OM 0015 – MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT

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ASSIGNMENT

DRIVE	SPRING 2016
PROGRAM	MBA
SEMESTER	IV
SUBJECT CODE & NAME	OM 0015 – MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT
BK ID	B2008
Credit & Marks	4 CREDIT, 60 MARKS

Note: Answer all questions. Kindly note that answers for 10 marks questions should be approximately of 400 words. Each question is followed by evaluation scheme.

Question.1.  Write short notes on the following:

a. Proactive Maintenance

Answer:Proactive maintenance is a preventive maintenance strategy for stabilizing the reliability of machines or equipment. It has two parts:

    Preventive maintenance

    Predictive maintenance

               

b. Planned Maintenance Work Cycle

Answer:Use Equipment/Plant Maintenance to plan, monitor, and complete routine maintenance operations. When you use Equipment/Plant Maintenance, you can minimize equipment breakdowns and unscheduled repairs.

When you use Equipment/Plant

c. Maintenance organising schedule

Answer:Organizing your daily schedule is something that you know needs to be done, but where exactly does one start? A lot of people see time management as a super-power – there’s surely no way that a mere mortal could fit it all in between 9 and 5! But effectively organizing your daily schedule at work is simple if you have a plan, and it’s a skill that anyone can learn. These four guiding principles will help you while organizing your daily schedule.

Think Before You Act: What does the start of your

d. Areas of Maintenance Practices

Answer:Establishing best practices in production maintenance is an achievable goal. But it’s a goal that many talk about but few achieve. So why is it so difficult? And, why are so many manufactures still running at over 90 percent reactive?

Many blame it on the age of their manufacturing

Question.2. What do you mean by Asset Strategy? Explain briefly Steps Involved in Developing an AssetStrategy.

Answer:Strategic Asset Management involves managing the capital investment towards a long-term program of increasing the ROA. This is a top-down function of setting a performance specification for each major operating unit, identifying the critical components of performance, and systematically improving the key controllable variables of operation.

Managing assets strategically involves every function

Question.3. Assume you are the head of the maintenance department in a manufacturing organisation.You are assigned a responsibility of implementing a maintenance improvement program. Whatcomponents would you include in the maintenance improvement program?

Answer:Many confuse availability with equipment reliability. In reality, it is only one part of the calculation. Availability is the actual time that the machine or system is capable of production as a percent of total planned production time. Availability rate should not be confused with overall availability. The latter is calculated using total calendar time as the divisor, not planned production time.

Question.4. What do you mean by Machine Quality? Which Aspects are to be Considered for MachineQuality?

Answer:In business, engineering and manufacturing, quality has a pragmatic interpretation as the non-inferiority or superiority of something; it is also defined as fitness for purpose. Quality is a perceptual, conditional, and somewhat subjective attribute and may be understood differently by different people. Consumers may focus on the specification quality of a product/service, or how it compares to competitors in the marketplace. Producers might measure the conformance quality, or degree to which the product/service was produced correctly.

Question.5. Write short notes on the following

a.Zero based budgeting

Answer:Zero-based budgeting is an approach to planning and decision-making that reverses the working process of traditional budgeting. In traditional incremental budgeting, departmental managers justify only variances versus past years based on the assumption that the "baseline" is automatically approved. By contrast, in zero-based budgeting, every line item of the budget, rather than only the changes, must be approved. Zero-based budgeting requires that the budget request be re-evaluated thoroughly, starting from the

b. Remote maintenance audit

Answer:It manages complexity and enables security by providing a single platform from which to manage remote access policy and connections. Our high-definition network security auditing goes beyond federal vendor access requirements. Multiple levels of identification and authentication, agency defined access and control, comprehensive IT security audit reporting, and real-time monitoring capability for every remote support session all work together to provide easily verifiable proof of compliance.

c. Codification of spare parts

Answer:Codification / cataloguing is basically an identification system for each item of the inventory. There are often three broad approaches to developing a suitable identification system:

1.Arbitrary approach:As the name suggests,this approach does not use any design for codification. Rather, as and when an item is received by Stores in its receiving bay, a running and unique serialnumber is assigned to it. This number becomes

d. Maintenance Benchmarking

Answer:Benchmarking has become a common practice in all kinds of businesses, but nowhere is it more prevalent than in manufacturing. The idea of measuring yourself against the best is an attractive one -- one that the gurus say can lead to breakthroughs in how you run your business. But like many other great ideas, benchmarking can lead to frustration and disappointment if it isn't approached with proper understanding.

Question.6. Discussion questions:

1. Which condition monitoring techniques have been used to improve plant maintenance atXYZ?

Answer:Condition monitoring (or, colloquially, CM) is the process of monitoring a parameter of condition in machinery (vibration, temperature etc.), in order to identify a significant change which is indicative of a developing fault. It is a major component of predictive maintenance. The use of condition monitoring allows maintenance to be scheduled, or other actions to be taken to prevent failure and avoid its consequences. Condition monitoring has a unique benefit in that conditions that would shorten normal lifespan can be addressed before they develop into a major failure. Condition monitoring techniques are normally used on rotating

2. Do you think that the implementation of condition monitoring techniques is the rightdecision of XYZ? Justify your agreement/disagreement

Answer:Condition monitoring is the process of determining the condition of machinery while in operation. The key to a successful condition monitoring programme includes:

    Knowing what to listen for

    How to interpret it

    When to put this knowledge to use

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