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Subject Code:A58014
QUESTION PAPER
ANURAG GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS
(Autonomous)
School of ENGINEERING
III-B.Tech II-Semester End Examinations, july-2021
Subject: MAINTENANCE AND SAFETY ENGINEERING
Time: 3 Hours Max.Marks:75

Section – A (Short Answer type questions) (25Marks)

 Answer all questions

UNIT-I
1. Enumerate the purpose of maintenance management? 3M

2. What are the objectives of equipment maintenance 2M

UNIT-II
3. What is preventive maintenance? What are its elements? 2M

4. What are the major corrective maintenance downtime components? Explain in brief.
3M
UNIT-III
5. What are the objectives of Inventory control 2M

6. What are the factors on which the requirement for safety stock depends? 3M

UNIT-IV
7. State any four uses of Quality Control Charts in Maintenance Work 2M

8. List at least six reasons for maintenance costing. 3M

UNIT-V
9. List RCM program components? 2M
10. Why is maintainability so important during the system life cycle? 3M

P.T.O
 Section – B(Essay Type questions) (5*10=50 Marks)

 Answer all questions, each question carry equal marks.

UNIT-I
11. a) What are the key features of engineering maintenance? Explain its significance in 21st
century? 10M
OR
b) How can a manager evaluate the effectiveness of a maintenance function? Explain two
indices that can be used to evaluate the overall performance of a maintenance organization
10M
UNIT-II

12. a) i) Discuss important steps for developing a Preventive Maintenance program.?

ii) What are the important questions that can be asked to determine the adequacy of a
Preventive Maintenace program? 10M
OR
b) “Reduction in corrective maintenance time is useful to improve maintenance effectiveness”
.Explain various measures associated with corrective maintenance time? 10M
UNIT-III
13. a) What is ABC inventory control? Describe the ABC classification approach? 10M
OR
b) i)What are different inventory control models? Explain economic lot size model with
uniform rate of demand, finite rate of replacement and having no shortage.
ii) A piece of equipment has 30 parts of a specific type with a failure rate of 20 failures per
million hours of operation. Assume that the equipment is operated continuously throughout the day
and night and the spares are restocked every 4 months. Calculate the probability of having a spare
part available when required, if only 4 spare parts are carried in inventory. (5M +5M)
UNIT-IV

14. a) Describe the role of safety officer in maintenance work. Explain the guidelines to
improve safety in maintenance work. 10M
OR
b) i)Explain the method of estimating the maintenance labour cost and material cost?
ii) Assume that a machine is scheduled to operate for 3000 h annually. The machine mean time
between failures and mean time to repair are 600 h and 15 h, respectively. Calculate the annual
labor cost of corrective maintenance if the labor cost is Rs. 500 per hour (5M +5M)
UNIT-V

15. a) i) Explain Reliability Measures and Formulas? (5M +5M)

ii) What are Reliability Analysis Techniques? Explain human Reliability analysis?
OR
b) i) What is Maintainability? How is maintainability of system measured?
ii) Discuss the Common errors related to Maintainability Design? (5M +5M)