1. Maintenance reference documents

1.1 Maintenance requirements

Maintenance covers a vast range of activities and professions common to all industrial sectors. It uses methods, techniques, practices and concepts that are enriched and formalized over time. This basic knowledge must be shared by all players, whatever their company, facility or location. It is estimated that around a third of maintenance activities are outsourced, which contributes to the dissemination of collective know-how that it is beneficial to collect in periodically updated reference documents. This is made possible by standardization, which is the ideal framework for providing a state of the art to the various stakeholders, helping them to communicate, work together and progress.

This interest in standards is fairly well...