Having a reliability team is seen as a strategic role. The make-up of this group really depends upon the organization. Possible roles at the table include:

• HSE Manager: Safety training, accident investigations, LOTO, management of change
• Asset Manager: Analytical reports, recurring problems, KPIs/metrics
• Reliability Engineer: Engineering, issues with assets, RCAs
• Planner/Scheduler: Backlog trending weekly schedule, PM-job plans, outage planning
• CMMS Coordinator: Time in status, present reactive, work order feedback

Below is a list of possible duties for this group:

• Review bad actor report and drill down on failure mode/cause.
• Review condition monitoring data trends and exception readings. Talk with craftsman about new CBM work order and suggested deadline. Track cost avoidance savings as linked to CBT discoveries.
• Evaluate negative asset condition trends.
• Initiate Root Cause Analysis (RCA) when warranted, i.e., thresholds exceeded; assign lead; monitor status.
• Perform risk-based criticality on all assets.
• Participate in RCM Analysis reviews.
• Review feedback from defect elimination teams to get a sense of outstanding issues.
• Work with planners on engineering related work order feedback.
• Review recent work orders flagged as functional failure events on critical assets.
• Review emergency/urgent events from prior week as to cause.
• Review management of change documents.
• Review work that was performed outside of weekly schedule approved scope.
• Discuss abnormal operational events with shift supervisors.
• Discuss “at risk” assets as identified by the Operation/Production Manager
• Review KPIs of significance with negative trends.
• Evaluate any high-risk work in the backlog.