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AAC

Air Carbon Arc Cutting

ABM

Activity Based Management

AC

Arc Cutting

AFIM

Association Française des Ingénieurs de Maintenance

AFNOR

Association Française de Normalisation

AISI

American Iron and Steel Institute

AMT

Autonomous Manufacturing Team

API

American Petroleum Institute

APM

Asset Productive Management

APS

Atmospheric plasma spraying

ASME

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASP

Application Service Provider

ATE

Automatic Test Equipment

AW

Arc Welding

AWS

American Welding Society

BAT

Best Available Technology

BCM

Business Centred Maintenance

BITE

Build-in Test Equipment

BPR

Business Process Re-engineering

BS

British Standards Institution

B2B

Business-to-Business

CAFM

Computer Aides Facility Management

CALM

Collaborative Asset Lifecycle Management

CAMM

Computer Aided Maintenance Management

CAPE

China Association of Plant Engineering

CAV/RAV

Current/Replacement Asset Value

CBM

Condition Based Maintenance

CBIT

Continuous Built-in Test

CBR-ES

Case Based Reasoning Expert System

CEN

European Committee for Standardization

CFC

Chlorofluorocarbone

CI

Cast Iron

CIM

Computer Integrated Manufacturing

CIO

Collaboration. Integration and Optimization

CIMS

Computerised Inspection System

CM

Corrective Maintenance

CM&D

Condition Monitoring and Diagnostics

CMM

Collaborative Manufacturing Management

CMMS

Computerised Maintenance Management System

CMT

Corrective Maintenance Time

COPQ

Cost Of Poor Quality

COTS

Commercial-Off-the-Shelf

CRM

Customer Relationship Management

DCS

Digital Control System

DEPR

Decentralised Equipment and Process Responsibility

DIN

Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V.

DIN

Deutsche Industrie-Norm

DIS

Draft International Standard

DT

Down Time

EAI

Enterprise Application Integration

EAM

Enterprise Asset Management

EDM

Electronic Document Management

EDT

External Disabled Time

ECM

Enterprise Content Management

EFNMS VZW

European Federation of National Maintenance Societies VZW

EMAS

Eco-Management and Audit Schema (EU)

e-MRO

electronic maintenance, repair and operations purchasing

EMS

Environmental Management System

e-PAM

electronic Plant Asset Management

ERP

Enterprise Resource Planning

ES

Expert System

e-TEAM

e-Total Enterprise Asset Management

EVA

Economic Value Added

FAM

Functionally Autonomous Module

FDMES

Fault Diagnosis and Maintenance Expert System

FFT

Fast Fourier Transform Algorithm

FLSP

Flame Spraying

FM

Facility Management

FMA

Failure Mode Analysis

FMEA

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis

FMECA

Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis

FTA

Fault Tree Analysis

GMAW

Gas Metal Arc Welding

GMAW-P

Gas Metal Arc Welding - Pulsed Arc

GMAW-S

Gas Metal Arc Welding - Short Circuit Arc

GPS

Global Positioning System

GTAW

Gas Tungsten Arc Welding

HAZOPS

Hazard in Operation Study

HCFC

Hydrochlorofluoro-carbon

HEG

Homogeneous Equipment Group

HTML

Hyper-Text Markup Language

HVAC

Heating, Ventilating, Air-Conditioning

HVOF

High speed flame spraying

IAM

Industrial Asset Management

IBIT

Interruptive Built-in Test

IBR

Inspection Based Risk

ICI

Imperial Chemical Industries

IEC

International Electrotechnical Commission

ILS

Integrated Logistic Support

IMS

Intelligent Manufacturing System

IPM

Integrated PEST Management

IR

Infra Red

ISA

International Federation of the National Standardizing Associations

ISO

International Organization for Standardization

IT

Information Technology

IT

Idle Time

ITRAM

Information Technology and Remote Asset Management

JIPM

Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance

KPI

Key Performance Indicator

LBW

Laser Beam Welding

LCA

Life Cycle Analyse

LCC

Life Cycle Cost

LCCA

Life Cycle Cost Analysis

LCE

Life Cycle Engineering

LCM

Life Cycle Management

LCP

Life Cycle Profit

LD

Letal Dose

LM

Lean Management

LORA

Level of Repair Analysis

LSC

Life Support Cost

LTC

Life Termination Cost

LUC

Life Unavailability Cost

MDT

Mean Down Time

MBO

Management By Objective

MBR

Maintenance Based Risk

MCR

Maintenance Centred Reliability

MFS

Maintenance and Facility Management Society of Switzerland

MIB

Management Information Base

MIG

Metal Inert Gas

MMA

Manual Metal Arc

MNA

Maintenance Need Analysis

MORT

Management Oversight Risk Tree

MPA

Maintenance Planning Analysis

MPI

Maintenance Performance Indicator

MRO

Maintenance, Repair and Operations

MRO

Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul

MRP

Material Resource Planning

MSDS

Material Safety Data Sheet

MTBF

Mean Time Between Failure

MTBR

Mean Time To Repair

MTTA (Contractor)

