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Reference Library – Web sites

ANFOR standards:

  • NF X50-501:2007 Maintenance – Reference conditions for items Vocabulary of renovation and reconstruction activities.
  • NF X60-012:2006 Vocabulary of components of items and their supply.
  • NF X60-000:2016 Maintenance function.
  • NF X60-008:2002 Industrial maintenance – Maintenance outsourcing draft guide – Pre-contractual approach.
  • NF X60-100:2007 Maintenance – Preconditions to the maintenance contracts – Inventories and evaluation for the states of items.
  • NF X60-200:2008 Technical documentations associated with an item throughout its life cycle.
  • NF X60-212:2006 Maintenance – Handbook of instructions maintenance -Definitions and general principles for the wording and layout.

CEN standards:

  • EN 1325:2014 Value Management – Vocabulary – Terms and definitions.
  • EN 13269:2016 Maintenance – Guideline on preparation of maintenance contracts.
  • EN 13306:2017 Maintenance – Terminology.
  • EN 13460:2009 Maintenance – Documents for maintenance.
  • EN 15221-1:2006 Facility Management – Part 1: Terms and definitions.
  • EN 15221-2:2006 Facility Management – Part 2: Guidance on how to prepare Facility .Management agreements
  • EN 15331:2011 Criteria for design, management and control of maintenance services for buildings.
  • EN 15341:2019 Maintenance – Maintenance Key Performance Indicators.
  • EN 15628:2014 Maintenance – Qualification of Maintenance personnel.
  • EN 16646:2014 Maintenance within Asset Management.
  • EN 16991:2018 Risk based inspection framework.
  • EN 17007:2017 Maintenance process and associated indicators.

IEC standards:

  • IEC 31010:2019  Risk management — Risk assessment techniques
  • IEC 60300-3-10:2001 Application Guide – Maintainability.
  • IEC 60300-3-11:2009 Application guide – Reliability Centered Maintenance.
  • IEC 60300-3-12:2011 Integrated logistic support.
  • IEC 60300-3-14:2004 Maintenance and maintenance support.
  • IEC 60300-3-16:2008 Application guide – Guidelines for specification of maintenance support services.
  • IEC 60300-3-3:2017 Dependability management – Application guide – Life cycle costing.
  • IEC 60706-2:2006 Maintainability of equipment – Maintainability requirements and studies during the design phase.
  • IEC 60706-3:2006 Maintainability of equipment -Verification of maintainability and collection, analysis and presentation of maintainability data.
  • IEC 60706-5:2007 Guide on maintainability of equipment – Diagnostic testing.
  • IEC 60812:2018 Analysis techniques for system reliability – Procedure for failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA).
  • IEC 61508-1:2010 Functional safety of electrical/electronic/ programmable electronic safety-related systems – Part 1: General requirements.
  • IEC 61511:2020 Functional safety – Safety instrumented systems for the process industry sector.
  • IEC 61649:2008 Weibull analysis.
  • IEC 61703:2016 Mathematical expressions for reliability, maintainability and maintenance support items.
  • IEC 62308:2006 Reliability assessment methods.
  • IEC 62402:2019 Application guide – Obsolescence management.
  • IEC 62550:2017 Spare parts provisioning.
  • IEC 62740:2015 Root cause Analysis (RCA).

ISO and similar standards:

  • ISO 12100:2010  Safety of machinery — General principles for design — Risk assessment and risk reduction
  • ISO 13372:2012 Condition monitoring and diagnostics of machines – Vocabulary.
  • ISO 13379:2003 Condition monitoring and diagnostics of machines – General guidelines on data interpretation and diagnostics techniques.
  • ISO 13379-1:2012 Condition monitoring and diagnostics of machines – Data interpretation and diagnostics techniques – Part 1: General guidelines.
  • ISO 13381-1:2015 Condition monitoring and diagnostics of machines – Prognostics – Part 1: General guidelines.
  • ISO 45001:2018 Occupational health and safety management systems — Requirements with guidance for use
  • ISO 55000:2014 Asset management – Overview, principles and terminology.
  • ISO 55001:2014 Asset management – Management systems – Requirements.
  • ISO 55002:2018 Asset management – Management systems – Guidelines for the application of ISO 55001.
  • PAS 55-1:2008 Specification for their optimized management of physical assets.
  • PAS 55-2:2008 Guidelines for the application of PASS 55-1.

OSHA and HSE standards:

  • ILO-OSH:2001 Guidelines on occupational safety and health management systems.
  • OHSAS 18001:2007 Occupational Health and safety management systems – requirements.
  • OHSAS 18002:2009 Occupational Health and safety management systems – Guidelines for implementation of OHSAS 18001.

