Commentary: Reliability-Centered Maintenance: A Tool for Optimizing Medical Device Maintenance.
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RCM: Tool for Optimizing Device Maintenance 2016 After many years of inconclusive discussions about the role of planned (or what has traditionally been referred to as preventive) maintenance (PM) in keeping medical equipment safe, the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) announced its support for a new project in October 2015. The association stated that it would begin exploring whether an approach known as reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) should be adopted on a wider scale throughout the field of healthcare technology management (HTM). RCM was pioneered in the 1950s by the civil aviation industry as a way to reduce the cost of maintaining aircraft. The approach found success, playing a key role in making it economically feasible to bring the first jumbo jets into successful commercial service. Although the original motivation for this new approach was business economics, it was soon discovered that these new maintenance strategies had a considerable and unexpectedly positive effect on the reliability of aircraft. Consequently, during the latter part of the last century, virtually all of the nation’s high-reliability industries, including NASA, the military, the aerospace industry, nuclear submarine industry, and nuclear power industry, among others, switched over to these new, very effective, and highly efficient practices. Although healthcare technology is now regarded as part of the high-reliability sector, the embryonic HTM community at that time did not adopt any of these changes. It is disappointing to report that we will almost certainly be the last of the high-reliability technology sectors to adopt RCM’s modern scientific methods. It is way past time for us to move on and abandon the outdated maintenance practices of the last century.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Biomedical instrumentation & technology
دوره 50 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016