National foreword

This British Standard is the UK implementation of EN 13306:2017. It supersedes BS EN 13306:2010, which is withdrawn.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee DS/1, Dependability.

A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its secretary.

This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application.

Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations.

This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 January 2018.

This European Standard was approved by CEN on 16 July 2017.

CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CEN member.

This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the same status as the official versions.

CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom.

European foreword

This document (EN 13306:2017) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 319 “Maintenance”, the secretariat of which is held by UNI.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by May 2018, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by May 2018.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

This document supersedes EN 13306:2010.

Annex F provides details of significant technical changes between this European Standard and the previous edition EN 13306:2010.

According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

Introduction

The purpose of this European Standard is to define the generic terms used for all types of maintenance and maintenance management irrespective of the type of item considered. Maintenance of the only software is not covered in this standard. However, maintenance of items and systems containing software is considered. Self-sufficient terms are not defined in this standard.

It is the responsibility of any maintenance management to define its maintenance strategy according to the following main objectives:

to ensure the availability of the item to function as required, at optimum costs;
to consider the safety, the persons, the environment and any other mandatory requirements associated with the item;
to consider any impact on the environment;
to uphold the durability of the item and/or the quality of the product or service provided considering costs.

As a part of the requirement of CEN/TC 319 it was necessary to produce a comprehensive structured generic maintenance vocabulary standard containing the main terms and their definitions.

Maintenance provides an essential contribution to the dependability of an item. Correct and formal definitions are required, which will give the user of associated maintenance standards a fuller understanding of the maintenance terms used. These terms may be of particular importance in the formulation of maintenance contracts.

The terms contained in this standard indicate that maintenance is not confined to the technical actions alone but includes other activities such as planning, documentation handling, etc.

1 Scope

This European Standard specifies generic terms and definitions for the technical, administrative and managerial areas of maintenance. It is not intended to terms which are used for the maintenance of software only.

2 Fundamental terms

3 Item related terms

4 Properties of items

5 Failures and events

6 Faults and states

7 Maintenance types

8 Maintenance activities

9 Time related terms

10 Maintenance support and tools

11 Economic and technical factors

BS EN 13306:2017

Maintenance. Maintenance terminology

Current, Under Review

Published:

31 Jan 2018