Reliability Strategies
Reliability Strategies enables you to create and manage strategies that define how assets are maintained and how failures are addressed. It provides a structured approach to identifying failure modes and mapping them to effective mitigation actions. The solution also includes access to a comprehensive repository of industry-informed failure data and recommended activities, spanning a wide range of asset types and operating conditions.
Before you begin
For Maximo® Manage 9, you do not need to complete any configuration steps for Reliability Strategies. To enable user access, assign users to one of the security groups in the following table. These groups are available after you install Reliability Strategies.
Reliability Strategies helps reliability engineers design, evaluate, and manage maintenance strategies for assets based on:
- How assets fail
- How critical the failures are
- How mitigation activities are put in place
Reliability Strategies supports two complementary workflows:
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Reliability Strategies (RS): Strategies that you create and manage for specific assets, configurations, and operating contexts.
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Strategy Library: A cloud-based library of predefined reliability strategies and failure data that you can reuse, duplicate, or adapt.
Together, these capabilities support a transition from time-based maintenance to risk-based and condition-driven maintenance planning.
| Security group | Description |
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| RELIABILITYSTRATEGIES | Access Reliability Strategies and the strategy library. |
| STRATEGYBUILDER | Access Reliability Strategies and the strategy library. Create strategies, add actions and mitigation activities, and view completed strategies. |
| STRATEGYIMPLEMENTER | Access Reliability Strategies and the strategy library. Add PMs and job plans to track strategy implementation and view completed strategies. Cannot edit or create strategies. |
| STRATEGYVIEWER | Access Reliability Strategies and the strategy library. View completed strategies. Cannot edit strategies, create strategies, or add tasks to track strategy implementation. |
Other security groups that a user belongs to can affect the data that the user can view and access in Reliability Strategies. For example, if a user has access to assets only at a certain site, the user can add tasks for only those assets.
- Licensing
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- Reliability Strategies are available as a zero AppPoints add-on.
- No additional licensing is required to install or enable the capability.
- Deployment models
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Capability Saas On-prem Reliability Strategies Supported Supported Strategies library Supported Not supported in on-premises deployments; however, you can access the functionality from on-premises environments through a redirect to the SaaS-based service. - Version management
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- Installed versions are visible in the Administration Workspace
- When a new release becomes available, users are prompted to upgrade
- Manual uninstall/reinstall is not required for upgrades.
- Key strategy concepts
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Concept Description Boundary The Boundary defines what the strategy covers and excludes.
- Includes: Components and behaviors that are considered in the strategy
- Excludes: Components or conditions that are outside the scope
Boundaries guide failure mode creation and prevent incorrect application of strategies to assets.
Risk matrices Risk matrices are used to assess and prioritize failure modes based on defined risk factors such as severity, occurrence, and detectability. They support risk-based decision making when defining maintenance strategies.
Functions and failures Functions describe the intended performance of an asset.
Functional failures describe how the asset fails to meet performance requirements.
Meters Meters track usage or operating conditions of an asset, such as time, cycles, or load. They support condition-based and meter-based maintenance strategies.
Change summary The Change summary records changes made to a strategy, including updates to failure modes, actions, and mitigation activities. It provides traceability and supports review and validation processes.
Failure modes Failure modes describe how an asset can fail.
They define the way a failure is observed from a functional perspective.
Note: Use the AI assistance feature to accelerate failure analysis and improve consistency.Failure mechanisms Failure mechanisms explain the underlying processes that lead to failure. They describe how damage or degradation develops within an asset.
Failure influences Failure influences identify the conditions or factors that affect failure. They describe what drives or accelerates the processes that lead to failure.
Actions Actions are maintenance tasks that detect, prevent, or resolve failures. They are associated with failure modes and can be defined as time-based, meter-based, or condition-based.
Mitigation activities Mitigation activities define the work required to address a failure risk within a strategy.
Mitigation activities are a collection of Actions. They can be implemented through job plans and applied to maintenance records.
For Maximo Manage 8.7, you must configure Reliability Strategies before users can access it. For more information, see Configuring Reliability Strategies.
In the strategy library, when you specify an asset, asset type, and asset configuration, the system displays a maintenance strategy. For example, for an Accumulator asset of type Hydraulic with asset configuration Bladder Type, you can view failure modes, mitigation activities, and boundary information.