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Fault reporting
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<p>Fault reporting is a maintenance concept that increases <a href="/facts/Operational_availability/Fv0LqtmQ">operational availability</a> and that reduces <a href="/facts/Operating_cost/NfSrjkGD">operating cost</a> by three mechanisms: </p> <ul><li>Reduce labor-intensive diagnostic evaluation</li> <li>Eliminate diagnostic testing down-time</li> <li>Provide notification to management for degraded operation</li></ul> <p>That is a prerequisite for <a href="/facts/Condition-based_maintenance/oBDB9khj">condition-based maintenance</a>. </p><p><a href="/facts/Active_redundancy/X4sETmfo">Active redundancy</a> can be integrated with fault reporting to reduce the down time to a few minutes per year. </p>