June, 2010
Ms-57 : Maintenance Management
1. What are the life cycle cost components for any plant ? How can maintenance affect the life cycle profits of any equipment and plant ?
2. What are the important components of a maintenance organization ? Name the key issues affecting the maintenance organization structure.
3. Briefly describe the concept of reliability, maintainability and availability. Why it is said that 100% reliability of all components of a machine or equipment is not always aimed to achieve ?
4. Discuss the internal customer concept with reference to maintenance activities in a typical Indian Organization. Should maintenance activities be integrated into the operator's daily workload ?
5. "Overhauling of plant and equipment constitutes an important part of the preventive maintenance effort of a manufacturing organization". Discuss.
6. What is condition-based maintenance ? What are the key steps involved in implementing condition based maintenance in any plant ?
7. Write short notes on any two of the following :
(a) Reliability Centred Maintenance.
(b) CMMS Modules.
(c) Constant Hazard Model.
(d) Importance of Maintenance Audit.
