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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 isapreventive maintenance strategyforstabilizing 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.Whenyouuse Equipment/PlantMaintenance,youcanminimize equipmentbreakdowns
and unscheduled repairs.
When you use Equipment/Plant
c. Maintenance organising schedule

2. Answer:Organizing your daily schedule is something that you know needs to be done, but where
exactlydoesone 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 manytalk aboutbut fewachieve.Sowhy 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:StrategicAssetManagementinvolvesmanagingthe capital investmenttowards a long-term
program of increasingthe ROA.Thisisa top-downfunctionof settingaperformance specificationfor
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 latteriscalculatedusing total calendar time as the divisor, not planned production
time.

3. 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
differentpeople. Consumers may focus on the specification quality of a product/service, or how it
comparesto competitorsinthe marketplace.Producersmightmeasurethe 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
automaticallyapproved.Bycontrast,inzero-basedbudgeting, every line item of the budget, rather
than onlythe changes,mustbe approved.Zero-basedbudgetingrequiresthatthe budgetrequestbe
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
monitoringcapabilityforeveryremote supportsessionall worktogethertoprovide easily verifiable
proof of compliance.
c. Codification of spare parts
Answer:Codification/cataloguingisbasicallyanidentificationsystemforeachitemof 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

4. Answer:Benchmarkinghas 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 leadtobreakthroughsinhow 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
conditioninmachinery(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
conditionmonitoringallows maintenance to be scheduled, or other actions to be taken to prevent
failure andavoiditsconsequences.Conditionmonitoringhasaunique benefitinthatconditionsthat
wouldshortennormal lifespancanbe addressedbefore theydevelopintoamajorfailure. 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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