ABSTRACT
Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) is a process that produces decisions, each of which must lead to action in one form or another such as predictive maintenance tasks, preventive maintenance tasks, detective maintenance tasks, and redesigns of the asset. Decisions made about design details can have a big influence on system operability and maintainability. Designers are focused on providing a system design that meets design specs. Those specs deal heavily with operational output requirements and often ignore operability and maintenance needs. Detective maintenance involves testing of backup and safety systems, normally dormant, to see that they are still working. Work plans define what actions are needed in the conduct of tasks we defined in the Reliability Centered Maintenance-Reengineered (RCM-R®) analysis. Support for all RCM-R® outputs can be defined, acquired, and positioned where it will do to the most good.
