Common CMMS, Maintenance, & Reliability Acronyms
A
- ACR: Asset Criticality Ranking
- API: Application Program Interface
C
- CAMA: Certified Asset Management Assessor
- CBM: Condition-Based Monitoring
- CI: Continuous Improvement
- CIP: Continuous Improvement Process (or Clean In Place)
- CMMS: Computerized Maintenance Management System
- CMRP: Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional
- CMRT: Certified Maintenance & Reliability Technician
E
- EAM: Enterprise Asset Management
- EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
- ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning
F
- FAMS: Facilities Asset Management System
- FMEA: Failure Mode & Effects Analysis
G
- GIS: Geographic Information System
H
- HSE: Health, Safety & Environmental
I
- IIoT: Industrial Internet of Things
J
K
- KPI: Key Performance Indicator
L
- LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (Windows)
M
- MESA: Maintenance Excellence Status Assessment
- MP2: Maintenance Pack II
- MRO: Maintenance, Repair & Operations
- MRP: Material Requirements Planning / Manufacturing Resource Planning
- MTBF: Mean Time Between Failure
- MTTR: Mean Time To Repair
- MVP: Most Valuable Player
O
- OEE: Overall Equipment Effectiveness
- OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer
- OLE: Object Linking & Embedding
- OPC: OLE for Process Control
- OPC UA: OPC Unified Architecture
- OSHA: Occupational Safety & Health Administration
P
- PdM: Predictive Maintenance
- PLC: Programmable Logic Controller
- PM: Preventive Maintenance or Preventative Maintenance
- PPM: Proactive Preventive Maintenance
R
- RCA: Root Cause Analysis
- RCM: Reliability Centered Maintenance
- RIME: The Ranking Index for Maintenance Expenditures (RIME) Priority Number provides an alternative work prioritization method.
- RTF: Run To Failure
S
- SMRP: Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals
- SOP: Standard Operating Procedure
T
- TPM: Total Productive Maintenance
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