Title on the cover page : RCM Reliability-centred maintenance.

Introduction to Reliability-centred Maintenance; Functions; Functional Failures; Failure Modes and effects Analysis; Failure Consequences; Proactive Maintenance 1: Preventive Tasks; Proactive Maintenance 2: Predictive Tasks; Default Actions 1: Failure-finding; Other Default Actions; The RCM Decision Diagram; Implementing RCM Recommendations; Actuarial Analysis and Failure Data; Applying the RCM Process; What RCM Achieves; A Brief History of RCM.

This text gives a practical explanation of what reliability-centred maintenance is and how it is efectively applied. The plant-based approach of the book makes it well-suited for use in industrial training schemes and centres of higher technical education.