Steve,

It was posted to answer a question here. I look forward to reading through you papper.

Clarification: From previous posts, the PMO gives a lot of operator-based tasks. Why is this so? It looks like the result is skewed towards operations rather than maintenance.

Josh,
Neither PMO nor RCM "give" tasks to operators... both processes define the failiure modes and work out what is the best action to defend the organisation when that failure mode begins to happen or has happened. If it turns out that the operators can provide the best defense, then the task will be an operator task, if not the task will go to some other team or there will be no defense at all (No scheduled maintenance). In my case studies, it just looks like PMO shifts a lot of tasks to operators - this is becaue people underestimate the amount of "maintenance" operators do.
Regards
Steve

Ok then, is it not because of the PMO analyst background from operations?

Perhaps RCM pros want to show the end results of their analysis to see how many will be maintenance or operation tasks.