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Failure Protective Devices Fail-Safe: Potential Failure - A Term Used in

Potential, hidden, and functional failures are terms used in reliability centered maintenance to describe equipment conditions. Predictive maintenance uses condition monitoring to determine when maintenance is needed, allowing tasks to be performed only when warranted for cost savings over routine preventive maintenance. Preventive maintenance maintains equipment in satisfactory operating condition through systematic inspection and correction of issues before failures occur. Corrective maintenance identifies, isolates, and fixes faults so failed equipment can be restored to operational condition. Planned preventive maintenance involves scheduled service visits by a competent agent to ensure equipment is working correctly and avoid unscheduled downtime.

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Failure Protective Devices Fail-Safe: Potential Failure - A Term Used in

Potential, hidden, and functional failures are terms used in reliability centered maintenance to describe equipment conditions. Predictive maintenance uses condition monitoring to determine when maintenance is needed, allowing tasks to be performed only when warranted for cost savings over routine preventive maintenance. Preventive maintenance maintains equipment in satisfactory operating condition through systematic inspection and correction of issues before failures occur. Corrective maintenance identifies, isolates, and fixes faults so failed equipment can be restored to operational condition. Planned preventive maintenance involves scheduled service visits by a competent agent to ensure equipment is working correctly and avoid unscheduled downtime.

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Potential Failure - a term used in Reliability Centered Maintenance.

An identifiable condition which indicates that a functional failure is either about to occur, or in the process of occurring.

Hidden Failure - a failure which, on its own, does not become evident to the operating crew under normal circumstances. Typically, protective devices which are not fail-safe (examples could include standby plant and equipment, emergency systems etc.) Functional Failure - Used in Reliability Centered Maintenance terminology. The inability of an item of equipment to fulfil one or more of its functions. Interchangeably used with Failure.

MAINTENANCE Predictive maintenance (PdM) techniques help determine the condition of in-service equipment in order to predict when maintenance should be performed. This approach offers cost savings over routine or time-based preventive maintenance, because tasks are performed only when warranted. Preventive maintenance (PM) has the following meanings: 1. The care and servicing by personnel for the purpose of maintaining equipment and facilities in satisfactory operating condition by providing for systematic inspection, detection, and correction of incipient failures either before they occur or before they develop into major defects. 2. Maintenance, including tests, measurements, adjustments, and parts replacement, performed specifically to prevent faults from occurring.

Corrective maintenance is a maintenance task performed to identify, isolate, and rectify a fault so that the failed equipment, machine, or system can be restored to an operational condition within the tolerances or limits established for in-service operations.

Planned Preventive Maintenance ('PPM') or more usual just simple Planned Maintenance (PM) or Scheduled Maintenance is any variety of scheduled maintenance to an object or item of equipment. Specifically, Planned Maintenance is a scheduled service visit carried out by a competent and suitable agent, to ensure that an item of equipment is operating correctly and to therefore avoid any unscheduled breakdown and downtime.

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