Aim - To develop knowledge and skills on process equipment maintenance techniques.

Objectives

- Appreciate maintenance objectives and evaluate various maintenance strategies for process plant application.
- Critically analyze the functions of preventive maintenance and develop necessary planning and scheduling and control of preventive.
- Understand the advanced concepts such as RCM and TPM techniques and advantages for a company employing them.

Course Work Description:
Maintenance plays a very important role in all kind of manufacturing industries. Each maintenance has its characteristics, importance and drawbacks. Performance of a machine, depends on the type of maintenance strategies employed on it. Machines used in industries need proper maintenance because failure of machine may cause the production loss. Maintenance technique may vary from one machine to another machine because of the various conflicting factors like safety, cost, customer satisfaction etc. Factors affecting machines performance need to identify and control. Use of inappropriate maintenance plan may increase the maintenance cost. Increase in maintenance cost will increase the production cost. Selection of a maintenance approach to a particular machine or group of machines is a problem of decision making and it is always a challenging task for maintenance Manager/Engineer.

Each student will be assigned with a research paper from a reputed journal and is expected to critically evaluate while covering the following task:

a. Problems that has been addressed
b. Maintenance methodology/concepts that has been adopted
c. Critical analysis on maintenance approach
d. Implementation of statistical tools
e. Conclusion and recommendation made by the authors.

Reliability-Centered Maintenance Methodology and Application: A Case Study by Islam H. Afefy