Talk:Reliability centred maintenance

The two articles on RCM and Reliability centered maintenance should be joined. RCM is a specific methodology of reliability centered maintenance. The Reliability centered maintenance article even states that fact. The Reliability centered maintenance article is a goood start for a background section for the RCM article. James9becker 18:13, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

I absolutely agree. The really can't see any justification for these 2 issues to be separate Strand3d 11:36, 24 January 2007 (UTC) Opm

I totally agree after all the only difference between the two articles is that one (Centred) is spelt correctly the other isn't

I don't agree at all. The correctly spelt article is a better introduction and explains the history more thoroughly. Many people who study or use RCM incorrectly assume that Moubray invented it. He 'popularised' it, but as is correctly pointed out the term was first coined by Nowlan et al. Iw ould dearly love to get hold of a PDF of Nowlan & Heap's original paper.. any ideas?? What is missing from the article is a key finding of RCM, that regular scheduled maintenance can actually decrease the reliability of machinery.. do to the intrusion. I don't mean to criticise the author.. it's a good start.

I vote that the articles be merged. As to the spelling, I interpret the Manual of Style as saying that the British spelling should be the primary page because it's first post is 2005 and the American spelling - though longer - is 2006. Eassin 20:37, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

As a practitioner of RCM I see no value in having the two separate. The "correct" spelling is a matter of which continent you reside in. Nowlan and Heap, in their report that got it all started, called it, "reliability-centered maintenance" (they were Americans). James Reyes-Picknell, Canada