/systems must perform
reliably so that you can deliver services or products to customers and citizens. RCFA
ensures continuous improvement of your reliability program through reviewing failures
that result in consequences which exceed the organization’s tolerable risk threshold.
The RCFA process can be applied pro-actively or reactively (after the failure
happened). We analyze asset history, identify the root causes of equipment failure,
and develop maintenance practices to prevent these failures from occurring
or reccurring. The RCFA process is fully integrated with the RCM process and
information (failure modes and effects) are transferable between worksheets. This
limits duplication and wasting of resources. It focuses on preserving the functions
your assets/systems perform rather than preserving the equipment itself. We
determine the right failure management strategies to ensure your assets/systems
function the way you want them to function-reliabily and efficiently.
RCFA will:
• Improve knowledge and understanding of important failures that should be
avoided, increasing asset reliability and reduce risk
• Improve the reliability program through providing the feedback loop for reviewing
failure modes and effects - update the RCM database
• Decrease safety and environmental risk stemming from equipment breakdowns
• Review and validate the maintenance program - failure modes and effects
• Improve knowledge management and retention - more people learn more about the
equipment and failures that matter
• Improve overall communication in your organization
• Increase asset performance and uptime
RCFA will do it in the following way:
• Depending on the failure consequence and risk threshold, RCFA could be applied
the following ways:
- An informal “qualitative” process for less critical failures - medium risk
- A formal “quantitative” process for critical failures - high risk
RCFA is fully integrated with the Aladon RCM processes to provide
continuous improvement and sustainability of your reliability program.
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RCM2™
Benefits
• Improved safety and
environmental integrity
• Reduced physical and
economic risks
• Increased reliability and
availability of your assets
• Alignment with international
standards i.e. ISO 55000
• Lower maintenance costs
• Improved communication
• Knowledge retention and
management
RCM2 Services & Training
• RCM2 Executive Overview
• RCM2 Introductory Course
• Advanced RCM2 Competency
Development for Facilitators
• Aladon Facilitator Cerification
• Consulting and Analysis
support
• Comprehensive RCM Software
Solutions
COCO NET
Ancaster, Ontario
Canada L9G 4T3
+1 (905) 536-0865
coconet-inc@cogeco.ca
www.aladon.com
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM2TM)
Do you have assets or systems prone to frequent breakdowns? Are equipement
failures in the way of you meeting your organization’s goals? Whether you’re in
the public or private sector, your assets/systems must perform reliably so that
you can deliver services or products to customers and citizens. Aladon and The
Aladon Network can help you secure this reliablity by developing and assisting
you in implementing a Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM2) program.
The Aladon Network uses the systematic and and robust RCM2 process to develop
and/or optimize your asset management efforts. Asset performance data and history
provide the information to identify the root causes of equipment failure, and allows the
RCM teams to develop failure management strategies to prevent these failures from
occurring. This consequence driven approach differs from traditional maintenance efforts.
It focuses on preserving the functions your assets/systems rather than preserving the
equipment itself. We determine the right failure management strategies to ensure your
assets/systems function the way you want them to function - safe, reliable and efficient.
RCM2 will:
• Improve asset/system performance, increase reliability and reduce risk
• Help you realize a greater return on your infrastructure and maintenance investment
through consistent, dependable operations
• Decrease safety and environmental risk stemming from equipment breakdowns
• Eliminate unnecessary preventive tasks saving money and staff time by doing the
right task at the right time
• Improve knowledge management and retention - more people learn more about
the equipment
• Improve overall communication in your organization
• Improved understanding and management of protective devices
RCM2 asks seven questions about your assets:
• What are its functions (what do its users want it to do)?
• In what ways can it fail (functional failures)?
• What causes it to fail (failure modes)?
• What happens when it fails (failure effects)?
• Does it matter if it fails (consequences of failure)?
• Can anything be done to predict or prevent the failure?
• What do we do if we cannot predict or prevent the failure?
RCM2 will develop the best failure management strategy for preserving
all your assets’ functions in a specific operating context.
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Executive Overview

Maintenance management is often perceived as a cost center activity rather than one
RCM2TM that leads to financial improvements. Leading organizations recognize that moving
Executive to an overall asset management approach using RCM2 principles can help drive
optimal equipment performance which translates directly into bottom line business
Overview improvements.

