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Acrónimos en Inglés de uso frecuente en la literatura sobre Gestión de Activos, Mantenimiento y Confiabilidad

English Acronyms of frequent use in Asset Management, Maintenance & Reliability literature

Cuando revisamos literatura relacionada con Mantenimiento, Confiabilidad y Gestión de Activos; nos encontramos con diferentes acrónimos que son referidos en los textos. Busco recopilar estos acrónimos en la presente lista. Posteriormente espero colocar la traducción correspondiente y más adelante incluir una breve explicación. Favor notificar errores u omisiones para mejorar la lista. Gracias.

When we review texts related to Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management, we usually find different acronyms are referred. I try to collect them in the present list. Later, I expect to add the corresponding translation into Spanish and a short explanation. Please, notify mistakes or omissions in the list to improve it.

N° ACRONYM MEAN

1. 4P Place, Procedure, People, Policy

2. 4S Surroundings, Suppliers, Systems, Skills

3. 5S Surroundings, Suppliers, Systems, Skills, Safety

4. 5W Five Why

5. 5W3H Five Why Three How

6. 6M Methods, Machines, Materials, Manpower, Measurements, Mother Nature/Environment

7. 7P Product/service, Price, Place, Promotion, People, Processes, Physical evidence

8. ABC Activity Based Costing

9. ACFM Alternating Current Field Measurement

10. ACOP Approved Code of Practice

11. ACR Asset Criticality Ranking

12. ADD Acknowledged Delivery Date

13. AEO Asset Efficiency Optimization

14. AERI Accountable, Endorsement, Responsible, Informed

15. AFR Actual/Annualized/Average Failure Rate

16. AGREE Advisory Group on Reliability of Electronic Equipment

17. AHM Asset Health Management

18. AHM Asset Health Matrix

19. ALARP As Low As Reasonably Practical

20. ALCM Asset Life Cycle Management

21. ALIM Asset Lifecycle Information Management

22. ALT Accelerated Life Testing

23. AM Asset Management

24. AMC Asset Management Council (Australia)

25. AMIP Asset Management Improvement Planning

26. AML Asset Management Landscape

27. AMMS Advanced Maintenance Management System

28. AMP Asset Management Plan

29. AMS Asset Management Service

30. AMSAA Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity

31. ANOVA Analysis of variance

32. ANSI American National Standards Institute.

33. API American Petroleum Institute

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34. APL Application Parts Lists

35. APM Asset Performance Management

36. AQL Acceptable Quality Level

37. ARCI Accountable, Responsible, Consult, Informed

38. AS Australian Standard

39. ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers

40. ASNT American Society for Non-Destructive Testing

41. ASQ American Society for Quality

42. AST Aboveground Storage Tanks

43. ASTM American Society of Testing Materials

44. ASTR Accelerated Stress Testing & Reliability

45. ATA American Trucking Associations

46. AU Assets Utilization

47. AUT Automated Ultrasonic Imaging Techniques

48. AVL Approved Vendor List

49. AWS American Welding Society

50. BCM Business Continuity Management

51. BIM Building Information Modelling

52. BIT Built-in Test

53. BOK (BoK) Body of Knowledge

54. BOM (BoM) Bill Of Materials

55. BOOT Build Own Operate Transfer

56. BPM Business Process Mapping

57. BPM Business Process Management

58. BPR Business Process Reengineering

59. BS British Standard

60. BSC Balance Score Card

61. BSI British Standards Institute

62. BYOD Bring Your Own Device

63. CA Corrective Action

64. CA Criticality Analysis

65. CAFM Computer-Aided Facilities Management

66. CAIRO Consulted, Accountable, Informed, Responsible, Omitted

67. CAPA Corrective And Preventative Actions

68. CAPEX Capital Expenditure

69. CBM Condition Based Maintenance

70. CBP Current Best Practices

71. CCB Configuration Control Board

72. CCF Common Cause Failure

73. CCPM Critical Chain Project Management

74. CCPS Center for Chemical Process Safety

75. CDF Cumulative Distribution Function

76. CDP Career Development Plan

77. CEMA Conveyors Equipment Manufacturers Association

78. CI Configuration Item

79. CI Continuous Improvement

80. CIF Cost, Insurance, and Freight

81. CIPM Contracted Interface Procedures Manuals

82. CM Configuration Management

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83. CM Corrective Maintenance

