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CHAPTER 5
Elements of Maintenance
Technology
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 Broadly speaking, the elements in a

maintenance technology can be

Elements of classified as
maintenance attendance
technology
servicing and
 repair.
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 Attendance is the right way of avoiding

maloperating which influences the damages and
indirectly the maintenance.
Attendance  Fundamentals in the right use :
proper use of operating instructions provided
(operation) in operators manuals;
proper use of service instructions given in
service instructions; and
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following proper maintenance

procedures and instructions as
outlined in maintenance manuals.

Knowledge of these instructions is

Cont…….
essential in attending the machine. In this
respect qualification of operators,
maintenance personnel and
management is a requirement
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 activities required periodically to keep an item

in proper operating condition, i.e., to clean
(includes decontaminate) to preserve, to drain,
to paint, or to replenish fuel, lubricants,
Servicing chemical fluids, or gases.

 Lubrication is introduction of any of various

substances between sliding surfaces to reduce
wear and friction;
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To determine the serviceability of an item by

comparing its physical, mechanical, or
electrical characteristics with established
standards through examinations using the
Cont……. methods:-
Testing
Adjusting
Align
cleaning
lubricating
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 It means continuously testing and checking to

ascertain serviceability, also to detect and

Testing component characteristics degradation

 Generally means to manually test / break the

application so as to find flaws or defects in it.
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 To verify serviceability by measuring the

mechanical or electrical characteristics of an
item and compare those characteristics with
prescribed standards.
Cont…..  So that when it is rolled out for production, our
customer / any users, will not have any issue
with the product.
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 To maintain, within prescribed limits, by

bringing into proper or exact position, or by
setting the operating characteristics to specified
parameters.

Adjusting  There could be periodical tweaking(adjust

finely) of specified variable elements of an
asset for the purpose of achieving the optimum
system performance
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 Alignment means adjusting of center line of

two components parts to coincide.

 To adjust specified variable elements of an item

to bring about optimum or desired
performance.
Align  Sometimes, it will also include making some
changes of an asset’s specified variable
elements for the purpose of achieving optimum
performance
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 Cleaning is penetration of dust, dirt deposited

and others which accelerate the wear processes
and corrosion of machine components. hence
cleaning makes the preliminary maintenance
element.
Cleaning  Cleaning should be done in short time interval
and the means used for cleaning should not be
corrosive and should not damage paints,
working surface and other things.
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 Accessories that are used to assist

cleaning of machinery are:
water jet
Cont……
Steam jet
Compressed air
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 Lubricating means process putting lubricant on some

thing such as part machine to help them move smoothly.

 The main purposes of lubricant in machinery are:

Reducing friction between mating surface in relative

lubricating motion

Transfer of heat generated

Prevention of dust and other material from entering

into the working environment
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In applying lubricants, taking good care of

filters is of great importance. The task of filters

is to separate wear products and contaminants

from the lubricant to reduce wear process.

Cont…….
We can use Different types of filters like

oil filters

air filters etc

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 Repair is the totality of measures of restoration with the

aim of determined final state, or quality, or condition of
equipment.

 OR The application of maintenance actions including

Repair installation
fault location/troubleshooting
disassembly /assembly procedures,
 and maintenance actions
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 During the process of maintenance, limited-life

components or assets experiencing time cycle or
Installatio wear degradation should be immediately replaced
n prior to failure to avoid breakdown and maintain
the specified system tolerance.
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 It is a mechanism of allocating the position of failure or

damage in machine.

 It helps to identify the location of the problem

Classification of repair activities is based on various

considerations. These considerations are:
Troubleshooting time related to breakdown
number of elements involved in the repair task,
nature of repair activity,
territorial, or labor involved
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 to identify troubles and restore serviceability to an item

by correcting specific damage, fault, malfunction, or
failure in a part, sub-assembly, module (component or
assembly), end item, or system.

 The main repair activities are:

Cont….  replace
Overhaul
Rebuild
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 It is a process of changing defected part/ item from machine

 Or it is correcting maintenance by changing improper performing

item or system with the proper one in order to increase the efficiency

Replace of the machine

 Or To remove an unserviceable item and install a serviceable

counterpart in its place.
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 Maintenance effort /action prescribed to restore an item

to a completely serviceable/operational condition as
required by maintenance standards in appropriate
technical publications.
Overhaul
 Overhaul is normally the highest degree of maintenance
performed by the industry.

 Overhaul does not normally return an item to like new

condition.
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 Rebuild consists of those actions necessary for the restoration of

unserviceable equipment to a new-like condition in accordance with
original manufacturing standards.

 Rebuild is the highest degree of material maintenance applied to any

Rebuild equipment.

 Rebuild operation includes the act of returning to zero those age

measurements (hours/Km, etc.) considered in classifying
equipment/components. Reconditioning, renovation or other such terms
are also used for rebuild.
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