Course Logistics
• Exclusive course at your facility
• Individual attendance at a
public course hosted by The
Aladon Network
Prerequisites
• Business interest in Reliability
Centered Maintenance
This overview introduces executives to the intricacies of modern asset management so that
they are best prepared to actively sponsor an asset performance improvement initiative.
Roles and responsibilities within a reliability improvement initiative are examined and the
keys to success are discussed along with the review of actual case studies.
RCM2, the standard in Reliability Centered Maintenance, and its derivatives are introduced.
Discussions revolve around how these provide the framework necessary to develop
a sensible and defensible asset management program. Physical asset management
through RCM2 also forms the framework for a successful culture change for management,
maintenance, operations and engineering. Correctly applied, RCM2 achieves greater
safety and environmental integrity, improved operating performance and profitability,
higher maintenance cost-effectiveness, and longer useful life of physical assets.

Course Length By participating you will:

• 1 Day
Who Should Attend
• Executive Management
• General Managers, Directors
• Plant Managers
• Operations Managers
• Maintenance Managers
• Engineering Managers
• Superintendents
• Be introduced to the fundamental principles of Reliability Centered Maintenance.
• Learn how reliability can contribute to your overall business success.
• Gain direction in how to best achieve improved and sustainable asset performance
results.
• Have a better understanding of your role as an executive sponsor.
• Acquire knowledge to help make informed decisions in support of your asset
management strategies.
• Learn how RCM2 supports your organizational goals and if desired certification ISO
55000.
• RCM2 enables the mandate for Corporate Social Responsibility.

COCO NET
Ancaster, Ontario
Canada L9G 4T3

+1 (905) 536-0865
coconet-inc@cogeco.ca

www.aladon.com
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RCM3 will become the new standard and foundation for analyzing all assets (rotating
and static) for all industries. With the publication of ISO 31000 in 2009, ISO 55000 in
early 2014 and the impending API 691 suggested practice, companies who want to stay
RCM3™ competitive must take a new approach toward asset and risk management that will:
• Optimize available resources
• Increase the bottom line
• Maintain safety and environmental integrity

Benefits
• More decisions are made by
review groups saving time with
implementation
• Risks “quantified” and managed
pro-actively
• Reduced maintenance costs
• Risks managed appropriately at
the source
• Integrated with RCFA, RCD,
RBI3 and CA
RCM3 Training
• RCM3 Introductory Course
(3-Day)
• Advanced RCM3 Competency
Development for Facilitators
• On-site Coaching and
Facilitator Development
Program
• Aladon Facilitator Certification
Features of RCM3:
RCM2™ is industry’s most adopted RCM methodology – more than 80 countries are
using it worldwide. RCM3 extends this robust methodology to make reliability a
mainstream focus through emerging standards and new technologies. Simply put,
RCM3 is the most efficient failure management program for complex assets and processes.
RCM3 Highlights:
• Build on the core principles of RCM2 (and SAE JA1011) while improving how risk and
reliability are directly impacted by the Operating Context.
• Prioritizes management of your protected functions/systems. No more relying on
the availability of protection/protective devices only, so the outcomes of RCM3 are
even more defensible than any previous version.
• Incorporates principles of qualitative and quantitative risk management per the
most common internationally recognized Risk Management Vocabulary.
• New risk-based architectural structure for seamless integration with other processes
like RCD™ and functional FMECA, HAZOP and RBI. RCM3 fulfills ISO 55000 Asset
Management Standard requirements for asset reliability and performance.
• Manage consequences and your business risk while optimizing resources. RCM3
surpasses traditional RCM, SAE JA1011 and SAE JA1012 standards.
• Comprehensive software includes ability for current Aladon clients to import
existing RCM2 analyses and migrate them to RCM3. Software is fully user definable
and can be configured to include your risk matrix and criteria for qualitative and
quantitative risk-based decisions.

COCO NET
Ancaster, Ontario
Canada L9G 4T3

+1 (905) 536-0865
coconet-inc@cogeco.ca

www.aladon.com
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Executive Overview

AladonTM and its associates have developed an integrated Risk and Reliability
Management Methodology and associated processes to ensure sustainable reliability
RCM3TM improvement for all operations and maintenance. RCM3 is the core or center from
Executive which these other processes hinge and they consist of Root Cause Failure Analysis
(RCFA), Reliability Centered Design (RCD), Risk Based Inspection (RBI3TM) and
Overview Condition Assessment (CA). These methodologies support the International Asset
and Risk Management standards ISO 55001 and ISO 31000.

