downtime
Definition
Period during which an equipment or machine is not functional or cannot work. It may be due to technical failure, machine adjustment, maintenance, or non-availability of inputs such as materials, labor, power. Average downtime is usually built into the price of goods produced, to recover its cost from the sales revenue. Opposite of uptime. Also called waiting time.
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downtime is in the Accounting & Auditing and Industries, Manufacturing, & Technology subjects.
downtime appears in the definitions of the following terms: inherent availability, resource management, robust, uptime, total cost of ownership (TCO), economic price, reliability coefficient, availability, available hours and active repair time
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