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MEE 301 Maintenance Management
Module content
UNIT I: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF MAINTENANCE PLANNING
Basic Principles of maintenance planning – Objectives and principles of planned maintenance activity – Importance and benefits of sound Maintenance systems – Reliability and machine availability – MTBF, MTTR and MWT – Factors of availability – Maintenance organization – Maintenance economics.
UNIT II: MAINTENANCE POLICIES – PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE
Maintenance categories – Comparative merits of each category – Preventive maintenance, maintenance schedules, repairs cycle - Principles and methods of lubrication – TPM.
UNIT III: CONDITION MONITORING
Condition Monitoring – Cost comparison with and without CM – On-load testing and off-load testing – Methods and instruments for CM – Temperature sensitive tapes – Pistol thermometers – wear-debris analysis
UNIT IV: REPAIR METHODS FOR BASIC MACHINE ELEMENTS
Repair methods for beds, sideways, spindles, gears, lead screws and bearings – Failure analysis – Failures and their development – Logical fault location methods – Sequential fault location.
UNIT V: REPAIR METHODS FOR MATERIAL HANDLING EQUIPMENT
Repair methods for Material handling equipment - Equipment records –Job order systems -Use of computers in maintenance. TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
REFERENCES:
1. White E.N., “Maintenance Planning”, I Documentation, Gower Press, 1979.
2. Garg M.R., “Industrial Maintenance”, S. Chand & Co., 1986.
3. Higgins L.R., “Maintenance Engineering Hand book”, McGraw Hill, 5th Edition, 1988.
4. Armstrong, “Condition Monitoring”, BSIRSA, 1988.
5. Davies, “Handbook of Condition Monitoring”, Chapman &Hall, 1996.
6. “Advances in Plant Engineering and Management”, Seminar Proceedings - IIPE, 1996.