RCM3 is an extension to our robust RCM2 process. RCM3 focuses on preserving asset or
system functions while reducing or eliminating physical and economic risks. RCM3
Course Logistics is enabling organizations to bring reliability mainstream with their asset management
• Exclusive course at your facility (ISO 55000) and risk management (ISO 31000) systems. RCM3 is fully compliant with the
• Individual attendance at a SAE standards and actually goes beyond though addressing the international
public course hosted by The asset management standard’s requirements full on.
Aladon Network
RCM3 is a process used to define the minimum required safe amount of maintenance,
engineering and other failure management policies to ensure a tolerable level of safety,
Prerequisites environmental integrity and cost effective operational capability (given a certain
• Business interest in Reliability operating context) as specified in the organization’s asset management standard.
Centered Maintenance
Identifying and understanding the risks under-performing assets pose to achieving
Course Length business objectives is one of the most difficult issues asset managers struggle with
• 1 Day today.

Who Should Attend By participating you will:

• Executive Management
• General Managers, Directors • Be introduced to the fundamental principles of Reliability Centered Maintenance
• Plant Managers and RCM3.
• Operations Managers • Learn how reduced risk through reliability improvement can contribute to your
• Maintenance Managers overall business success.
• Engineering Managers
• Superintendents • Gain direction in how to best achieve improved and sustainable asset performance
results while lowering business risks.
• Have a better understanding of your role as an executive sponsor.
• Acquire knowledge to help make informed decisions in support of your asset and
risk management strategies.
COCO NET
Ancaster, Ontario • Learn how RCM3 reduces physical and economic risks and contributes to
Canada L9G 4T3 organizational objectives.
• Learn how RCM3 enables the mandate for Corporate Social Responsibility.
+1 (905) 536-0865
coconet-inc@cogeco.ca For more information please call +1 (910) 399-3867
www.aladon.com
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RCM3TM Software
Software highlights:
• Quick navigation between fields
for more effective facilitation
• Customizable fields to suit user
requirements
• Import asset hierarchies (from
CMMS) and customer defined risk
matrix
• Export RCM3 analyses for
implementation in CMMS
• Import RCM analyses from other
RCM software packages
• Risk evaluation and risk
management quantified
• Training and comprehensive
manual available with software
• Comprehensive reports
System Requirements
• RAM 2 GB
• HDD Space: 600MB (required for
RWB & database)
• Network Speed: 100MBs or faster
• MS Windows 7 or later
• MS Office 2007 or later
• Microsoft.NET Framework 4.0 or
later
• Microsoft SQL Server Native Client
• Microsoft SQL 2008
• Express 2008 R2 or later (with file
streaming) for local installation
COCO NET
Ancaster, Ontario
Canada L9G 4T3
+1 (905) 536-0865
coconet-inc@cogeco.ca
www.aladon.com
Reliability Engineering Workbench
RCM3TM Software
Aladon and its associates have developed an integrated Risk and Reliability Management
Methodology and Process. The process consists of various modules including: Reliability
Centered Maintenance (RCM2/RCM3), Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA), Reliability
Centered Design (RCD), Risk Based Inspection (RBI3) and Condition Assessment (CA).
These methodologies support the International Asset and Risk Management standards.
RCM3 is an extension to our robust RCM2 process. RCM3 focuses on preserving asset
or system functions while reducing or eliminating physical and econimic risks. RCM3
is allowing organizations to bring reliability mainstream with their asset management
(ISO 55000) and risk management (ISO 31000) systems. RCM3 is fully compliant to the
SAE standards and actually goes beyond, though addressing the international asset
management standard’s requirements full on.
RCM3 does so in the following steps:
1. Define the operating context (how the equipment is being used)?
2. What are its functions (what does the user want)?
3. What are the failed states (total failure and partial failure)?
4. What can cause it to fail (failure causes and mechanisms)?
5. What happens when it fails (failure effects)?
6. Does it matter if it fails (failure consequences)?
7. What are the associated risks (physical and economic)?
8. Can anything be done proactively to reduce the risk to a tolerable level?
9. What if we cannot find ways to proactively reduce the risk to a tolerable level?
A comprehensive software program called “Reliability Engineering Workbench”
supports the RCM3 and RCFA processes to allow for the seamless integration and
continuous improvement through proactive work identification and reactive root
cause failure analysis and defect elimination.
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(RCM2TM) TRAINING COURSES

Comprehensive, progressive and practical

training solutions tailored to your organization

Carlo Odoardi, COCO NET Inc.

