NAVAIR as an Effective Standard of Reliability Centered Maintenance for Determining Significant Functional Failures

In certain industries such as aviation, the different operations are very complex, and a small error may lead to a catastrophe. So, there is a strong motivation to establish an effective maintenance program to avoid any probable error. A concept called Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) was found in the 1960s and initially oriented towards maintaining airplanes. In this work, we first present some existing RCM standards since standardization is considered as an important element of maintainability. Four significant criteria are next selected in order to establish a comparison of four RCM standards. These comparison criteria are: 1) Categories of failure consequences, 2) Treatment of hidden failures, 3) Management of different consequences, and 4) Decision diagrams. Three of them are related to reliability improvement and the last one is related to the RCM process it-self. Here, we present and discuss the similarities and differences considering the selected criteria. In addition, we add new diagrams to combine between the different RCM standards which paves the way to establish a generalized RCM standard in the future works. As a result, NAVAIR is selected to be the most suitable standard to determine the significant functional failures in terms of safety, operations, environment, and economy.

In certain industries such as aviation, the different operations are very complex, and a small error may lead to a catastrophe. So, there is a strong motivation to establish an effective maintenance program to avoid any probable error. A concept called Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) was found in the 1960s and initially oriented towards maintaining airplanes. In this work, we first present some existing RCM standards since standardization is considered as an important element of maintainability. Four significant criteria are next selected in order to establish a comparison of four RCM standards. These comparison criteria are : 1) Categories of failure consequences, 2) Treatment of hidden failures, 3) Management of different consequences, and 4) Decision diagrams. Three of them are related to reliability improvement and the last one is related to the RCM process it-self. Here, we present and discuss the similarities and differences considering the selected criteria. In addition, we add new diagrams to combine between the different RCM standards which paves the way to establish a generalized RCM standard in the future works. As a result, NAVAIR is selected to be the most suitable standard to determine the significant functional failures in terms of safety, operations, environment, and economy.

Preventive Maintenance (PM) Reliability of Operating Systems Maintenance strategy Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM)

Reliability of Operating Systems Maintenance strategy Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) Preventive Maintenance (PM)