Glossary of Terms
Practical maintenance terms, CMMS language, reliability abbreviations, and plant maintenance definitions in one place.
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Maintenance Route
A maintenance route is an organized sequence of inspections, lubrication points, readings, or tasks performed across multiple assets or locations.
Maintenance Schedule Compliance
Maintenance schedule compliance is the percentage of maintenance tasks scheduled for a defined period that were completed within the agreed schedule window.
Maintenance Scheduler
A maintenance scheduler assigns ready work to dates, shifts, teams, and technicians according to priority, capacity, access, and production plans.
Maintenance Scheduling
Maintenance scheduling is the process of assigning ready maintenance work to specific dates, shifts, teams, or technicians based on priority, labor, access, and production availability.
Maintenance Shift Handover
Maintenance shift handover is the structured transfer of active work, asset condition, risk, permits, and priorities between outgoing and incoming shifts.
Maintenance Standard Operating Procedure
A maintenance standard operating procedure, or SOP, defines the approved process, responsibilities, controls, and records for performing a recurring maintenance activity.
Maintenance Strategy
A maintenance strategy is the selected combination of preventive, condition-based, predictive, corrective, and run-to-failure actions used to manage asset risk.
Maintenance Supervisor
A maintenance supervisor coordinates daily maintenance execution, people, priorities, safety, quality, and work-order completion.
Maintenance Task List
A maintenance task list is an ordered set of actions, checks, measurements, or tests required to complete a maintenance job.
Maintenance Team
A maintenance team is an organized group responsible for defined assets, trades, areas, shifts, or maintenance services.
Maintenance Technician
A maintenance technician inspects, diagnoses, services, repairs, tests, and records work on industrial or facility assets.
Maintenance Window
A maintenance window is an approved period when equipment or an area is available for planned maintenance work.
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