Phone: (905) 536-0865
Email: carlo.odoardi@cogeco.ca

Over
70,000
people have
attended Aladon
Training Courses
 TRAINING COURSES

The World’s Reliability Experts at Your Service

The Aladon Network is a global fraternity of reliability experts certified by Aladon in the training and
application of Reliability-Centered Maintenance 2 (RCM2TM). This advanced methodology offer a team-based
approach to developing a reliability strategy for all key assets in an organization. The Aladon Network members
have helped clients apply RCM2 and MTATM across multiple industries in 80 countries delivered in
12 languages. More than 70,000 people have attended Aladon training courses worldwide over the past 25 years.
What sets The Aladon Network apart from other reliability groups and RCM/FMEA methodologies is the depth of
understanding in reliability-centered maintenance practices, as well as the completeness of our training materials and
certification programs. Whether you receive training in North America, South America, Europe, Australia or Asia, the high
quality of the training, coaching and facilitation delivered by our certified network members is consistent. This dedication
to quality and consistency is evident in the further development of competent client facilitators and the direct delivery of
facilitated analysis services.

The strength of The Aladon Network truly is our community of certified practitioners and facilitators and their ongoing
commitment to excellence. Our standards are set high and as a result our customers benefit from our collective
knowledge, our understanding of equipment across multiple industries and our consistent approach to reliability
improvement.

How Do I Get Started?

An Aladon Network professional can provide direction and guidance in defining a successful reliability training and
implementation strategy focused on your asset management improvement objectives. The Aladon Network can
bring real world experience to help you assess your current asset management performance and benchmark your
company against others in your industry. They can also help you define a strategy for reliability improvement and
assist you with the development of a financial business case for implementation. The Aladon Network also offers a
series of hands-on reliability based training programs with practical ready to use ideas. These programs help
determine where to focus your improvement efforts and how to select the risk appropriate strategy to bridge your
asset performance issues. Contact your local Aladon Network member or Aladon to book an appointment.

Take a Leadership Role in Your Organization

The application of Aladon reliability practices completely transforms the view that any organization has of its
physical assets and how they should be maintained and operated. Participation in the development of technically
valid reliability-centered maintenance programs will not only revolutionize the participant’s view of asset
management, but improve their understanding of how optimized asset performance supports the business goals of
all departments across the organization. Whether you want a basic understanding of reliability principles or you
want to become an Aladon Certified Facilitator, Aladon offers the training and competency development programs
to meet your requirements. Individuals trained by The Aladon Network are typically selected for promotion and find
opportunities within their company as leaders in asset management and reliability. The Aladon Network can help put
your career on the path to reliability leadership.

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Training and Programs Available
Aladon offers a series of hands-on training courses filled with practical ideas, techniques and real world
scenarios. No matter what your company’s current level of reliability knowledge is, these training and
development courses can help your maintenance and operations teams understand how to focus their
improvement efforts and develop a culture of asset management.

• RCM2 Executive Overview

• RCM2 Introductory Course
• RCM2 Facilitator Course
• RCM2 Facilitator Certification
• Aladon Certified Practitioner Program

Become an Aladon Certified

Practitioner or Facilitator
Aladon
Aladon Certified Practitioner Program Certified
Coaching - Analysis support & mentoring Audit Practitioner
- Analysis review and feedback Training - Program
Provide training coaching Coaching | Audit | Exam
Aladon Network™ Membership

RCM2 Facilitator Certification

RCM2 Facilitator Certification
Apply facilitation skills (enabling)

Advanced RCM2 Training

Advanced RCM2 Training
Learn RCM2 facilitation skills (10 days)

RCM2 Introductory Course

RCM2 Introductory Course
Learn the basics of RCM2 (3 days)

Training Options
Exclusive Course:
This is a training course held at your company facility for your internal participants only. The course fees
are per course and instructor travel costs are extra.

Hosted Course:
This is a training course held at your company facility for your internal participants and other external
participants approved by your company. The course fees are per course and instructor travel costs are
extra. All external participants are charged a per person fee which is used to proportionately reduce the
host company course fee.

Public Course:
This course is typically hosted by The Aladon Network at a location of their choice and is open to all
participants. Public courses are held in locations around the world. The course fees are charged per
person. Instructor travel costs and facility costs are included. Participant travel costs are not included.

