This presentation will focus on Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) - the process of determining the most effective strategy for maintaining equipment and function. The session will begin with a discussion of how things fail, with a review of the types of machine failure curves. Then the speaker will examine the four types of maintenance – reactive, preventive, predictive and proactive - outlining the different maintenance strategies. The session also will include a review of the technology and capabilities of vibration analysis with RCM.