Elements of maintainability

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• Maintenance Management
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• Attempt any five questions
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• 1. What do you understand by fixed time
  maintenance/Preventive periodic maintenance?
  Discuss about commonly used preventive
  maintenance tasks.
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• 2. Highlight the importance of maintenance
  costing. What are the steps involved in costing
  of maintenance department? Also discuss the
  classification of maintenance costs according to
  their nature, function and other characteristics.

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• 3. "The liberalized economy is forcing Indian
  companies to establish Total Quality Management
  Systems. It is a struggle, which has just begun
  and Indian companies will continue to do so Just
  to be in the race - lest they perish. Quality
  will be just a qualifier, not a competitive
  advantage any more". Do you agree? Why? Discuss
  it with respect to maintenance perspective.
• 4. What do you understand by a Non-linear Hazard
  model? Discuss the Weibull distribution and its
  use in reliability estimation and failure
  diagnosis. Also highlight the relationship
  between ß and the possible causes of failure.

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• 5. What are the benefits of implementing
  Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)? Discuss
  the misconceptions about RCM and pitfalls in
  implementing RCM.
• 6. What are the key result areas that can be
  covered in a maintenance audit? Give some indices
  for maintenance materials management performance.
  What is the main difference of auditing result
  areas- compared to auditing management processes?

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• 7. Write short notes on any four of the
  following
• Design-out maintenance
• Six stages of life cycle of spare parts
• Elements of maintainability
• The "Bath-tub" curve
• Determination of optimal preventive replacement
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