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 TRAINING COURSES

RCM2 Executive Overview • Have a better understanding of your role as an

executive sponsor.
• Acquire knowledge to help make informed
Maintenance management is often perceived decisions in support of your asset management
as a cost center activity rather than one that strategies.
leads to financial improvements. Leading
organizations recognize that moving to an COURSE • Exclusive course at your facility.
LOGISTICS
• Individual attendance at a
overall asset management approach using
public course hosted by The
RCM2 principles can help drive optimal Aladon Network.
equipment performance which translates
NUMBER OF Maximum 20
directly into bottom line business PARTICIPANTS

improvements.
PREREQUISITES Business interest in Reliability-
Centered Maintenance
This overview introduces executives to the
intricacies of modern asset management so that COURSE LENGTH 1 day
they are best prepared to actively sponsor an asset
performance improvement initiative. Roles and WHO SHOULD • Executive Management
ATTEND
responsibilities within a reliability improvement • General Managers, Directors
initiative are examined and the keys to success are • Plant Managers
discussed along with the review of actual case • Operations Managers
studies. • Maintenance Managers
• Engineering Managers
RCM2, the standard in Reliability-Centered
Maintenance, and its derivatives are introduced. COURSE
Discussions revolve around how these provide the MATERIALS
Introduction to RCM2 Overview
framework necessary to develop a sensible and
defensible asset management program. Physical
asset management through RCM2 also forms the
framework for a successful culture change for
management, maintenance, operations and
engineering. Correctly applied, RCM2 achieves
greater safety and environmental integrity, improved
operating performance and profi tability, higher
maintenance cost-effectiveness, and longer useful
life of physical assets.

By Participating You Will

• Be introduced to the fundamental principles of
Reliability-Centered Maintenance.
• Learn how reliability can contribute to your overall
business success.
• Gain direction in how to best achieve improved and
sustainable asset performance results.

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 RCM2 Introductory Course
CONTRIBUTE TO A
This course provides a comprehensive RELIABILITY
introduction to RCM2 and its principles. It is INITIATIVE IN AN
intended for those who are interested in EFFECTIVE AND
understanding what RCM2 is and how it can be EFFICIENT MANNER.
applied to defi ne technically based
maintenance and reliability programs.

The application of RCM2 challenges the traditional

approach to equipment maintenance by moving you
from a breakdown and repair mentality to a culture of
asset management. Not only does it revolutionize
views about maintenance but also about how
maintenance, operations and engineering should
work together to drive asset performance. RCM2
leads to a far broader and deeper understanding of
the organization’s assets and provides a structured
way to formally capture and transfer that knowledge
to the rest of the asset stakeholders.

This introduction to RCM2 redefines your

understanding of maintenance management and will
completely transform the way that maintenance and
operations people view the development of
maintenance programs and their roles and
responsibilities in that process. This course applies
best practices in answering the seven questions of
RCM2 using a real life, case study approach. The
participants will explore the techniques required to
define a maintenance program in a logical and
structured way that recognizes the hidden, safety,
environmental and operating consequences of
failure.
By Participating You Will
• Develop a greater awareness of the importance
of asset failure consequences and how to
manage them in an effective way.
• Learn the RCM2 language and its importance
to maintenance, operations and engineering
and their understanding of equipment operation
and maintenance.
• Be able to evaluate maintenance and
operational strategies that are technically
feasible and worth doing while maximizing
safety and environmental compliance.
• Be prepared to participate in an RCM2
analysis session as a subject matter expert.

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DAY 3 - MORNING

• Predictive and preventive tasks

LEADING THE WAY IN • Default actions – Detective tasks,
ASSET RELIABILITY modifications, procedures, or no
scheduled maintenance
IMPROVEMENT. DAY 3 - AFTERNOON
• Applying and implementing
the results

This course is a prerequisite for anyone who plans to

attend the RCM2 Facilitator Course or participate in
the Aladon Certified Facilitator Program.

COURSE • Exclusive course at your

LOGISTICS
facility for your employees.
• Hosted course at your facility for
your employees and participants
from other companies.
• Individual attendance at a public course
hosted by The Aladon Network.
NUMBER OF Maximum 20
PARTICIPANTS

PREREQUISITES Understanding of equipment

COURSE LENGTH 3 days
WHO SHOULD • Plant Managers
ATTEND
• Operators
AGENDA DAY 1 - MORNING • Maintenance Trades
• The business case for reliability • Planners, Schedulers
• Overview of the RCM2 process • Operations Managers,
DAY 1 - AFTERNOON Supervisors
• Functions and functional failures - • Maintenance Managers,
Applying the concepts to a case study Supervisors
• Engineering Managers
DAY 2 - MORNING
• Engineers
• Modes and effects – Applying the
concepts to a case study COURSE • RCM2 textbook by John Moubray
MATERIALS
DAY 2 - AFTERNOON • Case studies (Benzene or
Conveyor)
• Consequences – Answering the worth • RCM2 Decision Diagram
doing question when selecting a
strategy • Exercises and solution sets

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Advanced RCM2 Training • RCM2 review

