Build‐in reliability (BIR) is becoming an essential requirement for product development today. However, the task of BIR can be resource‐intensive since root causes identification is necessary. If a product is complex, the number of possible failure modes can be great, rendering BIR too large...

Purpose – The paper seeks to ease the implementation of predictive maintenance policy in industry using the root cause analysis technique, and to compare the reliability and cost effectiveness of root cause based maintenance (RCBM) relative to conventional corrective maintenance (CM)....