Origins and principles
Reliability-Centered maintenance RCM2? method of John Moubray

In 1978, Nowlan and Heap, commissioned by the US Department of Defense, wrote a report entitled RCM Reliability Centered Maintenance , which introduced this new concept of maintenance strategy for the first time. Their method is primarily aimed at the commercial civil aviation sector, given their expertise in the maintenance of the United Airlines fleet. After Howard Heap's death, shortly after the publication of this essential report,...