Reliability-Centered Maintenance

1: Introduction.- 2: The RCM Program.- 2.1 Airline Industry RCM Programs.- 2.2 The US Army Aircraft RCM Program.- 2.3 The Decision Logic Process for US Army Aircraft.- 2.4 The RCM & ILS Interface.- 3: R&M Theory and Fundamental Concepts.- 3.1 Reliability-Age Characteristics.- 3.2 Reliability Degradation and Growth.- 3.3 Reliability Concepts and the Exponential Distribution.- 3.4 Maintainability Concepts.- 3.5 Availability Analysis.- 3.6 R&M Modeling.- 3.7 Life-Cycle Activities.- 4: R&M Engineering.- 4.1 Reliability Allocation and Prediction.- 4.2 Maintainability Allocation and Prediction.- 4.3 Failure Mode Analysis.- 4.3.1 Fault Tree Analysis.- 4.3.2 Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis.- 4.4 Reliability testing.- 4.4.1 The Design, Development and Production Reliability Growth and Qualification Process.- 4.4.2 The Planning and Implementation of Reliability Testing.- 4.4.3 Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action...- 4.5 Production, Storage and In-Service Degradation Control.- 4.6 Environmental Stress Screening (ESS).- 5: The Application of RCM within Depot Maintenance.- 5.1 The Depot Maintenance Process.- 5.2 Failure Mode Inspection Techniques.- 5.3 Airframe Condition Evaluation (ACE)-An On-Condition Maintenance Technique.- 6: The Army Aircraft Flight Safety Prediction Model.- 6.1 General Description and Assumptions.- 6.2 US Army Helicopter Application.- 6.3 Application of the Flight Safety Prediction Model with the RCM Logic.- References.- Appendix A: Glossary.- Appendix B: Bibliography.