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What Is Maintenance Management?

Maintenance refers to activities focused on keeping physical plant and equipment in good working condition, such as inspection, lubrication, repair, and overhauling. The objectives of maintenance management include minimizing equipment downtime and repair costs, as well as maximizing efficiency and productivity through preventative maintenance. Common areas of maintenance include civil, mechanical, and electrical systems, and maintenance can be addressed through corrective, preventative, predictive, routine, and planned approaches.

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What Is Maintenance Management?

Maintenance refers to activities focused on keeping physical plant and equipment in good working condition, such as inspection, lubrication, repair, and overhauling. The objectives of maintenance management include minimizing equipment downtime and repair costs, as well as maximizing efficiency and productivity through preventative maintenance. Common areas of maintenance include civil, mechanical, and electrical systems, and maintenance can be addressed through corrective, preventative, predictive, routine, and planned approaches.

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What is Maintenance?

Maintenance: A function of production management, that is concerned with day -to-day problem of keeping the physical plant in good working condition. What is Maintenance Management? Maintenance management: Is Concerned with planning, organising and directing the resources in order to control the availability and performance of the industrial plants to some specified level.

Maintenance
Inspection Lubrication Repair Overhauling Salvage

Objectives of Maintenance Management


he following are some of the ob!ectives of maintenance management. ". Minimi#ing the loss of productive time because of e$uipment failure %i.e., minimi#ing idle time of e$uipment due to break down&. '. Minimi#ing the repair time and repair cost. (. Minimi#ing the loss due to production stoppages. ). *fficient use of maintenance personnel and e$uipments. +. o keep all productive assets in good working condition.

+. ,rolonging the life of capital assets by minimi#ing the rate of wear and tear. -. /. 0. o ma.imi#e efficiency and economy in production through optimum use of facilities. o minimi#e accidents through regular inspection and repair of safety devices. o minimi#e the total maintenance cost which includes the cost of repair, cost of preventive maintenance and inventory carrying costs due to spare parts inventory. o improve the $uality of products and to improve productivity.

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Areas of Maintenance
". Civil Maintenance '. Mechanical Maintenance (. *lectrical Maintenance

Types of Maintenance
In all the above stated areas, organisation may use any or all the five types of maintenance.
2reak down maintenance or corrective maintenance, ,reventive maintenance, ,redictive maintenance, 3outine maintenance, ,lanned maintenance.

Break-down-Maintenance: Corrective or remedial maintenance that occurs when e$uipments or machines fail and must be repaired on an urgent basis. reventive maintenance: Maintenance activities under taken before the machines or e$uipments fail. Aims to minimise the possibility of unanticipated or ma!or break-downs.

redictive Maintenance: Modern approach to preventive maintenance using sensitive instruments to predict anticipated failure of machines and e$uipments.

!o"tine Maintenance: his includes activities such as periodic inspection, cleaning, lubrication, and repairs. #anned Maintenance: Maintenance activities that are carried out according to a predetermined schedule. Also known as scheduled maintenance or productive maintenance.

Maintenance o#icy
Maintenance policy is concerned with: ". *.tent of maintenance activities and.
'. 4i#e of the maintenance department.

$conomies of Maintenance
At the optimal level of maintenance preventive maintenance cost e$uals breakdown maintenance cost.

Tota# rod"ctive Maintenance


otal ,roductive Maintenance: Combines total $uality management concept with strategic view of maintenance from process and e$uipment design to preventive maintenance.

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