MBEYA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT: ELECTRICAL AND POWER ENGINEERING

COURSE NAME: ELECTRICAL MAINTENANCE
COURSE CODE: EE 8110
GROUP NO: 03
TASK: GROUP ASSIGNMENT
GROUP PARTICIPANTS

SN NAME CA NO SIGNATURE

1 JOSEPH R JOSEPH CA/BEEE/20/10346

2 EMMANUEL M SAMA CA/BEEE/20/7258

3 JACKSON G LUVANDA CA/BEEE/20/7184S

4 MISUNGWI K JULIUS CA/BEEE/20/7164

5 MRISHO M RUBASE CA/BEEE/20/

6 MACHIBULA M JOSEPH CA/BEEE/20/10347

7 MUSTAPHA M SALUM CA/BEEE/20/7257

8 SAID KH SAID CA/BEEE/20/7255

9 EVA J SHABAN CA/BEEE/20/7265

10 FELISTA E JONAS CA/BEEE/20/7162

A. List down and briefly explain the four reasons of carrying maintenance.?
 To increase functional reliability of production facilities. Aimed at performing
maintenance to increases performance of the device or machine , e.g. changing oil on
a car machine
 To maximize useful life of the equipment. Proper regular maintenance increases the
lifespan of an equipment hence runs efficiently during its usual life cycle.
 To enhance the safety of the manpower. Regular maintenance of devices and
equipment expose hidden faults which can be fixed thus preventing any sort of man
power loss e.g. Airplanes must be regularly undergoes electrical as well as mechanical
maintenance that when damaged or experience any kind of fault the can cause
accidents that leads to the loss of man power
 To minimize the total production cost . Maintenance of production equipment in
industry or a factory increases the life span of a the equipment being used thus
reducing the need to buy new equipment as a result of failures, the same equipment
can be used for a lo0ng period of time with maximum efficiency

B. Explain the key conditions to monitor in condition monitoring maintenance.?

(i). Knowing what to listen for;
-: Machines contains partially or totally mechanical moving parts which produce
noise(sound &vibration); a healthy operating machine produce no or minimum sound and
vibration which abruptly changes or increase as a result of fault or damage to some machinery
parts, The change in vibration and sound produced maybe an indicator that the machinery is
experiencing some faults in the system which can be fixed early.
(ii). How to interpret it:
-: After listening to a vibration /sound changes produced by the machine, vibration are
interpreted through its magnitude in order to detect the path/location where the fault might be.
(iii) when to put the knowledge to use:
-: This knowledge can be put into use when maintenance of the instrument or machine
C. State any three Advantages of condition monitoring.?
1. Enables the repair of problem component prior to failure
2. Helps plant personnel to reduce the possibility catastrophic failure
3. Increases lifespan of machinery
4. Lowering maintenance
 5. Maximizing production output
D. Discuss the two ways of troubleshooting elimination .
1. The serial method
: - Is the technique used by troubleshooter to check for frequently encountered or easily
tested conditions first Example, Checking to ensure that a printer light is on and that its cable is
firmly seated at both ends.
2. The half-splitting method
:- Is a technique used in fault finding to locate defects with a few measurements. Essentially the
technique involves splitting the circuit path into halves and troubleshooting from the middle of
the first half then the second and so on.