Mean Time To Attend

MTTF

Mean Time To Failure

MTTM

Mean Time To Maintenance

MTTR

Mean Time To Repair

MWT (contractor)

Mean Waiting Time

NRqT

Non-Required Time

ODHS

Operational Data Historian System

OFC-A

Oxyacetylene cutting

OEE

Overall Equipment Effectiveness

O&M

Operation and Maintenance

OMETA

Operations, Maintenance, Engineering Support, Training and Administration

OOP

Object Oriented Programming

OTBF

Operating Time Between Failures

PAM

Plant Asset Management

PAR

Performance, Availability and Reliability

PAS

Process Automation System

PBS

Performance Based Specification

PC

Personal Computer

PCM

Predictive Condition Monitoring

PDA

Personal Digital Assistant

PDM

Predictive Maintenance

PHM

Proportional Hazards method

PIMS

Plant Information Management System

PLC

Programmable Logic Controller

PM

Preventive Maintenance

PMO

Plant Maintenance Optimization

PMT

Preventive Maintenance Time

POST

Power On Self Test

PPE

Personnel Protective Equipment

PSA

Probabilistic Safety Analysis

PTAW

Plasma Transferred Arc Welding

QA

Quality Assurance

QRA

Qualitative Risk Assessment

RAM

Reliability, Availability and Maintenance

RAMS

Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety

RBI

Risk Based Inspection

RCM

Reliability Centred Maintenance

RFID

Radio Frequency Identification

RFP

Request for Proposal

ROCE

Return On Capital Employed

ROA

Return On Asset

ROE

Return On Equity

ROI

Return on Investment

RONA

Return On Net Asset

RqT

Requires Time

RT

Real Time

RTG

Resistance To Ground

SAE

Society of Automotive Engineers

SAW

Submerged Arc Welding

SBT

Standby Time

SCC

Supply Chain Control

SHE

Safety, Health and Environment

SMEs

Small and Medium Enterprises

SMAW

Shielded Metal Arc Welding

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol (Internet Protocol)

SMTP

Simple Mail Transport Protocol (Internet Protocol)

SPC

Statistical Process Control

SQC

Statistical Quality Control

SQL

Structured Query Language

STTE

Special to Type Test Equipment

TBM

Time Based Management

TBF

Time Between failures

TCA

Total Cost of Assets

TCO

Total Cost of Ownership

TEAM

Total Equipment Asset Management

TEAM

Total Enterprise Asset Management

THERP

Technique for Human Error Rate Prediction

THSP

Thermal Spraying

TIG

Tungsten Inert Gas

TPAM

Total Productive Asset Management

TPM

Total Productive Maintenance

TPM

Total Production Maintenance

TQM

Total Quality Management

TTA

Time To Attend

TTR

Time To Repair

UT

Up Time

VDM

Value Driven Maintenance

VOC

Volatile Organic compound

WCM

World Class Manufacturing

WHO

World Health Organization

WM

Wear-Management

WO

Work Order

WT

Waiting Time

XML

eXtended Markup Language

French

ACV

Analyse de cycle de vie

AFIM

Association Française des Ingénieurs de Maintenance

AFNOR

Association Française de Normalisation

AMDEC

Analyse des modes de défaillance, de leurs effets et de leur criticité

BS

British Standards Institution

CAPE

China Association of Plant Engineering

CBM

Maintenance conditionnelle

CEN

Comité Européen de Normalisation

DIN

Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V.

EFNMS VZW

European Federation of National Maintenance Societies VZW

FM

Facility Management

GMAO

Gestion de la Maintenance Assistée par Ordinateur

ISO

Organisation internationale de normalisation

JIPM

Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance

LCE

Life Cycle Engineering

MBF

Maintenance basée sur la fiabilité

MFS

Maintenance and Facility Management Society of Switzerland

NBN

Normes Belges normalisées

NTIC

Nouvelles Technologies de l'information et de la Communication

OT

Ordre de travail

REX

Retour d'expérience

TPM

Total Productive Maintenance

TQM

Total Quality Management

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