The conventional analysis of station oriented availability cannot detect the mutual dependence and manipulation of interlaced production facilities sufficiently. In the following article the character and the development of losses in interlaced production facilities will be described and furthermore they will be observed under the prospect of risk management. After viewing the aspects of drop out costs a procedure for determining interlaced losses from recorded data of operating conditions will be dis-cussed. Afterwards a method for integrating this information into the key figure system of TPM will be presented.
