People resist change and tend to trust familiar practices more than new ones. Reliability analysis Reliability analysis is a business practice that will make your business more competitive. The goal of analyzing installed assets is to uncover the reasons, symptoms, causes, and effects of equipment unreliability to get a handle on unexpected equipment failures. If the decision-makers in the company do not accept this concept, there is virtually no probability of success for the program. This is not to imply that this should be the only criterion used to make these decisions, but that reliability analysis can be used to modify this approach to improve reliability.
Some companies track failure data separately, simply to report on reliability.
In some industries, regulatory agencies require failure tracking and some even require adherence to limits on failure rates of assets installed in their facilities. This kind of regulatory requirement ensures that reliability problems get addressed as a regular part of doing business. CMMS were not necessarily designed to capture and report reliability data. These systems were optimized to manage, organize, and plan complex maintenance schedules. Because these systems were not originally intended for reliability tracking purposes, some people argue that reliability analysis on this data is invalid.