本SAE以可靠性为中心的维修（RCM）标准适用于拥有或使用其希望负责管理的物理资产或系统的任何组织。RCM是一个特定的过程，用于确定必须实施的策略，以管理在给定操作环境下可能导致任何物理资产功能故障的故障模式。本文件旨在评估任何声称为RCM流程的流程，以确定其是否为真正的RCM流程。本文件通过规定流程成为RCM流程必须具备的最低特征来支持此类评估。

This SAE Standard for Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is intended for use by any organization that has or makes use of physical assets or systems that it wishes to manage responsibly.RCM is a specific process used to identify the policies which must be implemented to manage the failure modes which could cause the functional failure of any physical asset in a given operating context. This document is intended to be used to evaluate any process that purports to be an RCM process, in order to determine whether it is a true RCM process. This document supports such an evaluation by specifying the minimum characteristics that a process must have in order to be an RCM process.