Description / Abstract:
This SAE Standard for Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is
intended for use by any organization that has or makes use of
physical assets or systems that it wishes to manage
responsibly.
Purpose
RCM is a specific process used to identify the policies which
must be implemented to manage the failure modes which could cause
the functional failure of any physical asset in a given operational
context. This document is intended to be used to evaluate any
process that purports to be an RCM process, in order to determine
whether it follows the original tenets of RCM as defined by Nowlan
and Heap. This document supports such an evaluation by specifying
the minimum criteria that a process must have in order to be an RCM
process.