Abstract
Failure is defined in the BS Maintenance Glossary as ‘The termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function.’ This can involve such failure categories as follows:
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Catastrophic failures which result in an immediate inability of a system to achieve its function;
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Performance failures associated with a reducing performance of the equipment.
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When the operator deliberately takes the equipment out of service, even though it is producing, at that time, its specified output.
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Collacott, R.A. (1977). Failure types, investigation and occurrences. In: Mechanical Fault Diagnosis and condition monitoring. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5723-7_1
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