84. CMAA Crane Manufacturers Association of America

85. CMMIS Computerized Maintenance Management Information System

86. CMMS Computerized Maintenance Management System

87. CMP Configuration Management Plan

88. CMRP Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional

89. CMRT Certified Maintenance and Reliability Technician

90. COD Compliance On Demand

91. COGS Cost of Goods Sold

92. CONOPS Concept of Operations

93. CPI Consumer Price Index

94. CPI Continuous Performance Improvement

95. CPM Critical Path Method

96. CSA Critical Spares Analysis

97. CSF Critical Success Factor

98. CSR Corporate Social Responsibility

99. CWA Clean Water Act

100. DBM Debottlenecking Method

101. DC Diagnostic Coverage

102. DCS Distributed Control System

103. DFM Design For Manufacturability

104. DFR Design for Reliability

105. DFW Design for Warranty

106. DHSV Downhole Safety Value

107. DILO Day-In-the-Life-Of

108. DLTL Drilling, Loading, Transportation and Leveling

109. DMAIC Design, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control

110. DMS Document Management Systems

111. DNV Det Norske Veritas

112. DOE Department of Energy

113. DOE Design Of Experiments

114. DOM Design Out Maintenance

115. DRP Distribution Requirements Planning

116. DVT Design Verification Test

117. EAM Enterprise Asset Management

118. EBITDA Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization

119. EBOM Equipment Bill Of Materials

120. EC Essential Care

121. ECCM Essential Care and Condition Monitoring

122. ECM Engineering Change Management

123. ECO Engineering Change Order

124. ECP/R Engineering Change Proposal/Request

125. ED-ISG Engineering Design – Integrated Support Group

126. EFNMS European Federation of National Maintenance Societies

127. EFQM European Foundation for Quality Management

128. EIA Electronic Industries Association

129. EIA Energy Information Administration

130. EIM Engineering Information Management

131. EIREDA European Industry Reliability Data Handbook

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132. EMP Environmental Management Plan

133. EMP Equipment Maintenance Plan

134. EMSD Electrical Maintenance Safety Device

135. EN European Standard

136. EOL End-Of-Life

137. EOQ Economic Order Quantity

138. EP Extreme Pressure

139. EPC Engineering, Procurement and Construction

140. EPCM Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management

141. EPRD Electronic Parts Reliability Data

142. ERF Equipment Redundancy Factor

143. ERP Enterprise Resource Planning

144. ERT Early Reliability Testing

145. ESD Emergency Shutdown

146. ETA Event Tree Analysis

147. ETR Equipment Trouble Report

148. EVA Economic Value Added

149. FAR Failure Analysis Report or Request

150. FARADIP Failure Rate Data In Perspective

151. FAS Free Along Side

152. FASB Financial Accounting Standards Board

153. FAT Factory Acceptance Test

154. FBM Fail Based Maintenance

155. FCA Future Corrosion Allowance

156. FEED Front Engineering End Design

157. FEL Front End Loading

158. FET Fault Event Tree

159. FF&E Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment

160. FFT Failure Finding Task

161. FI Focused Improvement

162. FIFO First-In/First Out

163. FMA Failure Mode Analysis

164. FMEA Failure Mode and Effect Analysis

165. FMECA Failure Mode, Effect and Criticality Analysis

166. FOB Free On Board

167. FRACAS Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System

168. FRB Failure Review Board

169. FTA Fault Tree Analysis

170. FTE Full Time Equivalent

171. FTM Fixed Time Maintenance

172. GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

173. GFMAM Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management

174. GMARI Global Maintenance and Reliability Indicators

175. GMC Generic Maintenance Concept

176. GSMP Gulf Society of Maintenance Professionals

177. HAZOP Hazard and Operability Analysis

178. HHM Highly Hazardous Materials

179. HIPPS High Integrity Process Protection System

180. HMP Heritage Management Plan

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181. HOL High Operating Limit

