15 Reliability-Centered Maintenance
15.1 Introduction
Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) systematically highlights the preventive maintenance-related tasks required for sustaining, in the most cost-effective manner possible, the maximum level of reliability and safety that can be expected from a product when it receives effective maintenance.
The history of RCM began within the commercial aircraft industrial sector in the late 1960s. A 1968 handbook titled “Maintenance Evaluation and Program Development,” prepared by the United States Air Transport Association (ATA) for use with the Boeing 747 aircraft, contained one of the earliest formal treatments of the subject [1, 2 and 3]. In 1970, a revised version ...
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