QUESTION 1

(a) What do you understand by Maintenance strategy?

(b) Name 4 common Strategies and briefly describe them

(c) What are the steps that can be taken to improve Maintenance strategies?

QUESTION 2

(a) What are the measures employed to achieve the correct level of operational reliability and best possible safety at minimum cost?

(b) Show, in the form of a flow chart, how effective maintenance helps in achieving an increase in profitability?

QUESTION 3

(a) Define Critical Path and CPM.

(b) Define Networks & Network scheduling?

(c) Construct the network diagram comprising activities B,C,...Q and N such that the constraints are satisfied :

B< E,F ; C < G,L ; G < H; L,H

The notation X

QUESTION 4

It is said that "Maintenance can be efficient only if the organization, systems and working methods associated with it are also efficient. Explain and justify this statement?

QUESTION 5

Name the types of faults that cannot be detected at a sufficiently early stage by condition monitoring?