Unit 1

Introduction: Maintenance Objectives and Functions; Maintenance Organisation

and
Administration of Maintenance Systems. Need of planned maintenance.
Maintenance
policies; Breakdown, time based maintenance: Block replacement, age
replacement and
periodic replacement policy. Corrective and preventive maintenance. Maintenance
planning,
Scheduled maintenance. Cost of maintenance versus Cost of equipment and
production
delays. Inspection: Inspection intervals, Inspection reports, card history system.
Unit 2
Predictive maintenance. Equipment wear records, standards. Equipment used in
predictive
maintenance. Computerized maintenance, Total Productive Maintenance. Methods
of
condition monitoring, Non-destructive testing, Liquid Penetrate, Magnetic
particles,
Ultrasonic testing, and Vibration analysis. Oil analysis, Radiographic testing.
Unit 3
Reliability: Definition, failure data analysis, Mean failure rate, mean time to failure
(MTTF),
mean time between failures (MTBF) , hazard rate, Bathtub curve. Use of Weibull
probability
chart foe assessing characteristics life, guarantee period etc.
Unit 4
System reliability: Series, parallel and mixed configuration; Simple problems.
Reliability
improvement: Techniques, use of Pareto analysis-Design for reliability,
redundancy unit and
stand by redundancy, Optimization of reliability.
Unit 5
Spare Parts Management: Spare parts, features and categorization of spares, cost
considerations, Techniques of cost reduction; Selective controls used in spare parts
control;
ABC analysis, FSN, XYZ, VED and other approaches. Inventory control of spares