Glossary of Terms
Practical maintenance terms, CMMS language, reliability abbreviations, and plant maintenance definitions in one place.
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Magnetic Particle Testing
Magnetic particle testing detects surface and near-surface discontinuities in ferromagnetic materials.
Maintainability
Maintainability is the ability of an asset to be inspected, serviced, diagnosed, repaired, and restored within a required time using defined resources and procedures.
Maintenance Analytics
Maintenance analytics is the structured analysis of maintenance, asset, condition, cost, labor, parts, and production data to improve decisions.
Maintenance Audit
A maintenance audit is a structured review of maintenance controls, records, execution, asset condition, and evidence to determine whether requirements are defined and consistently followed.
Maintenance Backlog
Maintenance backlog is approved maintenance work that has not yet been completed, commonly measured by job count, estimated labor hours, age, risk, or weeks of available labor capacity.
Maintenance Budget Variance
Maintenance budget variance is the difference between planned maintenance spending and actual spending during a defined period.
Maintenance Calendar
A maintenance calendar is a time-based view of scheduled preventive, inspection, calibration, shutdown, contract, and corrective work.
Maintenance Capacity Planning
Maintenance capacity planning determines how much labor and skill availability exists for planned work during a future period.
Maintenance Contract
A maintenance contract is a formal agreement defining the scope, service levels, responsibilities, pricing, evidence, and commercial conditions for maintenance services.
Maintenance Cost
Maintenance cost is the total financial value of labor, parts, contractors, services, consumables, and other resources used to maintain assets.
Maintenance Cost as Percentage of Replacement Asset Value
Maintenance Cost as a Percentage of Replacement Asset Value compares annual maintenance spending with the estimated current cost of replacing the asset base.
Maintenance Cost per Asset
Maintenance Cost per Asset is the total maintenance spending assigned to an individual asset or defined asset population during a period.
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