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Meridium APM Glossary

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About This Document

This file is provided so that you can easily print this section of the Meridium APM Help
system.
You should, however, use the Help system instead of a printed document. This is
because the Help system provides hyperlinks that will assist you in easily locating the
related instructions that you need. Such links are not available in a print document
format.
The Meridium APM Help system can be accessed within Meridium APM itself or via the
Meridium APM Documentation Website (https://www.me-
ridium.com/documentation/WebHelp/WebHelpMaster.htm).

Note: If you do not have access to the Meridium APM Documentation Website, con-
tact Meridium Global Support Services.

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Meridium APM Glossary 1
Copyright and Legal 2
About This Document 3
Table of Contents 4
About the Master Glossary 12
Administrative Applications 13
Administrative User 14
AHM 15
AMSAA 16
AMS Analytics 17
AMS Asset Portal 18
APM 19
APM Foundation Work Process 20
Application Server 21
Application Update Feature 22
Army Material Systems Analysis Activity (AMSAA) 23
ASI 24
ASI for SAP 25
ASM 26
Asset Criticality Analysis (ACA) 27
Asset Health Manager (AHM) 28
Asset Performance Management (APM) 29
Asset Safety Work Process 30
Asset Strategy Implementation (ASI) 31
Asset Strategy Management (ASM) 32
Asset Strategy Optimization (ASO) 33
Asset Strategy Work Process 34
Associated Page 35

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Baseline Metadata, Content, and Functionality 36

Browser 37
Calibration Management 38
Caption 39
Catalog 40
Client Machine 41
CMMS 42
Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) 43
Configuration Manager 44
Configured Explorer 45
Conversion Set 46
Core Analysis 47
Corrosion Rate 48
Cost of Unreliability 49
Cube 50
Culture 51
Dashboard 52
Data Source 53
Data Source Manager 54
Data Type 55
Database 56
Database Content 57
Database Server 58
Database Upgrade Manager 59
Dataset 60
Datasheet 61
Device 62
AMS Device Manager 63
Distribution Analysis 64
E2G 65

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EAM 66
EAM Interfaces 67
Energy Information Administration (EIA) 68
Entity Family 69
Entity Key 70
ENTY_ID 71
Equipment 72
Equipment Taxonomy 73
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 74
Failure Elimination Work Process 75
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) 76
Family 77
Family Hierarchy 78
Family-Level Privileges 79
Field 80
Field-Level Rules 81
Generation Management (GM) 82
GM 83
Graph 84
Growth Analysis 85
Handheld Device 86
Hazards Analysis 87
HAZOP Analysis 88
HF 89
Home Page 90
Hyperlink 91
ID Template 92
IIS 93
Inspection Management 94
Key Performance Indicator (KPI) 95

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KPI 96
Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) 97
LDAP 98
LDAP Integration 99
License Activation 100
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) 101
Link 102
Location Hierarchy 103
Local Connection 104
Login Information 105
LOPA 106
Lost Profit Opportunity (LPO) 107
LPO 108
Lubrication Management 109
AMS Machinery Manager 110
Macros 111
Maximo Interfaces 112
Mechanical Integrity Work Process 113
Menu Bar 114
Meridium APM 115
Meridium APM Administrative Applications 116
Meridium APM Application Server Machine 117
Meridium APM Database 118
Meridium APM Database Comparison Tool 119
Meridium APM Device 120
Meridium APM Framework Application 121
Meridium APM Mobile Framework 122
Meridium APM Mobile Sync Services 123
Meridium APM System Administration Tool 124
Meridium APM Web Framework 125

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Meridium APM Web Framework Server 126

Meridium APM Web Services 127
Meridium RCMO® 128
Metadata 129
Metric View 130
Metrics and Scorecards 131
Minimum Thickness (T-Min) 132
Module 133
Multi-Value Fields 134
NERC 135
.NET Framework 136
North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) 137
Operating System (OS) 138
Operator Rounds 139
Oracle EBS eAM Intefaces 140
OS 141
PLA 142
PMO 143
Policy Manager 144
Predecessor 145
PROACT® for Meridium 146
Proactive Maintenance 147
Process Data Integration 148
Production Analysis 149
Production Loss Accounting (PLA) 150
PRT 151
Public Folder 152
Query 153
Query Builder 154
RCA 155

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RBI 156
RCM 157
Recommendation 158
Record 159
Record Hierarchy 160
Record ID 161
Record Manager 162
Reference Documents 163
Relationship Family 164
Relationship Definition 165
Reliability Analytics 166
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) 167
Reliability Distribution Analysis 168
Reliability Growth Analysis 169
Remoting 170
Report 171
Risk Assessment Feature 172
Risk Assessment Interface 173
Risk Based Inspection 174
Risk Matrix 175
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) 176
Rules 177
Rule Project 178
Rules Editor 179
Rules Library 180
Safety Instrumented System 181
Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Analysis 182
SAP Interfaces 183
Schedule Manager 184
Schema 185

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Scorecard 186
Security User 187
SIS Management 188
Site Map 189
SP 190
Spares Analysis 191
SQL Server Analysis Services 192
SQL Server Reporting Services 193
Start Page 194
State Configuration 195
Strategy 196
Strategy Rule 197
Subfamily 198
Super User 199
System Administrator 200
System Code Tables 201
System Codes 202
System Reliability Analysis 203
Task Management 204
Task Menu 205
TCP 206
Thickness Measurement 207
Thickness Measurement Location (TML) 208
Thickness Monitoring (TM) 209
Title Bar 210
T-Min Calculator 211
TM 212
TM Analysis 213
TML 214
Toolbar 215

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Type-Ahead 216
Unit of Measure (UOM) 217
Unit of Measure Conversion Set 218
Unit of Measure Conversions 219
UOM 220
URL 221
URL Manager 222
URL Path 223
User 224
Visual Basic.Net (VB.Net) 225
Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) 226
VSTA 227
Work Process 228
Workspace 229
XML 230

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About the Master Glossary

The Meridium APM Master Glossary contains descriptions of high-level terms that are
used throughout the Meridium APM software and documentation. This glossary con-
tains terms that apply to various areas of the Meridium APM system and is not limited
to the terms used in a specific application or module. More detailed, module-specific
terms are defined within the module documentation.

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Administrative Applications

Administrative Applications
See Meridium APM Administrative Applications.

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Administrative User

Administrative User
A term that is used throughout the Meridium APM documentation to mean a Meridium
APM user who has administrative privileges and who performs administrative respons-
ibilities in the system. For example, an administrative user in Metrics and Scorecards
might be responsible for managing cube privileges.
Note that an administrative user for one module will not necessarily be an admin-
istrative user for another module. Note also that all Super Users can perform all admin-
istrative tasks. To be an administrative user, however, you do not have to be a Super
User. You may be granted administrative privileges in a specific area of the product.
See also System Administrator.

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AHM

AHM
Asset Health Manager

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AMSAA

AMSAA
Army Material Systems Analysis Activity

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AMS Analytics

AMS Analytics
A Meridium APM module that lets you retrieve data from AMS Analytics data sources so
that you can view it in Meridium APM. AMS Analytics data sources store information that
is reported about assets and processes, such as alerts and alarms, to provide an indic-
ation of their overall health.

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AMS Asset Portal

A term once used to refer to AMS Analytics. You may see this term throughout the
product in various places. Any object identified by the term AMS Asset Portal is used by
the AMS Analytics module.
See also AMS Analytics.

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APM

APM
Asset Performance Management

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APM Foundation Work Process

The work process upon which all other Meridium APM Work Processes are built. It con-
sists of the following five components:
l Asset Criticality Analysis (ACA)
l Core Analysis
l Recommendation Management
l Asset Health Manager (AHM)
l EAM Interfaces
n SAP Interfaces
n Oracle EBS eAM Interfaces
l Online Analytic Interfaces
n AMS Analytics
n Process Data Integration
l Operator Rounds
l Lubrication Management

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Application Server

Application Server
See Meridium APM Application Server Machine.

