MODERN PLANT MAINTENANCE AND RELIABILITY MANAGEMENT METHODS – A REVIEW

The period from the 1990s has seen a large body of work in the areas of Plant Maintenance and Reliability Management. While strategies like RCM and TPM are popular and well known, there is also a large body of work that has attempted to move forward from these methodologies. The main intent of these approaches has been to address the issues faced during implementation of these methods. The newer methods of Plant Maintenance and Reliability Management are not as well known as the conventional methods. This paper attempts to collate and organize this body of knowledge in the form of a comprehensive review