Streamlined Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)

Abstract

This report provides an outline of a tutorial and application designed to educate facility managers about efficient building maintenance using Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM). The tutorial evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of four maintenance methods to help maintenance managers evaluate their current equipment maintenance methods. The cost benefits of implementing a different type of RCM based on the cost of maintenance could be significant. RCM can prevent "over maintaining" by saving mechanical labor time as well as maintenance dollars.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA376086

Entities

People

  • Alan Chalifoux
  • Jearldine I. Northrup
  • Nina Y. Chan

Organizations

  • Construction Engineering Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Calculators
  • Costs
  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases
  • Downtime
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Labor
  • Machines
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Costs
  • Materials
  • Monitoring
  • Preventive Maintenance
  • Reliability
  • Technology Transfer
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Criminal Law
  • Systems Analysis and Design