Glossary

Accelerated life testing: Testing to verify design reliability of machinery/equipment much sooner than if operating typically. This is intended especially for new technology, design changes, and ongoing development.
Acceptance test (Qualification test): A test to determine machinery/equipment conformance to the qualification requirements in its equipment specifications.
Accessibility: The amount of working space available around a component sufficient to diagnose, troubleshoot, and complete maintenance activities safely and effectively. Provision must be made for movement of necessary tools and equipment with consideration for human ergonomic limitations.
Allocation: The process by which a top-level quantitative requirement is assigned to lower hardware items/subsystems in relation to system-level reliability and maintainability goals.
Assets: The physical resources of a business, such as a plant facility, fleets, or their parts or components.
Asset management: The systematic planning and control of a physical resource throughout its economic life.
Availability: The probability that a system or piece of equipment will, when used under specified conditions, operate satisfactorily and effectively. Also, the percentage of time or number of occurrences for which a product will operate properly when called upon.
CBM: See Condition-based maintenance.
Changeout: Remove a component or part and replace it with a new or rebuilt one.
CMMS: Computerized maintenance management system.
Component: A constituent part of an asset, usually modular or replaceable, that is serialized and interchangeable.
Concept: Basic idea or generalization.
Condition-based maintenance: Maintenance based on the measured condition of an asset.
Confidence limit: An indication of the degree of confidence one can place in...

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