182. HP Hoshin Planning

183. HPP Homogenous Poisson Process

184. HSE Health, Safety and Environment

185. HSEQ Health, Safety and Environment and Quality

186. HVAC Heat, Ventilation and Air Conditioning

187. IAF International Accreditation Forum

188. IAM Institute of Asset Management (UK)

189. IAS International Accounting Standards

190. IASB International Accounting Standards Board

191. IAV Insured Asset Value

192. ICL Inherent Capability Loss

193. ICOMS International Conference of Maintenance Societies

194. ICR Inventory Cash Release

195. ICSS Integrated Control and Safety System

196. IDA Interface Dependency Agreements

197. IEC International Electrotechnical Commission,

198. IED Inner Exchange of Dies

199. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

200. IFRS International Financial reporting Standards

201. IIoT Industrial Internet of Things

202. ILS Integrated Logistic Support

203. IoT Internet of Things

204. IR Infrared Technology

205. IRR Internal Rate of Return

206. IRT Infrared Thermography

207. ISO International Standards Organization

208. ISSD Integrated Systems & System Design

209. IV Independent Verification

210. JIT Just In Time

211. KM Knowledge Management

212. KPI Key Performance Indicators

213. KRA Key Responsibility Areas

214. KRA Key Result Areas

215. LACTI Lead, Approve, Consulted, Tasked, Informed

216. LCAM Life Cycle Asset Management

217. LCC Life Cycle Cost

218. LCCA Life Cycle Cost Analysis

219. LCM Life Cycle Management

220. LEL Lower Explosion Limit

221. LIFO Last In, First Out

222. LOCE Loss of Control of Energy

223. LOL Lower Operating Limit

224. LORA Level of Repair Analysis

225. LOS Level Of Service

226. LOTO Lock Out & Tag Out

227. LPP Labor Plus Parts

228. LSS Lean Six Sigma

229. LTAP Long Term Asset Plan

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230. LTCO Long Term Cost of Ownership

231. LWPA Lubricant & Wear Particle Analysis

232. M&E Mechanical and Electrical

233. M&O Maintenance & Operations

234. M&R Maintenance & Reliability

235. M&TE Measuring & Testing Equipment

236. MACRO Maintenance Cost/Risk Optimization

237. MARC Maintenance And Repair Contract

238. MBW Management By Walking

239. MCA Motor Current Analysis

240. MDT Mean Downtime

241. MDTM Mean Downtime for Maintenance

242. ME Maintenance Engineering

243. MERP Maintenance Excellence and Reliability Program

244. MES Manufacturing Execution System

245. MF Main Function

246. MI Maintainability Information

247. MI Mechanical Integrity

248. MLE Maximum Likelihood Estimate

249. MMS Maintenance Management System

250. MOC Management Of Change

251. MP Maintenance Prevention

252. MPM Major Periodic Maintenance

253. MQL Minimum Quantity Lubrication

254. MRE Maintenance & Reliability Engineering

255. MRO Maintenance, Repair & Operations

256. MRP Manufacturing Resource Planning

257. MSDS Material Safety Data Sheet

258. MTBF Mean Time Between Failures

259. MTBM Mean Time Between Maintenance

260. MTBR Mean Time Between Repair

261. MTBS Mean Time Between Stops

262. MTCE Maintenance

263. MTTF Mean Time To Failure

264. MTTM Mean Time To Maintain

265. MTTR Mean Time To Repair (Restore)

266. MUT Mean Up Time

267. MWO Maintenance Work Order

268. MWR Maintenance Work Request

269. NACE National Association of Corrosion Engineers

270. NASIC North American Standard Industrial Classification

271. NDE Non Destructive Examination

272. NDT Non Destructive Testing

273. NEC National Electrical Code

274. NEMA National Electrical Manufacturers Association

275. NERC North American Electric Reliability Council

276. NFPA National Fire Protection Association

277. NLGI National Lubricating Grease Institute

278. NPF No Problem Found

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279. NPRD Non Electronic Parts Reliability Data