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Application Update Feature

A feature that allows Meridium APM Framework workstations to be upgraded auto-
matically when they connect to a Meridium APM Application Server machine that con-
tains a version of Meridium APM that is more recent than the version currently installed
on the Meridium APM Framework workstation.

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Army Material Systems Analysis Activity (AMSAA)

A Reliability Growth model that uses a relationship between cumulative operating time
and cumulative failures to develop a Reliability Growth Analysis.

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ASI

ASI
Asset Strategy Implementation

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ASI for SAP

The optional component that allows you to transfer data from Meridium APM to SAP
using Asset Strategy Implementation (ASI).

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ASM

ASM
Asset Strategy Management

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Asset Criticality Analysis (ACA)

A Meridium APM Framework Tool that lets you conduct an ACA Analysis, which consists
of an Asset Criticality Analysis record and all the records that are linked to that record.
Using ACA you can evaluate the criticality of the systems and individual pieces of equip-
ment and locations that make up those systems by defining the consequences and prob-
ability of the failure events that may occur. After you have determined which of your
equipment, process locations, and systems are critical, you can use Meridium APM mod-
ules to further analyze and safeguard those pieces of equipment, locations, and sys-
tems.

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Asset Health Manager (AHM)

A Meridium APM module that allows you to view a graphical representation of the over-
all health of a piece of equipment. The health is determined by data that exists about
that piece of equipment in various Meridium APM records. Using AHM, you can determ-
ine which records contain information that indicates the piece of equipment's health
and then create a Health Indicator record that is linked to those records.

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Asset Performance Management (APM)

The formalized practices, processes, data collection, and software required to track and
understand equipment operations and failures and to implement the appropriate main-
tenance schedules.

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Asset Safety Work Process

The Meridium APM work process that is focused on maintaining safe processes. The
Asset Safety work process includes the following modules:
l Hazards Analysis
l SIS Management
l Calibration Management

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Asset Strategy Implementation (ASI)

The Meridium APM module that lets you build Implementation Packages, which are con-
tainers of records that dictate the work that you want to perform and the Asset
Strategies that contain the original work requests (Action Revision records). Using ASI,
you can determine where you want to track the physical work that needs to be per-
formed, your Meridium APM system or an external SAP system. Then, by implementing
these Implementation Packages, you can create those physical work items (Meridium
APM records or SAP items).
For example, if you want to track work items in Meridium APM, you can create Meas-
urement Location records or Meridium APM Task records. If, however, you want to track
work against items in your SAP system, you can also use ASI to create items such as
Maintenance Plans, Maintenance Items, and Task Lists.

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Asset Strategy Management (ASM)

The Meridium APM module that lets you create a strategy, which is a set of actions that
represent a plan to optimize asset performance to achieve business benefits.
Using Asset Strategy Management (ASM), you can create the following types of
strategies:
l Asset Strategy: The combination of Actions and Failure Risks that are associated
with an asset.
l System Strategy: A collection of Asset Strategies that are defined for assets that
work together in a system.
l Unit Strategy: A collection of System Strategies that are defined for systems that
work together in a unit.
In other words, ASM allows you to create Asset Strategies to define ways in which assets
can fail and the actions that you want to perform to prevent those failures and reduce
the consequences if they were to occur. After your database contains multiple Asset
Strategies, you can bundle those Asset Strategies into a System Strategy. Likewise, after
your database contains multiple System Strategies, you can bundle those System
Strategies into a Unit Strategy. A Unit Strategy, therefore, represents a global plan for
multiple assets within a single system.

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Asset Strategy Optimization (ASO)

The Meridium APM module that lets you extend the analytical capabilities of the Asset
Strategy Management (ASM) module by providing the following additional features:
l A detailed cost analysis for all actions, including the ability to define planned and
unplanned correction costs.
l The ability to define resources, such as spare parts and human resources, that are
needed to perform actions.
l Time to Failure (TTF) and Time to Repair (TTR) information based on Monte Carlo
simulation results.
l Integration with the Meridium APM Reliability Analytics module.
l A diagramming tool that allows you to represent the physical structure of your sys-
tem.
l The option to define global events.
While ASO is its own separate module, it is intended to extend the capabilities available
in ASM by providing a more detailed analysis. You will, therefore, access ASO directly
from an existing Asset Strategy, System Strategy, or Unit Strategy. Then, using ASO, you
can use the additional features in the previous list to determine the most optimal
strategy for a piece of equipment or location, which can then be promoted back into
ASM.
In other words, ASO and ASM work together to provide a more comprehensive view of
your equipment and locations to help you determine the best way to manage them to
reduce cost and risk.

Note: The ASO module and all of its content (e.g., families) are available only if the
ASM module is active.

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Asset Strategy Work Process

The Meridium APM work process that is focused on proactive equipment and location
management plans that are designed for the purpose of mitigating risks. The Asset
Strategy work process includes the following modules:
l Asset Strategy Management (ASM)
l Asset Strategy Implementation (ASI)
l Asset Strategy Optimization (ASO)
l Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA),
or Reliability Centered Maintenance and Optimization (RCMO)

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Associated Page

Associated Page
A link that is configured for a specific family via the URL Manager that provides access to
internal or external locations, such as a page in Meridium APM, a webpage, or an
external file. You can configure Associated Pages for any entity family so that when
users view a record belonging to that family, links will appear on the Associated Pages
menu to provide users with access to those items. Associated Pages are meant to
provide additional information or functionality related to the record that is currently
being viewed.
After you have configured Associated Pages for a family, they will always appear:
l On a shortcut menu in your search results when you search on that family using a
search.
l On the Associated Pages menu when you are viewing a record that belongs to that
family in the Record Manager.
l On the Associated Pages menu when you are viewing a record that belongs to that
family in the Bulk Data Form.
Associated Pages also appear on various module-specific pages throughout the
Meridium APM Framework application, as appropriate to the page you are viewing.

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Baseline Metadata, Content, and Functionality

The metadata, content, and functionality that are provided by Meridium APM out-of-the-
box (i.e., immediately after installation and setup), before any customization has taken
place. Baseline families and fields are those that Meridium Inc. provides for you in the
Meridium APM database. Baseline Catalog content consists of items (e.g., queries,
graphs, and reports) that are provided by Meridium APM in the Catalog folder Baseline.
In most cases, the baseline content for a given module will be available only if the mod-
ule is active.
Baseline metadata, content, and functionality serve as the foundation upon which your
Meridium APM implementation is built. You can add to and customize the baseline con-
tent to create a custom implementation that is appropriate for the users of your system.
Some customer implementations may deviate only slightly from the baseline product;
others may have been customized a great deal.
In most cases, throughout the Meridium APM documentation, we limit our discussion to
baseline features and functionality. In some cases, we provide tips and hints about how
you might want to customize or extend the baseline features. In other places, because
we do not know how your implementation has been configured, we describe only the
baseline features. It is the responsibility of administrative users to communicate to
other Meridium APM users any information about custom features and functionality.

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Browser

Browser
One of the Meridium APM Framework Tools that lets you view the database hierarchy
and access records in the database.

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Calibration Management

Calibration Management
The Meridium APM module that lets track the performance of certain equipment, such
as instruments and analyzers, by evaluating the detailed results of the calibration events
associated with that equipment. Calibration event data can be recorded manually, using
Calibration Event records, or automatically, using an automated calibrator device.
Using Calibration Management, you can:
l Define the requirements of calibration events.
l Define a schedule on which calibration events should occur.
l Record and evaluate calibration event data.
Calibration Management is configured to work with the current Calibration Management
model. Throughout the documentation, wherever we refer to baseline functionality or
families, we mean the baseline features within the current Calibration Management
model.

