Submitted by rporteous on November 13, 2007 - 11:47.
In the paper titled Identifying Failure Modes Retrospectively Using RCM Data, by J. Sikorska (Imes Australia Pty Ltd), L. Hammond (DSTO) and P. Kelly (CASWA Pty Ltd) show that it is possible to retrospectively improve the quality of failure histories stored in computerised maintenance management systems (CMMS). Here is a copy of the summary from the paper;