TABLE OF CONTENTS The following abbreviations and acronyms have been used in the book.
| Term | Full Expression | Refer also to |
|---|---|---|
| AGAN | As Good As New | |
| AIDS | Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome | |
| ALARP | As Low As Reasonably Practicable | |
| BSE | Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy | |
| CAPEX | Capital Expenditure | |
| CJD | Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease | |
| CMMS | Computerized Maintenance Management System | |
| ESD | Emergency Shutdown | |
| FBD | Functional Block Diagram | IDEF |
| FCA | Failure Characteristic Analysis | |
| FMEA | Failure Modes and Effects Analysis | |
| FPSO | Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel | |
| FTA | Fault Tree Analysis | |
| HAZOP | Hazard And Operability Study | |
| HSE | Health and Safety Executive | |
| ICAM | Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing | |
| IDEF | Icam-DEFinition | ICAM |
| JIP | Joint Industry Project | |
| J-T | Joule-Thomson | |
| KISS | Keep It Simple, Stupid! | |
| MLE | Maximum Likelihood Estimator | |
| MTBF | Mean Operating Time Between Failures | MTTF, MTTR |
| MTTF | Mean Time To Failure | MTBF, MTTR |
| MTTR | Mean Time To Restore | MTTF,MTBF |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | |
| NPSH | Net Positive Suction Head | |
| OIM | Offshore Installation Manager | |
| OPEX | Operating Expenditure | |
| OREDA | Offshore Reliability Data | |
| | Probability Density Function | |
| PRV | Pressure Relief Valve | PSV |
| PSV | Pressure Safety Valve | PRV |
| PTW | Permit To Work | |
| RBD | Reliability Block Diagram | |
| RCA | Root Cause Analysis | |
| RCM | Reliability Centered Maintenance | FMEA, FCA |
| SMS | Safety Management System | |
| TNT | Trinitrotoluene | |
| TPM | Total Productive Maintenance |
