physical location where an item is likely to be used among several identified locations in a product or system or in several products or systems

Note 1 to entry: An item may have several points of use that will facilitate shared management of spare parts and will limit the number of items to be stored.

Note 2 to entry: The point of use has an impact on the type of maintenance of the item.

Note 3 to entry: The configuration management takes into account the notion of point of use in the configuration control process.

Note 4 to entry: Not to be confused with the use case.

Go to the French version: point d'emploi