Quality assurance of production and the associated maintenance systems have changed a lot for recent decades and are subject to change requirements for reliability – Reliability and Availability of machinery and equipment subject to the optimal maintenance costs. The paper deals with design options and assessment of the maintenance system intended method of reliability-oriented maintenance and maintenance costs. They use the methods of statistical and probabilistic analyzes of data on failure mode of operation, as well as methods priori reliability. The emphasis is on cost-effectiveness evaluation.