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Caption

Caption
A property that specifies how something will be labeled throughout the software inter-
face. For example, a datasheet field caption specifies how a field will be labeled on a
datasheet. A family caption specifies what name will appear for the family throughout
the interface. Note that most captions can be localized.

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Catalog

Catalog
The Meridium APM Framework Tool, which serves as the central warehouse for the
items that have been saved in the Meridium APM database. Items that can be saved to
and accessed through the Catalog include queries, searches, reports, graphs, dash-
boards, and datasets.

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Client Machine

Client Machine
A single user computer which is connected via a network to, and works in conjunction
with, one or more shared computers (servers), where data storage and processing is dis-
tributed between them in one of a number of ways.
See also Meridium APM Framework Application.

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CMMS

CMMS
Computerized Maintenance Management System

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Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)

Computerized Maintenance Management System

(CMMS)
A system for tracking work orders and managing asset maintenance.

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Configuration Manager

Configuration Manager
An Administrative Application that lets you define how you want data to be stored in
Meridium APM. Using the Configuration Manager, you can define field properties, create
entity families, set up relationships between families, create views, create business
rules, design datasheets, copy objects from one database to another view, view the data
dictionary, and generate the tables that store data.

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Configured Explorer

Configured Explorer
A Catalog item that can be used to provide a customized view of the record hierarchy
when a record is opened in the Record Manger. Configured explorers control which fam-
ilies appear in the record hierarchy and which options are available on the shortcut
menu when you right-click an item in the hierarchy.

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Conversion Set

Conversion Set
See Unit of Measure Conversion Set.

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Core Analysis

Core Analysis
A component of the Meridium APM Work Process that consists of following features:
l Queries
l Datasets
l Graphs
l Reports
l Task Management

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Corrosion Rate

Corrosion Rate
The speed at which a piece of equipment is corroding. In Thickness Monitoring, each
TML Corrosion Analysis and Asset Corrosion Analysis will have one or more calculated
corrosion rates.

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Cost of Unreliability

Cost of Unreliability
An estimate of the total cost caused by component failures and system shutdowns. It
includes the cost of maintenance to fix problems and the lost profit opportunity of the
reduction in output.

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Cube

Cube
A subset of data, usually constructed from a data warehouse, organized and sum-
marized into a multidimensional structure and defined by a set of dimensions and
measures. Cubes are managed via SQL Server Analysis Services and Metrics and Score-
cards.

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Culture

Culture
A field in Meridium APM Security User records that identifies a users's preferred lan-
guage and Security User contains a Culture setting that determines what language will
be displayed when that user logs in to the Meridium APM Applications. Throughout the
documentation, the value in this field is referred to as the Meridium APM Culture
setting.

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Dashboard

Dashboard
A Meridium APM Catalog item that can be used to display information about data in
your Meridium APM system and provide a way to navigate to other areas in the
Meridium APM Framework. The content of dashboards is driven by queries that are also
stored in the Meridium APM Catalog.

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Data Source

Data Source
A repository of information that can be accessed by Meridium APM. In the Meridium
APM documentation, we refer to two types of data sources:
l Meridium APM data source: An Oracle schema or SQL Server database that stores
the Meridium APM data and metadata. To connect to a Meridium APM database,
you must create a data sourceconnection via the Meridium APM Data Source Man-
ager. In the Meridium APM documentation, the terms data source and database
are used interchangeably.
l AMS Analytics data source: In AMS Analytics, the external data source from which
the data that is transferred to Meridium APM originates. In the AMS Analytics doc-
umentation, the termdatabaserefers to the Meridium APM database to which the
data is transferred from theAMS Analytics data source.

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Data Source Manager

The Meridium APM Administrative Application that lets you define the data sources that
will be accessible in the Meridium APM applications. Using the Data Source Manager,
you can define connection information for data sources and define a default data
source for the Meridium APM applications.

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Data Type

Data Type
A property of family fields that specifies what type of data the field will store. You can
choose from the following types: Binary, Character (the default for new fields), Date,
Number, Text, and Logical.

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Database

Database
See Meridium APM Database or Database Server.

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Database Content

Database Content
Data and metadata stored in the Meridium APM database. Some content is provided in
the baseline Meridium APM database. Other content must be created by customers as
needed. Each module has a specific set of baseline content associated with it. A given
module must be active for the database content to be visible.

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Database Server

Database Server
The computer that houses the Meridium APM database and answers requests from the
Meridium APM Application Server.

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Database Upgrade Manager

An Administrative Application that you can use to perform an upgrade of the Meridium
APM database.

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Dataset

Dataset
Any set of static data that is either created in Meridium APM and exported for use in
another application or imported into Meridium APM from another source. For example,
you can create a "snapshot" of Meridium APM query results and export the information
as a dataset to be stored on your local computer. Alternatively, you might import into
Meridium APM an external file, such as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, XML data, or a
delimited text file, to view and analyze the data. Datasets imported into Meridium APM
are stored in the Catalog and can be linked to your Home Page.

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Datasheet

Datasheet
A template that defines all the fields that will be displayed for records in a given family
when you view a record for that family. Datasheets organize data into logical sections,
rows, and columns and provide a means for viewing and editing the information asso-
ciated with a specific record. Datasheets can be customized to include specific fields for
specific types of records. You can view the datasheet for a record via the Record Man-
ager, the Bulk Data Form, or some other Meridium APM-provided customized view of
the record.

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Device

Device
A tool that facilitates the collection of data stored in a format that is supported by
Meridium APM so that the data can be transferred between Meridium APM and the
device itself. A device can be a physical piece of hardware, such as a handheld, data-col-
lection instrument, or a file, such as a spreadsheet or text file.

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AMS Device Manager

An AMS Analytics data source whose data is transferred to the Meridium APM database
via the connection between the Meridium APM Application Server and the web server
for the AMS Device Manager.

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Distribution Analysis

Distribution Analysis
A statistical analysis of data to determine the distribution by frequency of data values
between the upper and lower limits of the dataset. A Distribution Analysis characterizes
how failures are distributed over the life of equipment. Note that this refers to a par-
ticular failure mode over one or more pieces of equipment.

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E2G

E2G
Equity Engineering Group

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EAM

EAM
Enterprise Asset Management

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EAM Interfaces

EAM Interfaces
A suite of Meridium APM products that allows you to transfer data between your EAM
system and your Meridium APM system. The following EAM Interfaces are available:
l Maximo Interfaces
l Oracle EBS eAM Intefaces
l SAP Interfaces

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Energy Information Administration (EIA)

An organization that collects and maintains U.S. energy statistics. For more details, visit
http://www.eia.doe.gov/.

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Entity Family

Entity Family
An organizational unit that is used for classifying entity records, which represent indi-
vidual elements within your organization. Records belonging to entity families will store
information related to physical or intellectual items (equipment, people, analyses,
inspections, etc.) in your company or facility.
For example, Axial Compressor would be an entity family. An individual Axial Com-
pressor record would be one entity belonging to that family. Each entity family has a cor-
responding entity family table in the Meridium APM database. Entity family records are
what you view and manage in the Meridium APM Record Manager.

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Entity Key

Entity Key
The unique, numeric value that identifies an entity within a given Meridium APM
datavase. The Entity Key is assigned to an entity when it is created and cannot be mod-
ified.

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ENTY_ID

ENTY_ID
A field that stores a value that is constructed using the ID Template defined for a family.
The ENTY_ID field is a system field that is created automatically by Meridium APM and
exists in every record in the database. The ENTY_ID field cannot be viewed or modified
via the Configuration Manager application, but it can be included in queries and is dis-
played in various places throughout Meridium APM. In most places where the ENTY_ID
is displayed, it is labeled Record ID. For example, when you perform a search in the
Meridium APM Framework application, the search results will include a column labeled
Record ID, which displays values that exist in the ENTY_ID field of each record. Because
this field is often labeled Record ID, we usually refer to it as the Record ID field through-
out the Meridium APM documentation.
See also Record ID.

