ABSTRACT
Often, RAMS+C (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety plus Cost) take part of the relevant criteria for the decision-making of concern to maintenance planning.
The RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance) is a good example of a systematic methodology to establish an efficient maintenance plan to cope with all of the equipment dominant failure causes (Figure 1). Typically, the main objective in applying the RCM methodology has been to find out the best set of maintenance strategies that provide appropriate balance of equipment reliability and availability and associated costs.