SAE standards:

  • SAE JA1011 Evaluation Criteria for Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) Processes.
  • SAE JA1012 A guide to RCM standard.

UNI standards:

  • UNI 10144:2006 Classification of maintenance services.
  • UNI 10145:2007 Definition of evaluation factors of services maintenance firms.
  • UNI 10146:2007 Criteria to prepare a contract for supplying maintenance finalized services.
  • UNI 10147:2003 Maintenance – Additional terms and definitions to EN 13306.
  • UNI 10148:2007 Maintenance – Management of a maintenance contract.
  • UNI 10449:2008 Maintenance – Criteria to prepare and to manage the permit to work.
  • UNI 10584:1997 Maintenance – Systems of information of maintenance.
  • UNI 10604:1997 Maintenance – Criteria for design, management and control of the maintenance services of buildings.
  • UNI 10652:2009 Maintenance – Appraisal and evaluation of the goods condition.
  • UNI 10685:2007 Maintenance – Criteria to prepare a maintenance global service.
  • UNI 10831-1:1999 Maintenance of buildings – Documentation and basic information for maintenance services of projects approved and executed – Structure, contents and levels of documentation.
  • UNI 10951:2001 Systems of information for the maintenance management of buildings – Guidelines.
  • UNI 11063:2003 Maintenance – Definitions of ordinary and extraordinary maintenance.
  • UNI 11069:2003 Maintenance – Maintenance ratios for the vehicles in service on road, with limited distances to be covered and frequent stops.
  • UNI 11082:2003 Maintenance – Specific terminology for the group transportation field.
  • UNI 11126:2004 Maintenance – Criteria for the suitability of the items and for the definition of the related service.
  • UNI 11134:2005 Maintenance – Maintenance ratios for the group transportation field.
  • UNI 11136:2004 Global service for maintenance of buildings – Guidelines.
  • UNI 11178:2006 Maintenance – Maintenance ratios – Guidance for the application of UNI 10388 in the field of the infrastructures of the group transportation on railways.
  • UNI 11257:2007 Maintenance of buildings – Criteria for the drafting of plan and programme of maintenance of buildings – Guidelines.
  • UNI 11414:2011 Maintenance Guidelines for qualification of maintenance system.
  • UNI 11420:2011 Maintenance – Qualification of maintenance personnel.

VDI standards:

  • VDI 2878:2020 Application of thermography to maintenance diagnostics.
  • VDI 2884:2005 Purchase, operating and maintenance of production equipment using Life Cycle Costing (LCC).
  • VDI 2885:2003 Standardized data for maintenance planning and determination of maintenance costs – Data and data determination.
  • VDI 2886:2003 Benchmarking applied to maintenance.
  • VDI 2888:1999 Maintenance condition monitoring.
  • VDI 2889:1998 Methods and systems for condition and process monitoring in maintenance.
  • VDI 2890:2017 Planned maintenance – Instruction on creating of maintenance lists.
  • VDI 2891:2008 Maintenance relevant criteria for purchase of machines.
  • VDI 2892:2019 Management of maintenance spare parts.
  • VDI 2893:2019 Selection and formation of indicators for maintenance.
  • VDI 2895:2012 Organisation of maintenance – Maintenance as a task of management.
  • VDI 2896:2013 Controlling of maintenance within plant management.
  • VDI 2897:1995 Maintenance – Application of lubricants in plants – Objectives and organisation.
  • VDI 2899:1996 Maintenance service – Procedure for deciding whether inhouse or external supply.
  • VDI 3511-4:2014 Temperature measurement in industry – Radiation thermometry – Maintenance and intended operation of radiation thermometers.
  • VDI 3711:2020 Input and transfer of maintenance information for condition monitoring – Digitisation of offline information
  • VDI 3810:2014 Operation and maintenance of building installations – Fundamentals.
  • VDI 3967:1994 Operation and maintenance of storage systems

Body of Knowledge

The final project report repeatedly mentions EFNMS – Body of Knowledge. This document can be found on EFNMS website. This is a development project within the EFNMS, which specifies what should be possible in maintenance.

The content describes the following:

  • List of maintenance methods, maintenance techniques, maintenance practices
  • List of Maintenance knowledge coming from EN15628 standard
  • List of maintenance processes and sub-processes according to EN17007
  • Subject by Maintenance processes + definition of maintenance subjects + relation with EN15628 + maintenance
  • Subjects by Maintenance chapters
  • List of the sub-processes of the Management processes concerned with a given subject
  • List of the sub-processes of the Realisation processes concerned with a given subject
  • List of the sub-processes of the Support processes concerned with a given subject
  • Subject by Maintenance sub-processes

Please, visit the website www.efnms.eu