S9081-AB-GIB-010 (REV. 1), RELIABILITY-CENTERED MAINTENANCE (RCM) HANDBOOK (18 APR 2007)., This handbook provides Navy maintenance practitioners a reference document for applying theprinciples of Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) to the evaluation of both new and wellestablishedship planned maintenance system (PMS) preventive maintenance requirements. It isintended as a supplement to the Naval Sea Systems Command Reliability-Centered Maintenance-basedcertification program for those who develop, modify, review and authorize Planned Maintenance Systemtasks for Navy ships, systems, and equipment. The handbook introduces basic principles of maintenanceand illustrates how these principles establish rules for good maintenance tasks. It describes how theserules are used to develop maintenance requirements and associated documentation for new systems andequipment as well as to evaluate and improve the quality and effectiveness of well-establishedmaintenance programs.Requirements for analysis of preventive maintenance requirements and for development of associatedsupport documentation are defined in MIL-P-24534A, “Planned Maintenance System: development ofMaintenance Requirement Cards, Maintenance Index Pages, and Associated Documentation.”