{"id":59269,"date":"2025-09-26T10:44:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T10:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/becolve.com\/blog\/what-is-the-rime-or-icgm-index-in-maintenance\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T10:44:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T10:44:56","slug":"what-is-the-rime-or-icgm-index-in-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/becolve.com\/en\/blog\/what-is-the-rime-or-icgm-index-in-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the RIME or ICGM Index in Maintenance?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How many times have 2 or more pieces of equipment stopped or broken down at the same time in your organization? If you do not have sufficient human resources at that time, based on what criteria do you prioritize maintenance actions? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the world of maintenance, it is vitally important to know how to prioritize and optimize resources to achieve maximum availability<\/strong> at the lowest possible cost. In many maintenance departments<\/strong>, this prioritization and optimization of resources is based on decisions made by personnel with many years of experience and great knowledge of the facilities they manage. Prioritizing maintenance actions based on experience is not incorrect, although it is a prioritization performed under an arbitrary bias<\/strong> and subjective, which can often generate problems of greater economic impact to the organization due to erroneous decision-making under the pressure of day-to-day operations. <\/p>\n

Within the different good practices of maintenance, there is an objective technique or methodology for making the best decisions when prioritizing a repair on one piece of equipment over another. This technique is the use of the RIME or ICGM factor. <\/p>\n

I<\/span> What is the RIME or ICGM Index?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

ICGM<\/strong>, which stands for \u00cdndice de Clasificaci\u00f3n para los Gastos de Mantenimiento<\/strong> (Maintenance Expenditure Classification Index) in Spanish, or RIME, which stands for Ranking Index for Maintenance Expenditure, is an objective mathematical methodology that allows determining the priority of different maintenance actions<\/strong>. For this prioritization, the type of work to be performed is taken into account, as well as the costs associated with the delay of these, and the criticality of the equipment for production. <\/p>\n

This methodology facilitates the maintenance manager’s decision of which maintenance tasks to prioritize<\/strong>, taking into account the human resources available, thus allowing for more efficient and objective management.<\/p>\n

I<\/span> <\/strong>how is it Calculated?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The RIME index is a simple multiplication of two factors:<\/p>\n

ICGM or RIME = Work Factor X Machine Factor<\/p>\n

Where:<\/p>\n