The correct answer is D . IAM’s Anatomy of Asset Management Version 4 states that maintenance regimes may be determined using reliability engineering techniques such as FMECA, Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), and Risk-Based Maintenance or Inspection (RBM/RBI) . These techniques are used during maintenance strategy development to determine what maintenance is needed and on what basis.
The IAM-aligned GFMAM Maintenance Framework is especially clear on the relationship. It says that asset maintenance strategy development produces the key deliverables of asset maintenance plans , which specify the nature and frequency of proactive maintenance interventions . It also states that, for critical assets, risk-based and data-driven analytical techniques such as RCM and RBI must be used in determining maintenance plans and tasks. Then, in the work management section, it explains that work planning develops the work packages needed to execute those maintenance plan activities. In other words: RBM determines and optimizes the maintenance tasks and frequencies; work planning then converts those into executable work packages. That is exactly option D .
Why the other options are incorrect:
A is incomplete and misleading because RBM does more than identify failure modes for repair tasks; its role is to help determine the optimized maintenance tasks and frequencies for the maintenance plan.
B reverses the logic. Historical maintenance performance can inform RBM, but it is not the starting-point definition of the relationship.
C is incorrect because CMMS supports execution and control of work, but it does not replace RBM methodology or generate RBM from work optimization outputs.
E is incorrect because there is a direct relationship between RBM and planned maintenance; RBM informs the maintenance plan, and work planning executes it.