280. NPT Non Productive Time

281. NPV Net Present Value

282. NTP Notice To Proceed

283. NTSB National Transportation Safety Board

284. NWG Natural Work Group

285. NWIP New Work Item Proposal

286. O&M Operation and Maintenance

287. OA Oil Analysis

288. OA Opportunity Analysis

289. OAC Operator Asset Care

290. OAP Overall Asset Productivity

291. OC Operator Care

292. OCD Operational Concept Document

293. OE Operational Excellence

294. OED Outer Exchange of Dies

295. OEE Overall Equipment Effectiveness

296. OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer

297. OGA Oil & Gas Analysis

298. OH&S Occupational Health & Safety

299. OJT On the Job Training

300. OP Operating Procedure

301. OPEX Operational Expenditure

302. OPL One Point Lesson

303. OREDA ® Offshore and Onshore Reliability Data

304. ORT On-Going Reliability Test

305. OTB Operation To Breakdown

306. OTS Operator Training Simulator

307. PAM Proactive Maintenance

308. PAM Public Asset Management

309. PAS Publicly Available Specification

310. PCB Printed Circuit Board

311. PDCA Plan, Do, Check, Act

312. PDF Probability Density Function

313. PdM Predictive Maintenance

314. PDMMS PdM Management Software

315. PDPC Process Decision Program Chart

316. PEMAC Plant Engineering and Maintenance Association of Canada

317. PERI Plant Empowered Reliability Improvement

318. PERT Project Evaluation and Review Technique

319. PF Potential to Failure

320. PFD Process Flow Diagram

321. PHA Preliminary Hazard Analysis

322. PID (P&ID) Process and Instrumentation Diagram

323. PIR Post Implementation Review

324. PL Performance Level

325. PLC Programmable Logic Controller

326. PM Preventive Maintenance

327. PMA Parts Manufacturer Approval

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328. PMBOK Project Management Body Of Knowledge

329. PME Preventive Maintenance Evaluation

330. PMO Planned Maintenance Optimization

331. PMO Program Management Office

332. PO Purchase Order

333. POA Plan Of Action

334. PPE Personal Protective Equipment

335. PPM Planned Preventative Maintenance

336. PPP Private Public Partnership

337. PS Performance Standard

338. PSA Petroleum Safety Authority

339. PSD Process Shutdown

340. PSM Process Safety Management

341. PSSR Pre-Startup Safety Review

342. PSV Process Safety Valve

343. PU Parallel Unit

344. QA Quality Assurance

345. QC Quality Control

346. QFD Quality Function Deployment

347. QPM Quantitative Preventive Maintenance

348. QRA Quantitative Risk Assessment/Analysis

349. R5 Recognize, Rationalize, Ratify, Resolve, Realize

350. RA Reliability and Availability

351. RACI Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed

352. RACIA Responsible, Accountable, Consult, Informed, Approved

353. RAGAGEP Recognized And Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practice

354. RAM Reliability, Availability and Maintainability

355. RAMS Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety

356. RAMS Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Supportability

357. RAP Reliability Assessment Process

358. RASCI Responsible, Accountable, Supports, Consult, Informed

359. RASCIO Responsible, Accountable, Consult, Informed, Omitted

360. RASI Responsible, Accountable, Supported, Informed

361. RAT Rapid Action Team

362. RAV Replacement Asset Value

363. RBD Reliability Block Diagram

364. RBI Risk Based Inspection

365. RBM Risk Based Management

366. RCA Root Cause Analysis

367. RCFA Root Cause and Failure Analysis

368. RCL Reliability Centered Lubrication

369. RCM Reliability Centered Maintenance

370. RCPE Root Cause Problem Elimination

371. RCS Reliability Centered Spares

372. RDR Redesign For Reliability

373. RDS-PP Reference Designation System for Power Plants

374. RE Reliability Engineering

375. REC Routine Equipment Care

376. RFI Request for Information

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377. RFID Radio-frequency Identification

