time-based maintenance

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time-based maintenance

an approach to MAINTENANCE which provides for the overhaul of machinery, plant and equipment at planned regular intervals, for example, once every three months.

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During the past decades, the system maintenance strategy has experienced three development stages (Hyvarinen and Karki, 1996) and (Yoshimura and Ito, 1989): breakdown maintenance, time-based maintenance and condition-based maintenance.

Intelligent Model Based Fault Detection and Diagnosis for HVAC System Using Statistical Machine Learning Methods

During the past decades, the system maintenance strategy has experienced three development stages (Hyvarinen and Karki, 1996; and (Yoshimura and Ito, 1989): breakdown maintenance, time-based maintenance and condition-based maintenance.

Intelligent model based fault detection and diagnosis for HVAC system using statistical machine learning methods

They promise to save the Department of Defense (DOD) money and man-hours by aiding DOD's initiative to transition the maintenance of weapon systems from time-based maintenance to condition-based maintenance plus (CBM+) by 2015.

New condition-based maintenance tools coming to army aviation

Safety is not the only driving force here; the ability to replace time-based maintenance with condition-based maintenance could also save money and minimize downtime.