Glossary

Advanced Text Modification System (ATMS): A 1980s mainframe computer text editing software in widespread use at that time.
Age exploration: Systematic, planned examination of the most aged members of an installed in service population to validate expected aging performance.
AP-913: Equipment Reliability Process Description (INPO).
Applicable and effective: Technically correct and effective (e.g., works in a real production environment) and cost effective to perform compared to acceptable alternatives. Acceptability weighs social and cultural values including value of life, and the environment.
Applications: A component applied template or software.
Applied template: The applied counterpart to a generic template, where only expressed failure modes are used (applied) from a smorgasbord of alternative selections. The generic template is like a crime composite; it reflects all possible failures averaged into a common melting pot. The applied template seeks to extract and refine details again.
Applied templates: The various features of a component generic template model that have been selected to apply to a component tag number in a real plant creating a real equipment context.
Appropriate frequencies: Frequencies that reflect service and failure mechanism. These differ from manufacturer recommended frequencies primarily in that they operate only part time, on average, while manufacturers assume they run full time.
As builts (as built drawings): The final plant construction drawings that summarize how the plant was actually physically completed.
Associated equipment: An equipment tag in a primary association equipment group. For example, in an instrument loop, a transmitter may serve as the tag. All other...

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