378. RFP Request For Proposal

379. RFQ Request for Quotation

380. RFT Request for Tender

381. RIAC Reliability Information Analysis Center

382. RIK Replacement In Kind

383. RIM Reliability Information Management

384. RIME Ranking Index Maintenance Expenditures

385. RMA Return Material Authorization

386. RME Reliability & Maintenance Engineering

387. ROA Return On Assets

388. ROAR Return On Asset Reliability

389. ROI Return on Investment

390. RONA Return On Net Assets

391. ROP Re-order Point

392. RORM Results Oriented Reliability and Maintenance

393. RPM Reliability, Planning & Management

394. RPN Risk Priority Number

395. RPP Reliability Program Plan

396. RTD Resistance Temperature Detector

397. RTF Run To Failure

398. RTI Risk Threshold Identification

399. RUL Remaining Useful Life

400. SAAMA South African Asset Management Association

401. SaaS Software as a Service

402. SAE Society of Automotive Engineers

403. SAMP Strategic Asset Management Plan

404. SAR Safety Analysis Report

405. SAT Site Acceptance Test

406. SBP Strategic Business Plan

407. SCM Supply Chain Management

408. SE Systems Engineering

409. SEMP Systems Engineering Management Plan

410. SFMEA Simplified Failure Mode and Effect Analysis

411. SIL Safety Integrity Level

412. SIPOC Supplier, Inputs, Process, Outputs, Customer

413. SKU Stock Keeping Unit

414. SLOT Spares and logistics Optimization Tool

415. SM Scheduled Maintenance

416. SMART Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time-bound

417. SME Small and Medium-sized Entities

418. SME Subject Matter Expert

419. SMED Single Minute Exchange of Dies

420. SMP Safety Management Plan

421. SMP Standard Maintenance Procedure

422. SMRP Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals

423. SOP Standard Operating Procedure

424. SPL Single Point Lesson

425. SSIV Subsea Isolation Valve

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426. STA Success Tree Analysis

427. STI Steel Tank Institute

428. STLE Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers

429. STO Shutdowns, Turnarounds & Outages

430. SWI Standard Work Instructions

431. SWOT Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

432. TAM Total Asset Management

433. TBN Total Base Number

434. TCO Total Cost of Ownership

435. TEAM Total Equipment Asset Management

436. TECC Technical Economic Compliance Commercial

437. TEEP Total Effective Equipment Performance

438. TLA Three-Letter Abbreviation

439. TMC Technology & Maintenance Council from ATA

440. TMP Technical Maintenance Plan

441. TOC Theory Of Constraints

442. TOFD Time-of-Flight Diffraction

443. TOPS Team Oriented Problem Solving

444. TP Task Period

445. TPM Total Productive Maintenance

446. TPS Toyota Productivity System

447. TQM Total Quality Management

448. TSR Technical Safety Requirements

449. TTF Time To Failure

450. TTR Time To Repair

451. TW Time to Wear out

452. UBM Use Based Maintenance

453. UE Ultrasonic Evaluation

454. UL Underwriters Laboratories

455. UM Unscheduled Maintenance

456. UOL Upper Operating Limit

457. UPC Universal Product Code

458. US MIL-HDBK United States Military Handbook

459. US MIL-STD United States Military Standard

460. UT Ultrasonic Testing

461. V&V Verification & Validation

462. VDM Value Driven Maintenance

463. VG Viscosity Grade

464. VI Viscosity Index

465. VITALE Value & Innovation Through Asset Lifetime Extension

466. VMRS Vehicle Maintenance Reporting Standards

467. VSM Value Stream Mapping

468. WBLT Waiting Baseline Test

469. WBS Work Breakdown Structure

470. WCM World Class Maintenance

471. WCQ World Class Quality

472. WEEE Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment

473. WEM Work Execution Management

474. WIIFM “What’s In it For Me”

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475. WIP Work In Process/Progress

476. WO Work Order

477. WOAD Worldwide Offshore Accident Databank

478. WR Work Request

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