maintenance courante

English translation: Routine maintenance

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French term or phrase:	Maintenance courante
English translation:	Routine maintenance
Entered by:	Richard Flight

13:19 Mar 11, 2002

French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering / Refineries

French term or phrase: maintenance courante

Job description for a "maintenance courante" engineer in an oil refinery.

Full job description is:
"ensuring uninterrupted installation availability while optimising costs and concurrently guaranteeing all safety, environmental and quality-related criteria are fulfilled, scheduling and co-ordinating maintenance work, establishing new maintenance contracts, etc.

Is it Scheduled Maintenance or Preventive Maintenance?

Richard Flight KudoZ activity Questions: 138 (none open) Answers: 40 France
Local time: 09:13

routine maintenance

Explanation:
routine maintenance

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Note added at 2002-03-11 13:31:52 (GMT)
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i.e. everyday maintenance
Tache courante

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Note added at 2002-03-11 13:32:15 (GMT)
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i.e. everyday maintenance
Tache courante

Selected response from:

Rebecca Lowery
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:13

Grading comment

Thanks, and please pardon late grading!

4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +9

routine maintenance

Rebecca Lowery

ongoing maintenance

Lise Boismenu, B.Sc.

Maintenance schedule

ALI DJEBLI

running maintenance

Steven Geller

general everyday maintenance

Olivier Roland

current maintenance

Yakov Tomara

everyday maintenance/ running repairs

Rachel Carrée

Answers

2 mins confidence:

ongoing maintenance

Explanation:
HTM

Lise Boismenu, B.Sc.
Canada
Local time: 03:13
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in pair: 328

8 mins confidence:

Maintenance schedule

Explanation:
ex:etablir le calendrier de maintenance...

ALI DJEBLI
United States
Local time: 03:13
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

French
PRO pts in pair: 79

9 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +9

routine maintenance

Rebecca Lowery
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:13
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 78

Grading comment

Thanks, and please pardon late grading!

18 mins confidence:

running maintenance

Explanation:
running maintenance

From Termium...

Anglais :Métiers

ASR1 VMS 16 Operation and Running Maintenance s CORRECT

311.40 s CORRECT

OBS - The trade specialty qualification code is 3

Français :Métiers

ASR1 VMS 16 Fonctionnement et maintenance courante s CORRECT

311.40 s CORRECT

OBS - Le code de qualification de spécialiste (métiers) est 311.40. s

Here are some examples

Key Indicators--The Measure of Reliability -
... is outside of ***running maintenance*** such as changing oil ... ñ helping the reliability
engineer at a specific location ... MTBF. One large oil refinery measures MTBF by ...
www.pump-zone.com/articles/articles/key-ind.htm

MUFTI JUNAID ULLAH -
... REFINERY LTD. (Joint venture ADNOC ... A highly successful engineer, coordinator and
team player ... Modified and improves existing ***running maintenance*** schedules and ...
taurus.ubishops.ca/~mullah/Bio-Data.html

[DOC] 1. INTRODUCTION
Format de fichier: Microsoft Word 2000 -
... and some waste materials such as refinery gases, process or agricultural waste ... reliable
and require minimal ***running maintenance***. Shutdown maintenance is ...
www.cogen.org/Downloadables/Projects/EDUCOGEN_Cogen_Guide.d...

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agree Dusty: Yes, I\'ve come across this term like this too; it\'s usually maintenance that takes place without complete shutdown (insofar as that is possible)

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agree Dusty: Yes, I\'ve come across this term like this too; it\'s usually maintenance that takes place without complete shutdown (insofar as that is possible)

Steven Geller
Local time: 09:13
PRO pts in pair: 1246

22 mins confidence:

general everyday maintenance

Explanation:
Its another idea.I'm guessing myself

Olivier Roland
France
Local time: 09:13
PRO pts in pair: 33

50 mins confidence:

current maintenance

Explanation:
Also widely used

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Note added at 2002-03-11 14:12:45 (GMT)
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Both scheduled and preventive maintenance IMO may be part of current maintenance work.

Yakov Tomara
Local time: 10:13
Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in pair: 228

1 day 19 hrs confidence:

everyday maintenance/ running repairs

Explanation:
both mean maintenance from day to day - i prefer the latter

Rachel Carrée
Local time: 08:13

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