Maintenance is defined as the combination of all technical and ad ministrative actions, including supervision actions, intended to retain an item in, or restore it to, a state in which it can perform a required function. Over the last decades, most industries as well as government services have come to consider maintenance as an im portant support function, which plays a key role in achieving organisational goals. Maintenance policy is now recognised as a fundamental input to achieve the required performance levels, in particular availability. The purpose of the seminar is to gather specialists from industry and academia to share experience and ideas on methodology and applications: to identify what has been tried and tested, what ought to be tried, what developments are still needed, what obstacles exist to the adoption of good practice.
Henk Wels will present the paper "Degradation trajectories for components in conventional power plants": session 6, paper 14. Co-author of the paper is Hans Brinkman of NRG.