Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) is a method for establishing a preventive maintenance programme which will efficiently and effectively allow the achievement of the required safety and availability levels of equipment and structures, which is intended to result in improved overall safety, availability and economy of operation.
The technique was initially developed for the commercial aviation industry in the late 1960s, ultimately resulting in the publication of the document, MSG-3, upon which the modern usage of RCM is based. It is now a proven and accepted methodology used in a wide range of industries.
Taranto Consultancy is part of the IEC committee (TC56) developing a new international standard for RCM.