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Maintenance Engineering Assignment

The document discusses maintenance engineering concepts including different maintenance strategies and their advantages/disadvantages, the equipment lifecycle curve, developing an effective maintenance management system, defining maintenance and maintenance engineering, benefits of a good maintenance system, total productive maintenance and its 8 pillars, defining a plant register and inventory system, ABC analysis, maintenance management terms like MTTF and MTBF, calculating failure rate, distinguishing between repairs and replacements, and analyzing data on street light failure rates to determine the optimal replacement interval.

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Maintenance Engineering Assignment

The document discusses maintenance engineering concepts including different maintenance strategies and their advantages/disadvantages, the equipment lifecycle curve, developing an effective maintenance management system, defining maintenance and maintenance engineering, benefits of a good maintenance system, total productive maintenance and its 8 pillars, defining a plant register and inventory system, ABC analysis, maintenance management terms like MTTF and MTBF, calculating failure rate, distinguishing between repairs and replacements, and analyzing data on street light failure rates to determine the optimal replacement interval.

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Maintenance engineering assignment

1. Distinguish between any 4 types of maintenance strategies, sighting advantages and disadvantages of
each. (20)

2. a) draw the equipment life cycle curve and discuss the various phases in it. (6)

b) As a maintenance engineer, write to management on how an effective maintenance management


system can be developed, outlining the resources you would need at each stage. (14)

3. a) Define maintenance (2)

b) Explain the role of maintenance engineering in an organisation as it thrives to achieve its


organisational goals. (7)

c) Differentiate maintenance and maintenance engineering (4)

d) What are the benefits of a good maintenance management system in an organisation? (7)

4. a) define total productive maintenance (TPM) (4)

b) Describe the 8 pillars of total productive maintenance (16)

5. a) define a plant register (2)

b) Identify the 4 benefits of a good plant register (4)

c) Describe briefly any 2 methods used to record assets (4)

d) What is inventory? (3)

e) How does a well-documented inventory system improve the maintenance function of a production
organisation? (4)

f) Briefly explain the ABC analysis using suitable mathematical models (3)

6. Briefly explain the following terms and abbreviations as applied in maintenance management

a) MTTF (2)

b) MTBF (2)

c) MTTR (2)

d) Availability (3)

e) Reliability (3)

f) Maintainability (3)
g. A company puts 50 units on test and run at their normal operating conditions for 1000 hours.6 units
are found to fail after the following hours 550, 480 , 680, 790, 860 and 620.

i) Calculate the percentage failure rate of the product (2)

ii) Calculate the failure rate per hour (3)

Solution

λ= 1/MTBF (or 1/MTTF)

7. a. Distinguish between repairs and replacement in maintenance engineering (2)

b. The Bulawayo City Council has 7000 solar street lights in the city, the maintenance engineer has
recorded the failure rates as shown in table Q

Table Q. Recorded failure rates.

Year 1 2 3 4 5

% Failing at the 10 25 50 80 100


end of the year

The maintenance contractor charges $100.00 to replace an individual bulb on failure ,$40.00 per bulb
when replacing all the bulbs at the same time .it is under proposal to replace all the bulbs at fixed
intervals of time, whether or not the bulbs have burnt out or to replace immediately burnt out bulbs

i) Determine and justify the time interval at which all the bulbs should be replaced. (15)

ii) suggest possible reasons why the maintenance contractor charges more to replace
individual bulbs than all the bulbs (3)

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