Glossary of Terms
Practical maintenance terms, CMMS language, reliability abbreviations, and plant maintenance definitions in one place.
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Maintenance Work Center
A maintenance work center is an organizational unit representing a team, trade, workshop, shift, contractor group, or capacity pool responsible for maintenance work.
Maintenance Work Management
Maintenance work management is the end-to-end process for identifying, approving, planning, scheduling, executing, completing, and reviewing maintenance work.
Maintenance Work Package
A maintenance work package is the complete set of information and resources prepared for executing a maintenance job or group of related jobs.
Maintenance Workflow
A maintenance workflow is the defined sequence of statuses, decisions, responsibilities, approvals, and actions used to process maintenance work.
Maintenance-Induced Failure
A maintenance-induced failure is an equipment problem caused or accelerated by incorrect, incomplete, excessive, or poorly controlled maintenance activity.
Major Overhaul
A major overhaul is an extensive planned restoration in which equipment is disassembled, inspected, repaired, renewed, tested, and returned to a defined performance standard.
Management of Change
Management of Change is the controlled process used to assess, approve, implement, document, and review changes that could affect safety, quality, environment, reliability, or compliance.
Manufacturer Master Data
Manufacturer master data is the controlled list of equipment and component manufacturers used across asset, part, warranty, and vendor records.
Material Reservation
A material reservation allocates available spare parts or materials to a specific maintenance job so they are not consumed by unrelated work.
Mean Maintenance Cost
Mean Maintenance Cost is the average maintenance cost per defined maintenance event during a selected period.
Mean Time Between Failures
Mean Time Between Failures, or MTBF, is the average operating time between failures of a repairable asset during a defined period.
Mean Time Between Maintenance
Mean Time Between Maintenance is the average operating time between maintenance events, including corrective and selected preventive interventions.
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