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Equipment

Equipment
The items in your organization that you want to monitor, inspect, evaluate, and analyze
using the Meridium APM analytical tools. Meridium APM provides the baseline Equip-
ment family for you to store records about your pieces of equipment.

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Equipment Taxonomy

Equipment Taxonomy
The classification system used for identifying equipment.

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Extensible Markup Language (XML)

A standard for defining, representing, and dynamically sharing information across the
Internet.

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Failure Elimination Work Process

The Meridium APM work process that is focused on identifying past failures and elim-
inating future failures. The Failure Elimination Work process includes the following mod-
ules:
l Production Loss Accounting
l Generation Management
l Metrics and Scorecards
l Root Cause Analysis
l Reliability Analytics

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Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

The Meridium APM module that lets you identify the potential failures of pieces of equip-
ment, describe the possible effect of each failure, and make recommendations for
actions that can be taken to prevent the failures from occurring. Whereas an RCM ana-
lysis evaluates a system with respect to its function for the purpose of determining how
to avoid functional failures, a Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) analysis focuses
on the equipment itself and analyzes how each piece of equipment can fail and the
effect of each failure. In other words, an RCM analysis is conducted for the purpose of
maintaining the function of a system. An FMEA analysis is conducted for the purpose of
maintaining the system itself.

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Family

Family
A classification that defines a group of similar records. Families are created for the pur-
pose of organizing the layout of the database. Meridium APM uses two types of families:
entity families and relationship families.

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Family Hierarchy

Family Hierarchy
The structured, multi-level relationships between families in the database.

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Family-Level Privileges

Family-Level Privileges
Permissions that are defined in the Configuration Manager application at the family
level and control a user's ability to access data associated with a given family. For each
family, you can assign the following level of privileges to a Security User or Group:
l View: The Security User or Group can view records that belong to the family.
l Update: The Security User or Group can modify records that belong to the family.
l Insert: The Security User or Group can create records in the family.
l Delete: The Security User or Group can delete records that belong to the family.

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Field

Field
An organizational unit within a family that stores a specific piece of data. Together, the
fields that are defined for a family determine what type of data will be collected for
records within a given family. All fields are of a certain data type. Rules can be written
for fields to determine how they will behave. Fields can be displayed on datasheets so
that when users create records in a family, they can enter data into the fields.

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Field-Level Rules

Field-Level Rules
Rules that can be defined for family fields to determine how those fields will behave
under certain circumstances. Field-level rules can be defined via the Rules Wizard in the
Configuration Manager application or via custom rules in the family rule project.

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Generation Management (GM)

An optional Meridium APM module that uses the Meridium APM Framework Tools to
help you record and report power generation and loss data for each unit in your com-
pany. Using GM, you can easily enter your data into records.

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GM
Generation Management

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Graph

Graph
A visual representation of data that can be created and viewed on the Graph Viewer
page.

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Growth Analysis

Growth Analysis
See Reliability Growth Analysis.

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Handheld Device

Handheld Device
See Device.

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Hazards Analysis

Hazards Analysis
A Meridium APM module that lets you examine the processes that are performed by the
assets in a facility to identify existing and potential hazards that are associated with
those processes under both normal and abnormal conditions. Using Hazards Analysis,
you can conduct the following types of Hazards Analyses: HAZOP Analysis or What If Ana-
lysis.

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HAZOP Analysis

HAZOP Analysis
In Hazards Analysis, a type of Hazards Analysis that lets you document the known haz-
ardous scenarios that are associated with a process, assess the likelihood of those scen-
arios occurring, and determine the best way to mitigate the risks associated with the
scenarios.

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HF
Hot Fix (e.g., V3.1.0 HF1)

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Home Page

Home Page
l In the Meridium APM Framework application, a Home Page is a user-specific or
group-specific start page that appears to provide users with quick access to com-
monly performed tasks. Home Pages can be customized to serve the specific
needs of users and groups.
l In the Meridium APM Web Framework, a Home Page is a group-specific start page
that appears to provide users with quick access to commonly performed tasks or
a webpage. An administrative user is responsible for configuring group Home
Pages for the Meridium APM Web Framework.

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Hyperlink

Hyperlink
A feature on the interface, usually consisting of underlined text, that opens a linked item
or page when clicked. Within Meridium APM, you can create hyperlinks in various places
(e.g., Home Pages, queries) to provide direct access to specific features.

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ID Template

ID Template
A record in the Configuration Manager that specifies how ID fields will be arranged and
whether or not each will be included in the IDs of records within a given family.

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IIS

IIS
Internet Information Services

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Inspection Management

Inspection Management
The Meridium APM module that lets you document, manage, and analyze data asso-
ciated with the inspections of the physical equipment in your facility. The Inspection
Management functionality is fully integrated with other Meridium APM features to sup-
port compliance with safety regulations, optimize inspection strategies, and give you
access to other useful analytical tools. Using Inspection Management, you can manage
various items, such as Inspection Alerts, Inspection Documents, and Inspection Tasks.

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Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

Metrics and Scorecards, coupled with success criteria, that have been identified as the
most important variable reflecting mission success, or organizational or system per-
formance.

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KPI

KPI
Key Performance Indicator

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Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA)

In SIS Management, a type of risk assessment that you can use to assess the safety integ-
rity level that is associated with a safety instrumented system. Using a Layer of Pro-
tection Analysis (LOPA), you can assess the risks associated with each instrumented
function that is defined for a safety instrumented function at a granular level, including
evaluating the events that indicate that a failure is likely to occur.

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LDAP

LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

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LDAP Integration

LDAP Integration
A feature of Meridium APM that allows you to synchronize Meridium APM with
Microsoft Active Directory to enable automatic login and continuous updating of user
information. LDAP integration can be enabled via the Configuration Manager applic-
ation.

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License Activation

License Activation
A process by which Meridium APM modules and products are enabled so that they can
be used. Licenses can be activated via the Meridium APM Configuration Manager applic-
ation.

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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

A protocol that is used for querying and managing directories that run over TCP/IP.
Microsoft Active Directory represents one implementation of LDAP. Meridium APM sup-
ports integration with Microsoft Active Directory to facilitate automatic login and syn-
chronization of user information.

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Link

Link
A connection between two records in the database. A link can be created between to
records when they belong to families that are related to one another through a rela-
tionship definition.

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Location Hierarchy

Location Hierarchy
The organizational structure of physical locations.
The Meridium APM product is built upon the fundamental premise that within your com-
pany, there are multiple locations, which can be organized in a hierarchy to represent
the fact that some locations belong to other locations. For example, three systems
might belong to the same unit, meaning that units resides on a higher level of the hier-
archy than systems.
This concept of levels of locations should be familiar to you regardless of the number of
levels you have or the names that you assign to them within your company.
Regardless of the number or type of locations that exist in your company, in order to
track them in the Meridium APM system, you will need to use the Functional Location
family and the fields in each Functional Location record to define which location it rep-
resents. Remember that because there is only one Functional Location family, you will
need to use it to store data about all of your Functional Location records, where the val-
ues in each Functional Location record identify which type of location it is.

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Local Connection

Local Connection
A communication method that allows you to access files directly on the Application
Server. The only time you will need to use a Local connection is if you log in to the Con-
figuration Manager on the Application Server itself to debug business rules. Business
rules debugging can be performed only via a Configuration Manager application that is
running on the Application Server using a Local connection.

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LOPA

LOPA
See Layer of Protection Analysis.

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Lost Profit Opportunity (LPO)

The profit that the company loses when the production fails in an oversold market. Rep-
resents the difference between the market price of the product and the cost of pro-
ducing it.

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LPO

LPO
Lost Profit Opportunity

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Lubrication Management

Lubrication Management
A module where you can track checkpoints for the assets in your factory that requiring
regular lubrication. Using Lubrication Management, you can track routes, manage lub-
ricants, and record reading values for lubrication requirements and create recom-
mendations based on those reading values.

