Uptime正常运行时间
Uptime is the percentage of planned production time during which a piece of equipment or a line is actually operating and available for work, rather than stopped for failure, setup, or idling. In manufacturing documentation it appears in overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) reports, maintenance dashboards, service contracts, and capacity planning, where translators must distinguish scheduled uptime from total calendar time.
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Where this term appears
Uptime typically appears in translated maintenance manuals, OEE dashboards, service-level metrics, and production reports. Translators handle it in KPI tables, shift summaries, and troubleshooting guides, where it accompanies figures, formulas, and targets. Terminology work often involves clarifying the exact denominator—planned time, calendar time, or shift time—so the translated metric does not shift meaning.
Translation checks
A frequent mistranslation is rendering “uptime” as “availability” or as total running time without checking whether the source denominator is planned production time, calendar time, or shift time. That causes real confusion in OEE and service-level texts, where availability and reliability may be separate KPIs. Another error is literal “up time” splitting or using “正常运行时间” in contexts that imply runtime only, losing the scheduled-time ratio.
Keep the term aligned across your files
Check equipment names, units, safety instructions and interface labels against the source and approved references. Confirm any market-specific document requirements separately.
Provide approved terms and previous translations with the source files. Agree how variants, ambiguous wording and revisions will be reviewed. Terminology maintenance and any termbase handback are confirmed in the project scope. See the 8-step AI + expert workflow.
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