Interchange

All actions performed as a result of failure to restore an item to a specified condition. These can include any or all of the following steps: localization, isolation, disassembly, interchange, reassembly, alignment, and checkout. Corrective maintenance provides a process to identify and implement the set of tasks to restore an item to service after a failure.

The ability to interchange, without restriction, like equipment or portions thereof in manufacture, maintenance, or operation. Like products are two or more items that possess such functional and physical characteristics as to be equivalent in performance and durability, and are capable of being exchanged one for the other without alteration of the items themselves or of adjoining items, except for adjustment, and without selection for fit and performance.