karbantart

Karbantart, commonly written as karbantartás in standard Hungarian, refers to the activities and processes aimed at maintaining facilities, equipment, and systems in a condition that ensures safe, reliable, and efficient operation. In practice, karbantart encompasses planning, inspection, servicing, repair, and replacement tasks performed to prevent failures and extend asset life. The term is often used informally or as a stem in compound terms, while karbantartás is the normative noun.

Karbantart practices are typically organized into several approaches. Preventive maintenance schedules regular servicing based on time or usage. Predictive maintenance uses data from condition monitoring to forecast when maintenance should occur. Corrective maintenance responds to failures or performance degradation when they occur. In software and information technology, maintenance also includes adaptive and perfective activities to keep systems compatible with changing requirements and improve functionality.

The maintenance process commonly involves asset inventory, work-order planning, task execution, and documentation. Organizations often deploy CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems) to track assets, schedule tasks, manage spare parts, and collect performance metrics. Key performance indicators include mean time between failures (MTBF), mean time to repair (MTTR), equipment availability, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).

Benefits of effective karbantart include reduced unplanned downtime, improved safety, longer asset life, and stable operation. Challenges include upfront costs, balancing maintenance with production needs, data quality, and skilled workforce requirements. While karbantartás is the standard term in Hungarian, karbantart is still encountered in informal writing and in some industry jargon as a shorthand for maintenance activities.

See also: karbantartás, maintenance, TPM, RCM.