Application & development of Reliability-centered Maintenance (RCM) in China's nuclear energy field

Reliability-centered Maintenance (RCM), as a kind of important technology in the industry maintenance field around the world, can be applied to improve the equipment reliability & availability and reduce operating & maintenance costs. RCM was introduced in China's nuclear energy field in 1998 and has been applied widely by now. This article introduced the application of RCM and analyzed the performance brought by RCM in domestic nuclear power energy field. The simplified RCM and the optimized RCM was introduced with practical experience and on the basis of adequacies analysis of the classical RCM.