Best Practices, Metrics & Guidelines

Discover how to run safe, cost-efficient and effective maintenance and reliability ‎programs that align with strategic, operational and tactical best practices of your ‎organization.‎

This comprehensive document was developed by the SMRP Best Practices Committee ‎for the purpose of standardizing how maintenance and reliability professionals ‎measure and calculate common (and not-so-common) key performance indicators. The ‎‎70+ metrics and guidelines provide standardization and benchmarks to measure the ‎success of maintenance and reliability programs. Each metric is broken down by ‎definition, objective(s), formula, component definitions and qualifications, and ‎includes a sample calculation, best-in-class target values, cautions and notes for ‎harmonization. ‎

Download the SMRP Best Practices 7th Edition

The Best Practices 7th Edition is available free of charge to members. Please log in to your membership account to access and download the PDF.