What is reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) and how does it differ from traditional preventive maintenance?
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A
RCM replaces all maintenance with reactive repairs after failure
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B
RCM is a structured methodology for determining the most appropriate maintenance strategy for each asset based on failure modes and consequences, rather than applying uniform time-based PM to all equipment
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C
RCM focuses only on critical life-safety systems and ignores all other assets
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D
RCM is a software system used to track maintenance work orders