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AMS Machinery Manager

An AMS Analytics data source whose data is transferred to the Meridium APM database
via the connection between the Meridium APM Application Server and the web server
for the AMS Machinery Manager.

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Macros

Macros
Business rules that are stored in the Meridium APM Rules Library and can be invoked
outside of standard record functions via URLs to support workflows and invoke actions
independently of creating, updating, or deleting records. A macro can be any static pub-
lic method and can perform any function you like.

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Maximo Interfaces

Maximo Interfaces
A feature that allows you to transfer data between your Maximo system and your
Meridium APM system. The Maximo Interfaces feature provides a set of pre-defined
interfaces that support equipment and work order data transfer.

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Mechanical Integrity Work Process

The Meridium APM work process that is focused on mitigating the risk of loss of con-
tainment by implementing condition assessment activities. The Mechanical Integrity
work process consists of the following modules:
l Criticality Calculator
l Risk Based Inspection (RBI)
l Inspection Management
l Thickness Monitoring (TM)

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Menu Bar

Menu Bar
A feature of the user interface that contains many of the commands necessary to oper-
ate the application, divided into logical menus. For example, the main menu bar in the
Meridium APM Framework application contains five menus: File, Edit, Go To, Tools, and
Help.

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Meridium APM

Meridium APM
An Asset Performance Management solution provided by Meridium, Inc. The term
Meridium APM encompasses all products, components, modules, applications, and
data distributed and licensed by Meridium, Inc. to make up a comprehensive APM solu-
tion.

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Meridium APM Administrative Applications

The Meridium APM applications that are meant to be used by Meridium APM admin-
istrative users. The Administrative Applications include:
l Configuration Manager
l URL Manager
l Schedule Manager
l Data Source Manager
l Database Upgrade Manager

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Meridium APM Application Server Machine

A computer in the Meridium APM system where the Meridium APM Application Server
software is installed. Each Meridium APM Application Server instance is either:
l Dedicated: An instance that receive and process requests from Meridium APM
Framework workstations. Computers on which dedicated Meridium Application
Server instances are installed do not have any other Meridium APM components
installed on them.
-or-
l Supporting: An instance that exists to support another Meridium APM component
and is installed on a computer in combination with the component that it sup-
ports. An example of a supporting Meridium APM Application Server is the one
that is installed on the Meridium APM Web Framework machine.

Note: Typically, when we refer to the Meridium APM Application Server machine, we
are referring to a computer that contains a dedicated Meridium APM Application
Server instance. Computers where a supporting Meridium APM Application Server
instance is installed are typically referred to by the name of the application that the
Application Server instance supports. For example, a supporting Meridium APM Applic-
ation Server instance exists on the Meridium APM Web Framework machine.

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Meridium APM Database

The warehouse that stores the metadata (the Meridium APM database object definitions
that include tables and indexes) and tables that contain data that can be viewed and
modified in the Meridium APM system. Throughout the Meridium APM documentation,
we use the generic term Meridium APM database to mean either an Oracle schema or a
SQL Server database that contains the Meridium APM database tables and metadata.

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Meridium APM Database Comparison Tool

A tool that lets you view the differences that exist between the content of two databases.

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Meridium APM Device

A handheld device on which a Meridium APM mobile application, such as Meridium
APM Operator Rounds, in installed.

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Meridium APM Framework Application

The software application that you use to access all the features of Meridium APM.
Through the Meridium APM Framework, you can navigate all the Meridium APM tools,
such as queries, graphs, and the Catalog, and you can use all the Meridium APM mod-
ules, such as RCM, Metrics and Scorecards, and Inspection Management.

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Meridium APM Mobile Framework

Software that is installed on handheld devices to provide an infrastructure for deploying
handheld applications (e.g., Operator Rounds) that have been built upon the Meridium
APM Mobile Sync Services platform.

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Meridium APM Mobile Sync Services

A solution for Meridium APM handheld applications (e.g., Operator Rounds) that is built
upon the Microsoft Sync Framework. The Meridium APM Mobile Sync Server provides a
connection between handheld devices and the Meridium APM Application Server so that
data can be synchronized between the devices and the Meridium APM database.

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Meridium APM System Administration Tool

A tool that provides an interface for specifying settings in configuration files that are
used by Meridium APM components. You can use this tool to set up and configure your
Meridium APM system.

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Meridium APM Web Framework

The Meridium APM software that is installed on a web server and allows users to access
Meridium APM via a web browser (e.g., Internet Explorer). The Meridium APM Web
Framework is similar in appearance and behavior to the Meridium APM Framework
application but offers only some of the functionality that is available through the
Meridium APM Framework application.

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Meridium APM Web Framework Server

The computer in your system where the Meridium APM Web Framework software is
installed. The Meridium APM Web Framework Server may be the same computer as the
Meridium APM Application Server, or it may be a different physical workstation.

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Meridium APM Web Services

A solution that allows you to extract, transform, and load data. Using Meridium APM
Web Services you can build custom applications or integrate with third-party ETL tools
to manage data between Meridium APM and your CMMS or other data source.

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Meridium RCMO®

Meridium RCMO®
A web-based application that allows you to conduct RCM and FMEA Analyses on equip-
ment and systems in your facility. The Meridium RCMO® application is integrated with
SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM).

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Metadata

Metadata
Data about data. In Meridium APM, the term metadata refers to the data that defines
Meridium APM data. For example, entity family metadata is the information that defines
an entity family, such as the family caption and physical table name. Typically, users
interact with metadata via an interface designed for that purpose. But Meridium APM
metadata can be managed and manipulated in its raw form via the Import/Export
Metadata tool in the Configuration Manager.

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Metric View

Metric View
A multi-dimensional metric cube that has been saved with some parameters selected
(e.g., dimensions and levels) so that it can be viewed repeatedly using the same criteria.

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Metrics and Scorecards

The Meridium APM module that integrates performance management theory with soph-
isticated data analysis tools to prompt and facilitate actions that will improve organ-
izational performance. The main tools that you will use within the Metrics and
Scorecards module include Metric Views, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and Score-
cards.

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Minimum Thickness (T-Min)

In pieces of equipment that corrode or wear down over time, a value that serves as a
recommendation for when the asset should be discarded. Assets that wear down past
the minimum thickness create an unacceptable safety or failure risk.

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Module

Module
A group of functionality and metadata that supports a certain set of features and work
processes. Meridium APM is segmented into different modules, each of which is
licensed separately and requires activation. Examples of Meridium APM modules
include Metrics and Scorecards, RCM, and Inspection Management.

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Multi-Value Fields

Multi-Value Fields
Fields that can contain more than one value. The number of values allowed in a multi-
value field is determined by the Number of Values Per Field property, which can be
defined for each field in the Configuration Manager application. Multi-value fields can
be useful in cases where you want fields to store multiple, yet distinct, values. Character,
date, and numeric fields can be configured to contain more than one value. Binary, text,
and logical fields can not be configured as multi-value fields.

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NERC

NERC
North American Electric Reliability Corporation

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.NET Framework

.NET Framework
The Microsoft operating system platform on which Meridium APM is developed.

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North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)

North American Electric Reliability Corporation

(NERC)
An organization that develops and enforces standards for the power industry and mon-
itors the performance of North American energy producers. For more details, visit
http://www.nerc.com/.

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Operating System (OS)

A program that provides the software platform on top of which other programs can run.
Meridium APM runs on the Windows® operating system.

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Operator Rounds

Operator Rounds
A module that lets you transfer data between the Meridium APM Framework application
and a handheld device. Using Operator Rounds, you can track routes and readings for
measurement locations and create recommendations based on those readings.

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Oracle EBS eAM Intefaces

A feature that allows you to transfer data between your Oracle EBS eAM system and
your Meridium APM system.

