CMRP Body of Knowledge Guidance Course

CMRP Practice Questions – Pillar: 2

Choose Either A,B,C or D in the following questions:

1. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a method To achieve maximum equipment effectiveness

through:
a. Transforming operators into skilled tradesmen.
b. Developing an effective maintenance program.
c. Employee involvement through small group activities.
d. Designing an effective workplace with minimum allowable breakdowns.

2. In a critical process plant which of the following can be used as a measure of equipment
performance between planned shutdowns.
a. Inherent Availability
b. Achieved Availability
c. Operational Availability
d. Asset utilization

3. What is the best criterion for changing a known and controlled variable to meet a new customer
requirement?
a. Engineering analysis
b. Operator and maintainer experience
c. Senior management directive
d. Reliability and maintainability analysis

4. To achieve improved OEE

a. Operation department should maintain operational availability
b. Engineering department should study how to improve assets maintainability
c. Operations and Maintenance must work as a team.
d. Maintenance department should implement effective maintenance strategy.

5. Which of the following most effectively makes up the members of a Manufacturing Team?
a. Sales/Customer/Production/Supplier/Senior Management
b. Maintenance/Engineering/Production/Human Resources
c. Production/Maintenance/Supplier/Engineering
d. Senior Management/Production/Human Resources

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6. A Machine with design capacity of 200000 ton/year, last years production data were as shown
in the below table.
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
190000 Ton 220000 Ton 180000 Ton 200000 Ton 190000 Ton
Last year actual performance was 200000 Ton.
When calculating OEE for that year, what is this machine performance percentage that will be
used?
a. 80.1%
b. 90.9%
c. 100 %
d. 110.6%

7. Which of the following sentences is true regarding statistical process control?

a. Every output measure has a target value and a level of accepted variation
b. SPC uses all existing measures to estimate the mean and variation
c. We can use SPC charts in identifying root causes of problems
d. SPC gives you the ability to closely quantify only the selected sample quality.

8. The correct sequence for dealing with gaps in performance resulted from benchmarking of the
reliability program is to be:
a. Identified, quantified, interpreted, corrected and communicated.
b. Identified, quantified, interpreted, communicated and corrected.
c. Identified, quantified, communicated, interpreted and corrected.
d. Identified, communicated, quantified, interpreted and corrected.

9. A manufacturing facility with big idle time. Which KPI can be affected and leads to identifying a
certain deficiency due to this idle time.
a. Availability
b. OEE
c. TEEP
d. MTBM

10. One important benefit of operations involvement in the maintenance program is to:
a. Increase the skill levels of operations .
b. Reduce needed maintenance workforce and maintenance costs.
c. Increase stakeholder contributions to asset maintenance.
d. Improve plant (facility) housekeeping and decrease contractors.

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