Integration of RCM analysis into the S-3A maintenance program.
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Authors
Harris, Kenneth Dean
Subjects
reliability centered maintenance
age exploration
maintenance steering group
age exploration
maintenance steering group
Advisors
McMasters, Alan W.
Lawler, C.E.
Date of Issue
1986-12
Date
December 1986
Publisher
Language
en_US
Abstract
In recent years, it has been discovered that it may not
be wise to do extensive preventive maintenance on a system.
The system may actually tend to fail more often than if such
maintenance was eliminated. The Reliability Centered
Maintenance (RCM) program identifies only those preventive
maintenance tasks which will provide increased reliability
while, at the same time, reducing expenditures. The S-3A is
a shipboard based anti-submarine warfare aircraft and was
built by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation for the United States
Navy. The S-3A entered service in the mid 1970 's, well
before the current refinements to the RCM program had been
developed. As a consequence, its maintenance plan did not
embody all of the changes that today's RCM program includes,
A complete RCM analysis has never been performed on the S-3A
aircraft because excessive amounts of resources would be
required. This thesis shows where RCM can be selectively
applied to the existing S-3A maintenance programs.
Type
Thesis
Description
Series/Report No
Department
Administrative Sciences
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
Sponsors
Funder
Format
78 p.
Citation
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