The RCM2 Facilitator Course is a 10 day • The role of the facilitator, and
the 45 facilitator competencies
course introducing the skills necessary to
• Managing an analysis,
successfully lead an RCM2 analysis. An
conducting facilitated meetings,
experienced Aladon Certified Practitioner will applying the logic and RCM2
teach you to understand the 45 competencies functions review
of a facilitator through classroom application • Facilitating an RCM2 analysis
and coaching using real world case studies. and participative learning on a
RCM2 case study
An RCM2 analysis conducted by a competent
facilitator significantly increases asset performance
while improving safety and environmental
compliance and reducing unexpected costs. A
DAY 2

qualified facilitator will maximize the quality and

consistency of the asset reliability program and • Understanding functional
failure analysis
support the resulting cultural change. During the
RCM2 Facilitator Course the concepts of RCM2
• Understanding failure modes
are reinforced and the participants apply these by and effects analysis
practicing their facilitation skills in a controlled,
coached environment. • Handling complex failure modes

By Participating You Will • Facilitating an RCM2 analysis

and participative learning on a
• Acquire the 45 competencies required to RCM2 case study
successfully lead an RCM2 analysis.
• Gain an in-depth understanding of the RCM2 DAY 3
concepts and methodology.
• Effective use of the RCM2
• Learn how to generate consensus regarding
technical problems and their solutions. Decision Diagram

• Apply the methodology through coached formal

case studies and on real assets to ensure • Facilitating an RCM2 analysis
sensible and defensible results. and participative learning on a
• Develop your facilitation skills in a controlled, RCM2 case study
coached environment.
• Understand how to use EXP Professional to
facilitate an RCM analysis.
• Get a 30 day free trial of EXP Professional
software.

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AGENDA CONT’D DAY 4

• Definition and how to prepare an
operating context
• Predictive technologies
• Preparing for a zero-based
analysis and writing the
operating context
• Facilitating a RCM2 analysis on
a zero based case study using
EXP Professional software
DAY 5
• Facilitating functions and
functional failure development of
the zero based case study
• Setting analysis performance
sandards
• Feedback and coaching on
analysis
DAY 6-8
• Facilitating failure modes and
failure effects development of
the zero based case study
• Evaluating failure
consequences and describing
tasks adequately using the
RCM2 Decision Diagram
• Feedback and coaching on
analysis
COURSE • Exclusive course at your facility
LOGISTICS
for your employees
• Hosted course at your facility for
your employees and participants
from other companies.
• Individual attendance at a public
course hosted by The Aladon
Network.
NUMBER OF Maximum 10
PARTICIPANTS
PREREQUISITES RCM2 Introductory Course
COURSE LENGTH 10 days
WHO SHOULD • Reliability Specialists//Engineers
ATTEND
• Reliability Change Leaders
• Maintenance Supervisors
• Core Team Members
COURSE • EXP Professional software (30
MATERIALS
day free trial)
• EXP training guide for RCM2
• RCM2 case study
• RCM2 Decision Diagram
• Exercises and solution sets
• RCM2 posters
• Facilitation reference guides

DAY 9
• Hidden failures and the
determination of failure finding
interval (FFI)

DAY 10
• Complete the zero based case
study analysis
• Prepare a RCM2 analysis
report and present to an RCM2
Practitioner
• Understanding change and
change management

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Aladon Certified Facilitator
Program
As an Aladon Certified Facilitator you will be
eligible for ‘Associate’ membership in The
Aladon Network where you can further
develop your skills, share ideas and
experiences with our Aladon Network
members and Certified Aladon Practitioners.
The Aladon Certified Facilitator Program assists you
in taking all of your classroom training in RCM2 to
the next level in your organization. The program is
designed to provide the appropriate amount of
coaching and mentoring to build your competency to
the quality levels expected by the Certified
Practitioners in The Aladon Network itself. Once you
pass the technical audits for RCM2, and the
certification exam, you will be recognized as an
Aladon Certified Facilitator and an ‘Associate
Member’ in The Aladon Network. This certification
not only elevates your credibility within your
company but also with your peers in industry and
academia around the world.
Benefits of Certification
• Opportunity to benchmark the quality of your
RCM2 analysis.
• Recognition of your status as an Aladon Certified
Facilitator on the Aladon website.
• Discounts on Aladon training and events.
• Associate membership to The Aladon Network
and online community where you can share
ideas, tips, techniques and brainstorm about the
future of reliability in the industrial world.
• Annual membership includes a technical audit
every two years.
Certification Requires and Includes:
• Successful completion of the RCM2 facilitator
courses.
• Pass the technical audit of a recent RCM2
analysis.
• Pass the online facilitator exam.
• Certificate and letter of achievement.
• Associate membership in The Aladon Network
(includes first year membership fees).
For those who already have experience as an
RCM2 Facilitator, the certification process is as
simple as booking your technical audits and
writing the certification examination.
Technical Audits
The technical audit of RCM2 analysis provides a
means to validate that the RCM2 principles are being
applied by the facilitator and that the quality of the
analysis is up to the standards of The Aladon
Network. The audit is performed by an experienced
Aladon Certified Practitioner and is used as a tool to
identify strengths and weaknesses in the facilitator’s
application of the concepts. The technical audit
assures that the designation of Aladon Certified
Facilitator is synonymous with quality and
consistency.
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Performance Coaching
Competency in the application of RCM2 cannot be
achieved with classroom training sessions alone. A
RELIABILITY - THE JOURNEY combination of classroom theory and practical
TO OPERATIONAL application is necessary to be capable of developing
from awareness and knowledge to competency. This
EXCELLENCE. progression is essential in providing facilitators with
the understanding and skills required to apply these
practices efficiently and effectively.

