Glossary of Terms
Practical maintenance terms, CMMS language, reliability abbreviations, and plant maintenance definitions in one place.
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Asset Hierarchy
An asset hierarchy organizes maintainable assets into parent and child levels so teams can understand where equipment belongs and summarize maintenance information at different levels.
Asset Lifecycle Management
Asset lifecycle management is the coordinated management of an asset from need and acquisition through operation, maintenance, improvement, renewal, and disposal.
Asset Location
Asset location identifies the physical place where equipment is installed, stored, or used.
Asset Master Data
Asset master data is the controlled core information used to identify, classify, locate, maintain, and report on assets consistently.
Asset Performance Management
Asset Performance Management, or APM, is the coordinated use of data, maintenance, reliability, condition, and risk information to improve asset outcomes.
Asset Register
An asset register is the controlled list of equipment, systems, and maintainable items for which an organization needs identification, ownership, maintenance, and lifecycle records.
Asset Tagging
Asset tagging is the assignment of a unique physical and digital identifier to equipment so users can reliably find, report, inspect, and maintain the correct asset.
Asset Utilization
Asset utilization is the percentage of available or potential asset capacity that is actually used during a defined period.
Audit Trail
An audit trail is a chronological record showing what information or status changed, when it changed, and which authorized user performed the action.
Automated Work Order Generation
Automated work order generation creates maintenance work from approved schedules, meter thresholds, conditions, events, or expiry rules.
Autonomous Maintenance
Autonomous maintenance is a TPM practice in which trained equipment operators perform defined routine care, inspection, cleaning, and early-abnormality detection.
Backlog Prioritization
Backlog prioritization is the process of ranking approved maintenance work according to risk, urgency, asset criticality, age, and business impact.
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