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OS
Operating System

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PLA

PLA
Production Loss Accounting

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PMO

PMO
Preventive Maintenance Optimization

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Policy Manager

Policy Manager
A Meridium APM module that allows you to develop and execute strategies based upon
historical data and dynamic data, which is obtained by monitoring conditions in real
time. Using Policy Manager, you can define policies that:
l Retrieve information about current conditions.
l Allow you to identify emerging trends of an asset.
l Apply some logic to that data based on historical trends.
l Initiate actions that will mitigate future risk.

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Predecessor

Predecessor
In a relationship definition, the family that is the first part of the rule. The predecessor
family is usually the single part (piece of equipment [predecessor] has many pieces of
sub-equipment) or exists before the successor (plant itself [predecessor] exists before
equipment [successor] is installed).

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PROACT® for Meridium

A methodology that allows you to conduct a root cause analysis using the Meridium
APM RCA module. The acronym PROACT represents the following steps, where we have
capitalized the letters that make up the acronym:
l PReserve failure data.
l Order the analysis.
l Analyze failure data.
l Communicate findings and recommendations.
l Track and reevaluate.

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Proactive Maintenance

Proactive Maintenance
A maintenance strategy where repairs are performed based on the root cause of failure
with a goal of reducing or eliminating potential future failures.

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Process Data Integration

A Meridium APM Framework feature that allows you to collect data from OPC-compliant
process historians, which are specialized databases used for recording real-time pro-
cess data, such as temperature or pressure. For example, Process Data Integration
allows you to collect data from the PI Server software, which is a process historian
developed by OSIsoft.

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Production Analysis

Production Analysis
A type of Reliability Analysis that allows you to evaluate the reliability of the process in
which individual pieces of equipment are involved. Production Analyses analyze pro-
duction output data to help you see patterns in the output and to determine the reli-
ability of the process as a whole. Production Analyses provide a visual representation of
production output and allow you to quantify the production loss and the cost associated
with it.

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Production Loss Accounting (PLA)

The Meridium APM module that allows you to:
l Enter production data on a daily basis.
l Identify production losses and associate them with the production events that
caused them.
l Determine what types or categories of events cause your company to lose the
most production.
By entering and evaluating production data, you can more easily identify ways in which
you can reduce unplanned downtime and increase production in the future, which will
result in reduced cost and increased profit.

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PRT

PRT
Production resource/tool

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Public Folder

Public Folder
A folder in the Catalog that is available to all users who have the proper access per-
missions. You can specify that an item (such as a record or query) be stored in a Public
folder when you save the item.
All users automatically have Execute permissions to all items that are stored in the
Public Catalog folder or any subfolder within the Public folder. This means that users
can open and execute Catalog items (e.g., queries and reports) as a part of any workflow
or by using any hyperlink (e.g., a Home Page link or a link on the Associated Pages
menu). To access items through the Catalog itself or to save or modify items in the
Public folder, however, users must be granted explicit permissions to the Public folder
in the Catalog.

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Query

Query
A feature that lets you question the database. Query results provide the answers to your
question. Via the Query Builder or the query design, you can construct expressions to
query the database about anything that is tracked through records in the Meridium APM
system. Several types of queries, from basic to advanced, are available to suit multiple
purposes.

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Query Builder

Query Builder
A tool that takes you step-by-step through creating a query by prompting you to answer
questions regarding the content of the query you want to create. The query is then gen-
erated and displayed in the query design, where it can be edited.

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RCA

RCA
Root Cause Analysis

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RBI

RBI
Risk Based Inspection

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RCM

RCM
Reliability Centered Maintenance

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Recommendation

Recommendation
A record that suggests or advises that some action be performed. A recommendation is
not as definite as a task because, while it serves to advise that some action be per-
formed, it does not necessarily ensure that the action will be scheduled and executed.
Various features in Meridium APM use Recommendation records, including Inspection
Management and Reliability. In most cases, where Recommendation records are used
by a specific module, the module has its own Recommendation family, such as the Reli-
ability Recommendation family. In RCM and FMEA Analyses, RCM FMEA Recom-
mendation records participate as a node on the analysis tree.

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Record

Record
A record is a set of data that represents a physical entity, which can be things such as:
l Equipment.
l Locations (physical, functional, and organizational).
l People.
l Events (e.g., inspections, failures, shutdowns, maintenance requests, recom-
mendations, and repairs).
l Stages of a project.
l Job descriptions.
l Elements of a workflow.
l Drawings.
l Processes.
You can access records in many ways throughout the Meridium APM Framework applic-
ation and in the Meridium APM Web Framework. The Record Manager and the Bulk
Data Form, however, are always available regardless of the module with which you are
currently working.

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Record Hierarchy

Record Hierarchy
A Meridium APM feature that provides a visual representation of the records in the data-
base and how they relate to one another. The record hierarchy can be displayed in the
standard Record Explorer pane or a pane that is configured to display a customized
view of records using a configured explorer.

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Record ID

Record ID
The term that is used in various places in the Meridium APM products and throughout
the Meridium APM documentation to refer to the ENTY_ID field in a record.
See also ENTY_ID.

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Record Manager

Record Manager
A data-management tool that combines explorer and datasheet functionality to let you
view, modify, create, and delete records in the Meridium APM database.

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Reference Documents

Reference Documents
A file or website external to Meridium APM that is referenced in a Reference Document
record, which can be linked to another record in the database.

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Relationship Family

Relationship Family
A family that exists for the purpose of defining the relationship between two entity fam-
ilies. A relationship family stores the relationship definitions and fields that will be used
to create links between records in the Meridium APM database.
See also Relationship Definition.

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Relationship Definition

Relationship Definition
For a specific relationship family, a rule that specifies which two entity families are
related, which family is the predecessor, which family is the successor, and the car-
dinality of each. Relationship families can contain multiple relationship definitions.
See also Relationship Family.

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Reliability Analytics

Reliability Analytics
The Meridium APM module that applies reliability-engineering principles in order to
help you make tactical (short term) and strategic (long term) decisions for maintenance
and operational asset management activities.

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Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)

The Meridium APM module based upon the Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
method, that stresses the value of maintaining or preserving the function as opposed to
maintaining a piece of equipment for the purpose of preserving the piece of equipment.
That is, as long as the function is preserved, a complete failure of a piece of equipment
may be acceptable. RCM provides a means for determining optimal maintenance and
operational strategies, based on the probability and consequence of the analyzed failure
modes.

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Reliability Distribution Analysis

A tool that determines the probability of failure at a certain point in time. There are four
types of Distribution Analysis available in the application: Weibull, Normal, Lognormal,
and Exponential.

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Reliability Growth Analysis

A Reliability Analysis that describes changes in the reliability of components with time
and predicts future failure time.

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Remoting

Remoting
A communication infrastructure that uses the HTTP protocol over the IIS port (usually
port 80) to connect client workstations to the Application Server.

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Report

Report
A way of formatting a query, search, or other data for display, export, or printing pur-
poses. Reports can be saved to the Meridium APM Catalog and executed repeatedly.

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Risk Assessment Feature

The Meridium APM feature that allows you to assess:
l The probability that a failure will present safety, environmental, operational, or fin-
ancial risk.
l The severity and cost of the risk if it were presented.
The Meridium APM Risk Assessment feature is a combination of:
l An interface that displays a risk matrix and other risk information.
l Entity families, relationship families, and records that determine:
n The values that you will see in the risk matrix.
n The calculations that will be performed based on the values that you select.
Meridium APM provides a set of baseline records that determine the values that you will
see on the interface and the calculations that are performed on those values. You can
access this interface through modules such as:
l Asset Strategy Management (ASM)
l Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
l Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

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Risk Assessment Interface

A component of the Meridium APM Risk Assessment feature that displays a risk matrix
and other risk information. You can access the Risk Assessment interface in various
places throughout Meridium APM. The way in which you access it will determine the win-
dow title that appears on the interface. For example, when you access the interface
from an RCM FMEA Failure Effect node in the RCM Explorer pane, the window is titled
Unmitigated Risk Assessment. When you access it by creating a new Risk in ASM, how-
ever, you will see the Create Risk Wizard, in which the second step displays the risk mat-
rix and other risk information.
Throughout this documentation, we use the term Risk Assessment interface to refer gen-
erically to the window that displays the risk matrix and other risk information.
The Risk Assessment interface will contain different items depending on how you access
it.

