The methodology of Reliability-Centered Maintenance combine practices and theoretical finds from the Field of Reliability Engineering to design, in a systematic and rational way, maintenance programs focused on the functions of the systems instead of their components. This dissertation presents an application of the basic principles of RCM methodology to the revision of FURNAS Centrais Elétricas’s switchs’ maintenance program. The aim of this application is to verify the adaptation of RCM methodology to high voltage electrical equipaments. The results achieved suggests that RCM is a universally applicable methodology but management must be sure that benefits are greater than costs before to decide to apply this methodology to a particular installation.