Downtime Terminology

Downtime


Stop, Start, and Pending


Unassigned


Counts as a stop


User Functions


Causes and Equipment


Detail Codes


Incident, Scheduled, and Circumstance


MTBF

Mean Time Between Failure. This is the predicted elapsed time between inherent failures of a mechanical or electronic system, during normal system operation. See more here.

Reliability

How reliable is the system, in other words what is the percentage of up-time versus unscheduled down-time.

Utilization

How is the system utilized, in other words what is the percentage of the up-time of the system versus all types of downtime.

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