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Risk Based Inspection

The Meridium APM module that allows you to analyze the risk of an asset's components
failing due to specific degradation mechanisms. Using RBI, you can set up RBI Systems
to organize the components that you want to analyze. Within an RBI System, you can
begin creating RBI Analyses for each of the RBI Components that belong to the RBI Sys-
tem. Each analysis will yield values indicating the overall risk of the RBI Component fail-
ing due to the degradation mechanisms that are defined for it.
After you conduct an RBI Analysis, if the risk values are unacceptable, you can analyze
hypothetical scenarios using What If Analyses and Future Risk Analyses to see how addi-
tional actions or factors might affect the risk. For example, you might create a What If
Analysis to see what the risk level would be if you changed the operating pressure. Or,
you might create a Future Risk Analysis to see what the risk level might be in five years.
Based on the analysis results, you can create RBI Recommendation records to capture
recommended actions that might lower the risk associated with an RBI Component. You
can then create Task records or SAP Notifications from those RBI Recommendation
records to track the work and make sure that the recommended actions are imple-
mented.
After the recommended actions are implemented, you can conduct a new RBI Analysis
to determine if the new operating procedures or environment have actually reduced the
risk.

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Risk Matrix

Risk Matrix
A tool that allows you to make selections that are used in calculations to determine an
overall risk rank value.
Meridium APM provides a baseline risk matrix that you can use when evaluating risk.
This risk matrix displays values that are configured in records that Meridium APM
provides. In addition, the values that you select in the risk matrix are used in cal-
culations, which are also determined based on the values in these records.
In Meridium APM, the risk matrix is displayed in the Risk Assessment interface, which is
a component of the Meridium APM Risk Assessment feature.

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Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

The Meridium APM module that lets you use the PROACT® for Meridium APM meth-
odology to create an RCA Analysis, which allows you to track and analyze causes of asset
failures. When you use RCA, you are using Meridium APM tools to facilitate a standard
process that is based on the PROACT methodology.

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Rules

Rules
Code that controls the behavior of records and fields.

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Rule Project

Rule Project
A group of code items and rules stored in Microsoft Visual Studio for Applications. Each
Meridium APM family and strategy has its own rule project.

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Rules Editor

Rules Editor
A tool that allows you to create basic logical rules. Rules support all Visual Basic .NET
operations. To execute a strategy, the system uses the inputs and the rule logic and gen-
erates outputs. Super Users and members of the MI SM Administrator Security Group
can customize the rule logic in the Rules Editor. The Rules Editor used in the Strategy
module is the Microsoft® Visual Studio for Applications editor.

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Rules Library

Rules Library
A repository of rule projects that can be defined and referenced within other code. The
Rules Library allows you to define rules in one central location and use and extend
those rules wherever they are needed.

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Safety Instrumented System

A system that is comprised of instruments that are designed specifically to:
l Monitor the conditions of a process.
l Recognize conditions that are indicative of failure.
l Prevent risks by reacting to conditions that are indicative of a failure.
Safety instrumented systems make adjustments to the process to bring the conditions
to a mitigated state or even shutdown that process to prevent failures.
A safety instrumented system consists of the following items:
l One or more protective instrument loops.
l One logic solver.
Using the Meridium APM SIS Management module, you can track the safety instru-
mented systems that exist in your facility.

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Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Analysis

In SIS Management, an analysis that you can conduct to assess the safety instrumented
systems in your facility to ensure that they are adequately safeguarding your assets and
processes. A SIL Analysis consists of a SIL Analysis records and all the records that are
linked to that record, directly or indirectly. When you conduct a SIL Analysis, you will
assess the safety integrity level of a safety instrumented system by evaluating the risk
and risk levels associated with each instrumented function that exists for that safety
instrumented system.

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SAP Interfaces

SAP Interfaces
The Meridium APM Framework Feature that allows you to transfer data between your
SAP system and Meridium APM. Using the SAP Integration Interfaces module, you can:
l Transfer the following data from SAP to Meridium APM:
n Equipment
n Functional Location
n Notification
n Maintenance Order
l Transfer Recommendation records from Meridium APM to SAP in the form of Noti-
fications.
l Manage Calibration and Inspection Task records in one of two ways:
n Create the Task records in Meridium APM and transfer the data to SAP. This
option allows you to update records in Meridium APM and transfer the
updates to SAP.
n Create and manage the data in SAP and transfer it to Meridium APM as Task
records. This option allows you to make updates in SAP and transfer the
updates to Meridium APM.

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Schedule Manager

Schedule Manager
The Administrative Application where you can view and manage all the schedule items
that exist in Meridium APM.

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Schema

Schema
The database structure, defined in terms of the structure of tables and fields and the
relationship between them. For example, Meridium APM schema refers to the structure
of the Meridium APM database.

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Scorecard

Scorecard
A tool that allows the tracking of important data, including perspectives, objectives, and
KPIs that are associated with objectives. A scorecard addresses the four perspectives
that should be monitored within an organization, and any others that will help to
increase company performance.

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Security User

Security User
A user account that stores information about an individual in your organization and
allows that person to log in to and use the Meridium APM system. A Security User
account stores the user's ID and password, which is used for authenticating the user at
login. A user account can also store identifying information, such as the individual's
name and contact information and details about that person's job within your organ-
ization.

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SIS Management

SIS Management
A Meridium APM module that lets you manage the safety instrumented systems that are
in place in a facility to monitor and maintain controlled processes and ensure efficiency
and safety during those processes. Using SIS Management, you can conduct a Safety
Integrity Level (SIL) Analysis, which you can use to assess the safety integrity level of the
safety instrumented systems that are already in place in your facility and to uncover
areas that may require further safeguarding.

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Site Map

Site Map
A navigational tool that provides a visual indication of your current location in the
Meridium APM Framework application. You can click a link in the Site Map to go to the
associate page. For example, the Site Map is outlined in red in the following image.

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SP
Service Pack (e.g., V3.3.0 SP1)

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Spares Analysis

Spares Analysis
A type of Reliability Analysis that uses delivery time and cost, downtime, lost production
costs, and failure and repair data to calculate how many spare parts should be kept on
hand at any given time.

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SQL Server Analysis Services

A Microsoft application that delivers analytical processing and data mining functionality
for business intelligence applications by letting you design, create, and manage mul-
tidimensional structures (cubes) that contains data aggregated from other data sources.
Meridium APM supports SQL Server Analysis Services for use with Metrics and Score-
cards.

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SQL Server Reporting Services

A Microsoft application that provides server-based reporting functionality for a variety of
data sources.

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Start Page

Start Page
Meridium APM Framework Start Page
The page that appears to you when you first log in to the Meridium APM Framework.
You can configure nearly any page in the Meridium APM Framework application to be
your start page.
Module Start Page
A page in the Meridium APM Framework application that serves as the starting point for
all the functions that you can perform in a given module.

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State Configuration

State Configuration
The combination of states, operations, and rules that dictate a record's available states
and the transitions that can be used to change the state. State Configuration is defined
via the Configuration Manager application. Meridium APM provides a baseline State Con-
figuration on several families, and you can define State Configuration on any family of
your choice.

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Strategy

Strategy
The combination of a Strategy record and the associated rules, which together determ-
ine what should happen when the Strategy is executed.
While a Strategy record can exist without any associated rules, any Strategy that does
not have at least one rule will not do anything. A Strategy is classified as one of two
types:
l Base Strategy.
l Sub-Strategy of a Base Strategy.

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Strategy Rule

Strategy Rule
A rule that is associated with a specific Strategy record and tells Meridium APM when
and how to carry out a specific action.

