Glossary
CWA-RBIM risk- and reliability-based maintenance method

Consequence of failure

The results of the failure expressed, for example, in terms of impacts on personnel safety, economic losses and environmental damage.

Corrective maintenance

Maintenance carried out after a breakdown has been detected and designed to restore an asset to a condition in which it can perform a required function.

Inspection

Periodic activity used to assess the progress of damage to a component. Inspections can be carried out by technical means (non-destructive testing) or by visual examination.

Maintenance

All technical, administrative and management actions during the life cycle of an asset, designed to maintain or restore it to a state in which it can perform the required function.

Preventive maintenance

Maintenance performed at predetermined intervals or according to prescribed criteria,...