2. Maintenance in operational condition (MCO)

Maintenance is one of the main levers for improving the overall performance of industrial systems . The stakes are high in an organization (military or civilian) where several fleets of equipment coexist, often off-center from one another. In concrete terms, they are expressed at the level of the complex production execution system by the concept of maintenance in operational condition (MCO), which must guarantee, throughout the operating phase, the minimum contractual availability (the contract links the project owner and the prime contractor). As this phase can be lengthy (e.g. 25 years for certain military equipment, 40 years for railways, and...