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REVISED RELIABILITY CENTRED MAINTENANCE STRATEGY PROPOSED FOR AUTONOMOUS VESSELS

Reliability centred maintenance (RCM) is a strategy that is likely to be adopted for autonomous shipping and may have broader applicability, but a recent study identified important limitations that need to be addressed.

Stig Eriksen, a PhD student at the University of Southern Denmark, evaluated the development requirements of RCM programs, comparing the needs of a typical manned ship with those of an unmanned vessel.

Reliability centred maintenance (RCM) is a strategy that is likely to be adopted for autonomous shipping and may have broader applicability, but a recent study identified important limitations that need to be addressed.

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