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Subfamily

Subfamily
The child of a parent family.

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Super User

Super User
A user who has permission to access all features and perform administrative functions
in the Meridium APM system. Super users are defined as such in their user records in
the Configuration Manager.

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System Administrator

System Administrator
The person responsible for maintaining your multi-user computer system. Generally,
the system administrator is responsible for installing software, maintaining the physical
components of the system, and managing user accounts.

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System Code Tables

The tables that store System Codes.

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System Codes

System Codes
Defined in the Configuration Manager, the System Codes are used throughout the applic-
ations to display lists of valid values, populate drop down lists, and otherwise limit or
define data. The System Code consists of a table that contains a group of codes and the
codes themselves.

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System Reliability Analysis

The analytical characterization of a system model. It usually includes a Monte Carlo sim-
ulation that runs through several iterations of potential failures of the system com-
ponents over a given period of time. The simulation can present the probable reliability
of an existing system. By modifying the model, what if scenarios can be applied to
gauge the impact on reliability.

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Task Management

Task Management
The Meridium APM module that facilitates the management of Task records that are gen-
erated as the output of other Meridium APM modules or as the output of Meridium
APM Strategies. If a task is defined as an output of a Strategy, Meridium APM will gen-
erate the Task record when that Strategy is executed.

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Task Menu

Task Menu
A menu that appears on the left side of the page in the Meridium APM Framework
application and the Meridium APM Web Framework and contains various options that
apply to the current page. For example, in the Meridium APM Framework application,
two task menus are available on the Search page: Search Type and Common Tasks.

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TCP

TCP
Transmission Control Protocol

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Thickness Measurement

Thickness Measurement
A specific reading that is taken and recorded for a given TML. Each TML can have one or
more Thickness Measurements associated with it. Thickness Measurements are recor-
ded for each TML over time to allow you to monitor the corrosion of a piece of equip-
ment.

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Thickness Measurement Location (TML)

In Thickness Monitoring, a record representing a specific place on a piece of equipment
where Thickness Measurements will be taken and for which minimum thickness cal-
culations can be performed.

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Thickness Monitoring (TM)

The Meridium APM module that allows you to document, manage, and analyze cor-
rosion data for physical plant equipment. Meridium APM Thickness Monitoring provides
you with the tools that you need to monitor the corrosion of pieces of equipment in
your plant and take preventative actions that will help you avoid the economical, envir-
onmental, and human costs of corrosion failures.

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Title Bar

Title Bar
The area at the top of a window or dialog box and provides a name for the application
or feature and, in most case, provides a minimize, maximize, and close button.
Throughout the Meridium APM documentation, we use the label in the title bar to
identify windows, pages, dialog boxes, and screens throughout the Meridium APM sys-
tem.

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T-Min Calculator

T-Min Calculator
A tool designed to calculate the pressure minimum thickness for a datapoint or asset.
The resulting values may be used in the corrosion rate, next inspection date, and retire-
ment date calculations. Data returned by a query from the asset, datapoint, and task
datasheets are used to perform minimum thickness calculations. The results provided
are the calculated pressure minimum thickness, structural minimum thickness, and a
user-defined minimum thickness. The calculator will choose the most conservative
value, but you can enter a value based upon your knowledge of the codes and system.

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TM
Thickness Monitoring

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TM Analysis

TM Analysis
In Thickness Monitoring, a term used to describe the records and links that are involved
in conducting a corrosion analysis. To conduct a corrosion analysis on a piece of equip-
ment, you must:
1. Identify the piece of equipment to analyze.
2. Establish TMLs on that piece of equipment.
3. Collect measurement data for those TMLs.
In the Meridium APM Thickness Monitoring module, you will complete these tasks by
creating records, populating them with the desired information, and linking them
together to establish relationships between them. As you complete these tasks,
Meridium APM will create other records automatically to store calculations based upon
the records that you created. In the Meridium APM documentation, we refer to ALL
these records and links collectively as a TM Analysis.

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TML

TML
Thickness Measurement Location

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Toolbar

Toolbar
A feature of the user interface that contains buttons, which let you perform various
tasks. For example, the Meridium APM Framework toolbar contains 11 buttons: Back,
Forward, My Start Page, New, Search, Catalog, Query, Report, Graph, Dataset, Dash-
board.

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Type-Ahead

Type-Ahead
In lists, a feature that offers to complete a word that is only partially typed in. In some
cases, the entire word is displayed, and in others only the options that match the text
you type appears. This feature is also referred to as auto complete orautofill.
For example, in the Search In list on the Search page, when you begin typing a family
name, the family name that begins with the letters you type will appear in the text box
as you type.
Another example of this feature can be found in a drop-down list field in a record,
where if you begin typing a value that appears in that list, the value will be selected auto-
matically in the list.

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Unit of Measure (UOM)

A property of numeric fields that indicates the units associated with the value(s) stored
in that field. While values can be stored only in one UOM (i.e., the UOM defined for a
given field), they can be converted for display into any UOM for which an appropriate
conversion has been defined.

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Unit of Measure Conversion Set

A group of UOM conversions that allows you to specify how values that are stored in
one UOM will be converted for display in another UOM for one or more users.

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Unit of Measure Conversions

Values defined in the Configuration Manager that convert one unit of measure to
another. For example, you might define a unit of measure conversion to convert inches
to centimeters.

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UOM

UOM
Unit of Measure

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URL

URL
The abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator, which is an address that identifies a
resource and specifies the method (i.e., the scheme) that will be used for accessing that
resource. In Meridium APM, the term URL refers to addresses that identify documents
in Meridium APM and the scheme that specifies that these documents should be
opened in Meridium APM. Meridium APM URLs are internal to Meridium APM and use
the scheme meridium. In the same way that web-based URLs can be used to launch
pages in web browsers, Meridium APM URLs can be used to construct links that launch
features in Meridium APM. For example, the URL meridium://Inspection will launch the
Inspection Manager Start Page in the Meridium APM Framework. In addition, Meridium
APM supports the use of URLs that employ the http scheme for launching webpages
from the Meridium APM applications.

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URL Manager

URL Manager
The Meridium APM application that is used to register URLs and to manage Associated
Pages.

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URL Path

URL Path
The portion of a URL that specifies the main area that will be accessed by the URL. For
example, in the following URL, the path is shown in bold: meridium://Thick-
nessMonitoring/Analysis?EntyKey=2808497.

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User

User
A generic term used to refer to any person who uses the software. When used alone, his
term does not denote any specific information about the person's permissions, priv-
ileges, or responsibilities in the system.
See also Administrative User, Super User, System Administrator, Security User.

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Visual Basic.Net (VB.Net)

The programming language in which Meridium APM rules are written. The VB.Net code
for family rules projects, Rules Library projects, and Strategy rules can be viewed and
modified using VSTA, the tool that Meridium APM provides as the rules-authoring inter-
face.

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Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA)

The tool that serves as the interface where you can view and modify all the VB.Net code
in a given rule project. This tool is accessible via the Configuration Manager and serves
as the interface for viewing and modifying both family rule projects and Rules Library
Projects. In addition, Meridium APM provides an optional component called VSTA for
Strategy which can be installed on non-administrative Client workstations to provide
users with access to Strategy rules.

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VSTA

VSTA
Visual Studio Tools for Applications

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Work Process

Work Process
A set of tools and processes designed to help you achieve a focused APM objective. The
Meridium APM solution includes five work processes:
l APM Foundation Work Process
l Asset Strategy Work Process
l Asset Safety Work Process
l Failure Elimination Work Process
l Mechanical Integrity Work Process

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Workspace

Workspace
The area on the right side of the Meridium APM Framework main window. The options
and controls in the workspace are specific to the page that you are currently viewing.
For example, in the following image, the Spares Analysis workspace is outlined in red.

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XML

XML
Extensible Markup Language

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