Notice of RetractionReliability and risk treatment centred maintenance

Notice of Retraction

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The paper brings a proposal of new methodology for application of well-known tools - RCM, RBI and SIFpro - with the aim to treat risks by means of suitable maintenance. The basis of the new methodology is the proposal of complex application of all three methods at the same time and not separately as typical today. The proposed methodology suggests having just one managing team for Reliability and Risk Treatment Centred Maintenance (RRTCM) employing existing RCM, RBI, and SIFpro tools concurrently. This approach allows for significant reduction of engineering activities´ duration. In the proposed methodology these activities are staged into 5 phases and structured in order to eliminate all duplicities resulting from separate application of the three tools. The newly proposed methodology saves 45% to 50% of the engineering workload and adequate significant financial savings.