Terotechnology (; from
Greek
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**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
τηρεῖν ''tērein'' "to care for" and technology) is the technology of installation, including the efficient use and management of equipment. It also involves the use of technology to carry out maintenance functions in a bid to reduce cost and increase productivity.
Definition
The term goes back to the 1970s.
Terotechnology is a system for the care of equipment. It includes the management, engineering, and financial expertise working together to improve the installation and operations.
In practice
It involves the
reliability
Reliability, reliable, or unreliable may refer to:
Science, technology, and mathematics Computing
* Data reliability (disambiguation), a property of some disk arrays in computer storage
* High availability
* Reliability (computer networking), a ...
and maintainability of physical equipment regarding installation, operation, maintenance, or replacement. Decisions are influenced by feedback throughout the
life cycle
Life cycle, life-cycle, or lifecycle may refer to:
Science and academia
*Biological life cycle, the sequence of life stages that an organism undergoes from birth to reproduction ending with the production of the offspring
* Life-cycle hypothesis ...
of a project.
In 1992 the
British Standards Institution
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published ''
British Standard
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3843: Guide to terotechnology''. The standard was withdrawn in November 2011.
See also
*
Asset management
References
External links
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''Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged'', HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
Engineering mechanics
Industrial design
Industrial processes
Maintenance