Maintenance policies can be broadly

Maintenance policies can be broadly categorised as being either technology (systems, or
engineering) oriented, human factors management oriented or monitoring and inspection oriented, reliability centered maintenance (RCM) – where reliability of machines is emphasised – failing in the first category, total productivemaintenance (TPM) – a human factors based technique in which maintainability is emphasised – failing the second, and condition based maintenance (CBM) – in which availability based on inspection and follow- up is emphasised – failing in the third. The proposed approach here is different fromthe above in that it offers a decision map adaptive to the collected data, which suggests the appropriate use of RCM, TPM, and CBM