critical equipment meaning
Critical equipment is any piece of equipment which, if its function failed, would compromise regulatory requirements or the ability to keep the property safe, stop production, or negatively impact quality. A piece of equipment is not usually considered âcriticalâ if redundancy is available. If an extended outage is encountered this may be cause for reassessments & revisions to the Critical Equipment List. Critical equipment process and equipment selection follows the Maintenance Process. The record to document the rationale or calculation to determine whether an asset is âcriticalâ is the Asset Criticality Calculation Record Sheet IDENTIFYING CRITICAL EQUIPMENT