Maintenance Management

Maintenance Management

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Maintenance Management

CONTENTS
•Meaning
•Impact of poor maintenance
•Objectives of maintenance
management
•Areas of Maintenance
• Preventive maintenance
•Types of maintenance
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 Maintenance Management

Meaning

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 Meaning: Maintenance Management
Maintenance Management

Maintenance:
It is that function of production management
which is concerned with the day-to-day
problem of keeping the physical plant in good
operating condition.

Maintenance Management:
It is concerned with the direction and
organisation of resources in order to control
the availability and performance of the
industrial plants to some specified level.
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 Meaning: Maintenance Management
Maintenance Management

In simple words it is a function of production

management related to the task of keeping
the machinery, equipment and plant
services in proper working condition.
It includes:
• maintenance planning,
• maintenance scheduling,
• execution of maintenance activities
(repairs, break down and preventive
maintenance)
• controlling costs of maintenance.
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Maintenance Management

Impact of poor
maintenance

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 Impact of poor maintenance
Maintenance Management

• Under-utilization of capacity
• High production costs
• Product and service quality
• Employee or customer safety
• Customer satisfaction

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Objectives of
maintenance

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 Objectives of maintenance
Maintenance Management

• Minimizing the loss of productive time because of

equipment failure
• Minimizing the repair time and repair cost
• Minimizing the loss due to production stoppages
• Effective use of maintenance personnel and equipments.
• Prolonging the life of capital assets by minimising rate of
wear and tear.

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 Objectives of maintenance
Maintenance Management

• To keep all productive assets in good working condition

• Optimum utilisation of facilities,
• Reduce possibilities of accidents
• To improve quality of product or service
• To minimize the total maintenance cost that includes:
- Cost of repairs
- Cost of preventive maintenance
- Inventory carrying cost due to stoppage of work

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 Maintenance Management

Areas of
maintenance

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 Areas of maintenance
Maintenance Management

• Civil maintenance: building, facilities such as water, gas, steam,

compressed air, heating and ventilating, air conditioning, painting, plumbing
and carpentry work, house keeping, scrap disposal, fencing, land scaping,
gardening, fire fighting equipments.

• Mechanical maintenance: machines and equipments, transport

vehicles, material handling equipments, boilers, steam generators,
compressors. Lubricating machines is also a maintenance activity.

• Electrical maintenance: maintaining generators, transformers,

switch gears, motors, telephone systems, lighting, fans, chargeable
batteries etc.

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Types of
maintenance

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 Preventive Maintenance
Maintenance Management

A stitch in time, saves nine.

• This is undertaken before the need arises and aims to minimize the
possibility of unanticipated production interruptions or major break
downs.
• It consists of:
1.Proper design and installation of equipment
2.Periodic inspection of plant and equipment to prevent breakdowns
before they occur.
3.Repetitive servicing, upkeep and overhaul of equipment
4.Adequate lubrication, cleaning and painting of building and equipments.

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 Types of Maintenance
Maintenance Management

• Corrective Maintenance: It takes place when there is a work

stoppage because of machine break down.

• Predictive Maintenance: Sensitive instruments like vibration

analyzers, audio gauges, pressure, temperature and resistance
gauges are used to predict trouble.

• Routine Maintenance: It includes running maintenance and shut

down maintenance

• Planned Maintenance: when maintenance is carried out according

to the schedules, it is called planned maintenance

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