Glossary of Terms
Practical maintenance terms, CMMS language, reliability abbreviations, and plant maintenance definitions in one place.
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Total Effective Equipment Performance
Total Effective Equipment Performance, or TEEP, measures equipment effectiveness across total calendar time by combining utilization with OEE.
Total Productive Maintenance
Total Productive Maintenance, or TPM, is a company-wide approach to improving equipment effectiveness through operator involvement, planned maintenance, quality control, training, and continuous improvement.
Traceability
Traceability is the ability to follow the history, application, location, ownership, and evidence of an asset, instrument, part, document, or maintenance activity.
Transformer Maintenance
Transformer maintenance is the inspection, testing, servicing, and condition management used to preserve safe and reliable electrical transformation.
Turnaround Maintenance
Turnaround maintenance is a large, planned facility or process outage used to complete major inspection, repair, replacement, modification, and compliance work.
Ultrasonic Testing
Ultrasonic testing uses high-frequency sound waves to detect internal flaws or measure material thickness.
Uninterruptible Power Supply Maintenance
Uninterruptible Power Supply maintenance preserves backup electrical power for critical controls, communication, safety, and process equipment.
Unplanned Downtime
Unplanned downtime is the period when equipment is unexpectedly unavailable during time it was required or scheduled to operate.
Unplanned Maintenance
Unplanned maintenance is work that begins without sufficient preparation of scope, labor, parts, tools, access, or execution method.
Utility Equipment
Utility equipment provides shared services such as electricity, steam, compressed air, water, cooling, fuel, ventilation, and waste handling.
Utility Maintenance
Utility maintenance is the inspection, servicing, repair, and improvement of systems supplying electricity, steam, air, water, cooling, fuel, and other shared services.
Validation
Validation is the confirmation, using objective evidence, that a process, method, system, or result is suitable for its intended use.
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