It is highly recommended that facilitator candidates

receive performance coaching on RCM analysis to
prepare them for the technical audit and the
certification examination. Performance coaching by a
Certified Aladon Practitioner provides the feedback
and continuous improvement required to develop
competency and insure the quality of delivery
necessary to achieve certification status within
Aladon. During an analysis, a Certified Aladon
Practitioner participates in the analysis session
providing ongoing feedback to the facilitator. Upon
completion of the analysis the practitioner generates
a formal written report of the facilitator’s progress and
performance, as well as a technical assessment of
the analysis.

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Certification Examination
The certification exam is the final step in
achieving Aladon Certified Facilitator status and is
administered online by Aladon. The candidate will
be tested on the fundamentals and application of
RCM2 in a multiple choice/long answer format.
The candidate must pass the technical audit
portion of the program as a prerequisite to taking
the exam.
Onsite Coaching
Onsite coaching provides the greatest opportunity
for competency development as an Aladon
Certified Practitioner is able to impart his/her
years of experience and expertise while
interacting one-on-one with the facilitator. In this
way the facilitator’s skill development and
learning curve is accelerated and results assured.
Optimally, the practitioner participates in the
following activities:
• In person for the duration of the first analysis,
• In person for part or all of the second and third
analyses and any further analyses as required.
• A formal written assessment/feedback report is
provided following each coached analysis.
Remote Coaching
Although onsite coaching is always the preferred
option, remote coaching is available when
appropriate. This involves virtual attendance, as well
as offsite coaching and auditing by the practitioner
using technologies that are readily available. The
facilitator and the client organization benefit from our
expertise while minimizing costs. The remote
coaching would typically include the following
activities:
• An Aladon Certified Practitioner ‘sits in’ on the
facilitation session using a web camera or views a
recorded video and assesses the facilitator’s skills
against the 45 competencies.
• The practitioner conducts a 2 hour off site review
and discussion of the day’s results with the
facilitator at the end of each session using online
meeting technology.
• A formal written assessment/feedback report
is provided following each coached analysis.
Contact Carlo Odoardi, Aladon Network Member, for
information regarding onsite or remote performance
coaching and technical audits: 905 536-0865 or
carlo.odoardi@cogeco.ca .
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Consulting Services from
The Aladon Network
RCM2 Facilitation Services
If you are experiencing asset performance issues
that are impacting your business and you don’t have
time to train your own resources to facilitate RCM2,
The Aladon Network can help get your improvement
program started. Our Aladon Certified Practitioners
can help reduce the time it takes to thoroughly
analyze, develop and implement proactive reliability
strategies on your mission critical assets. Whether
you have an immediate need in advance of your
planned training program or you are not able to free
up resources at this time, The Aladon Network can
work with you and your company to define the right
reliability approach to meet your needs now.
Asset Management Strategy Development
and Program Management
Although RCM2 is an important practice that will
assist you and the organization in the development
of a technically based maintenance and reliability
program, it is only part of the solution.
The Aladon Network can help you develop a
comprehensive plan to implement and sustain a
reliability-based asset management program. Our
Network members can help you align your business
goals and objectives to your assets and work with
your management teams to develop asset
management policies and risk based strategies.
They can further help you define business processes
with detailed tasks for asset management including
roles and responsibilities for your maintenance and
operations teams. Most of our Network professionals
can also help you with other strategies such as Root
Cause Analysis (RCA), Relibility-Centered Design
(RCD), Reliability-Centered Spares (RCS), planning
and scheduling training and other practices to
maximize asset efficiency and effectiveness. From
asset management assessments and audits to
business plans and overall project management, The
Aladon Network
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TRAINING COURSES
members can help you define, implement and
manage your reliability program successfully while
training your people to become competent reliability
professionals in their own right.
Many of our Network members are affiliated with
