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RCM: Reliability Centered Maintenance
Definition:
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is an analysis technique that has its origins in the aircraft industry.
Aim:
RCM increases the availability of the machine by answering the following questions:
- Which components need to be maintained?
- What type of maintenance needs to be performed on the components to be maintained? The type of maintenance refers here to: curative maintenance, preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance.
- Which components need to be kept in stock?
VPE’s approach:
One of the pitfalls of RCM is that everything stops during this analysis. RCM only provides benefits if the RCM results are translated into maintenance tasks.
VPE concentrates on a complete, fully-fledged implementation once the RCM has been carried out. (See the section on drawing up maintenance tasks)