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| CATEGORIES ABOUT MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND OPERATIONS | |
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The European Federation of National Maintenance Societies defines maintenance as: All actions which have as an objective to retain an item in or restore it to, a state in which it can perform the required function. The actions include the combination of all technical and corresponding administrative, managerial, and supervision actions. In Telecommunication , the term maintenance has the following meanings: 1. Any activity, such as tests, measurements, replacements, adjustments and repairs, intended to restore or retain a Functional Unit in a specified state in which the unit can perform its required Function s. 2. material , All action taken to retain material in a serviceable condition or to restore it to serviceability. It includes inspection, testing, servicing, classification as to serviceability, repair, Rebuilding , and Reclamation . 3. material , All supply and repair action taken to keep a force in condition to carry out its mission. 4. material , The routine recurring work required to keep a Facility ( Plant , building, structure, Ground facility, utility System , or other real property) in such condition that it may be continuously used, at its original or designed capacity and Efficiency for its intended purpose. Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188 and from the Department Of Defense Dictionary Of Military And Associated Terms MRO SOFTWARE In many organizations because of the number of devices or Products that need to be maintained or the complexity of those systems, there is a need to manage the information with software packages. This is particularly the case aerospace (e.g. airline fleets), military installation, large plants (e.g. manufacturing, power generation, petrochemical) and ships. These software tools aim to help engineers and technician in increasing the availability of system and reducing costs and repair times as well help to reduced material supply time and increase material availability by improving the supplier chain communication. As MRO involves working with products, an organization’s resources, supplier and customers, MRO packages have to interfaces in to many enterprise’s Business Software systems ( PLM , ERP , SCM , CRM ). One of the functions of such software is the configuration of Bill Of Material , taking the components parts list from engineering (eBOM) and manufacturing (mBOM) and updating to “as delivered” through “as maintained” to “as used”. Another is project planning logistics, for example identifying the critical path on the list of task to be carry out (inspection, diagnose, locate/order parts and service) to calculate turnaround times (TAT). Other tasks that software can perform:
Many of these tasks are address in Computerized Maintenance Management System s (CMMS) SEE ALSO
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