Reliability‐Centred Maintenance (RCM)

Abstract

Several years ago the Department of Defence in the United States engaged United Airlines to develop detailed documentation to describe and justify airline practices for developing preventative maintenance programmes, such as those exemplified by the Air Transportation Association publication: MSG‐2 Airline/Manufacturer Maintenance Programme Planning Document. The result of that effort was a book entitled Reliability‐Centred Maintenance, that described a logical discipline for developing preventative maintenance programmes which are matched to specific, identified, inherent reliability characteristics of the equipment that they support.

Citation

HOWLAN, S. (1981), "Reliability‐Centred Maintenance (RCM)", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 53 No. 8, pp. 11-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb035742