reliability organizations such as the Society for
Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP),
the Institute of Asset Management (IAM) and other
reliability associations and academia. Many of our
members are capable of providing PAS 55 training
and audit services and are engaged in the
development of the ISO 55000 standard for Asset
Management. The Aladon Network takes asset
management and reliability seriously and we continue
to develop our practices and capabilities as the asset
management community evolves.
EXP Professional Software-
Enabling Technology for
Reliability
EXP Professional is the leading reliability strategy
development software. First and foremost, EXP
Professional enables the documentation of an RCM2
analysis thereby speeding up the overall facilitation
process and eliminating the paperwork. EXP goes a
step further than other RCM software toolkits by
offering complementary functionality to support a risk
based approach to determining where to focus your
efforts across your entire equipment base.
Understanding the business risk of safety,
environmental, operating and non-operating
consequences helps you determine where RCM2 is
most appropriate and helps you develop a roadmap
for improvement that is technically based and
defensible. Your analysis will not end up in a binder
sitting on a shelf or charts hanging on the wall. EXP
eliminates the paperwork and allows you to show
your analysis, results and action plans to your
management team immediately after the facilitation
session.
EXP Professional goes beyond traditional RCM
toolkits. EXP Pro supports a full suite of
integrated modules to help you define a complete
reliability improvement strategy.
Designed with input from The Aladon Network
Practitioners, and developed by the leading
enterprise software developers at Bentley
(previously Ivara), EXP Professional includes
modules for:
• Asset Hierarchy - EXP Pro supports an unlimited
multi-level hierarchy of assets and asset
information. Use your existing CMMS/EAM
structure to align your reliability results with your
work management system or use EXP Pro to build
the hierarchy to your requirements.
• Asset Prioritization - EXP Pro provides all the tools
required to facilitate an effective asset prioritization
to help determine where to focus your efforts. Let
Ivara EXP Pro do the calculations to assess the
risk and consequences of failure to determine the
assets that should be tackled first for reliability
improvement
• Reliability Strategy Selection - This decision
support tool uses a risk-based methodology build
into a wizard like application in EXP Professional to
objectively determine which assets require RCM2
and which are suitable for MTA, enabling a balance
between these two approaches.
• RCM2 - EXP Pro provides the tools that allow an
RCM2 facilitator to quickly and easily document an
RCM analysis-speeding up the overall RCM
process. With EXP, the facilitator will not be
distracted from the facilitation role as the software
guides them through the process. EXP Pro also
supports complex calculations for failure finding
interval (FFI) and incorporates a graphical, fully
integrated RCM2 decision diagram to determine
the appropriate action plan for each failure mode.
For more information about these services, please contact your nearest Aladon Network Member...
Carlo Odoardi at (905) 536-0865 or via Email at carlo.odoardi@cogeco.ca .
Technology Features:
• Available in English, French, Portuguese, and
Spanish.
• Single user or multi user versions.
• Built on SQL Server and included with the
software (no more MS-Access).
• Easy to install and administer.
• Easy to use – Intuitive user interface, easy to
navigate, short-cuts, spell check, powerful reporting
and presentation capabilities.
• Enhanced security – easy to set up at module,
object, field, function levels.
• Import/export analysis – import from the old
Aladon RCM toolkit, export to Excel. Talk to an
Aladon representative for more information about
potential upgrade credit for certain RCM toolkits.
We also offer the ability to upgrade to Ivara’s EXP
Enterprise APM (Asset Performance Management)
software when you are ready to move to the next
level in reliability implementation. Ivara offers an
upgrade path to EXP Enterprise that seamlessly
maintains your data and your investment in EXP
Professional. Talk to an Ivara representative to
understand what EXP Enterprise can do for your
organization.
Free trial – When you attend the RCM2 Facilitator
Course, you will receive a 30 day free trial version
of Ivara EXP Professional.
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Members of The Aladon Network are
located across the globe including
North, Central & South America,
Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia,
and Australia.

For more information on services or courses

offered by us, contact...

Carlo Odoardi, Principal & Aladon Network Member

Phone: (905) 536-0865
Email: carlo.odoardi@cogeco.ca

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