Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)

Determining the preventive maintenance necessary to keep a product in good working order does not have to come from trial and error. Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is a method which identifies applicable and effective maintenance tasks needed to maintain the inherent reliability of systems or equipment at minimum cost. Successful application of a comprehensive RCM program can extend the useful life of your products in a cost-effective manner. ALE assists our clients in applying RCM methodologies to identify equipment failures and develop measures to prevent them from occurring in a catastrophic manner.

Fundamental to the concept of RCM is the belief that hardware reliability degrades with age and there are actions we can take to restore or maintain the original equipment reliability that is cost effective. ALE is intimately familiar with various methods of conducting RCM analysis, including both commercial and military published standards. Our processes apply classic RCM principles to determine maintenance requirements regardless of system level or equipment grouping and aide in the development of Planned Maintenance System (PMS) requirements.

ALE's analysts are NAVSEA RCM Level II certified and possess the experience, and technical and analytical expertise required to develop an effective RCM-based preventive maintenance program for systems of all sizes and complexity. Additionally, ALE has developed a set of user-friendly tools and forms to assist in the effective application and documentation of RCM analysis.

Our successes include our NAVSEA certified RCM analysts' efforts in the development of PMS requirements, which proved critical to meeting program milestones for the US Navy's LPD-17 Amphibious Assault Ship Program. ALE can assist in the effective application of RCM with the objective of achieving program benefits in availability, safety, and total ownership cost.