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Maintenance Management
Maintenance © 1995
Corel
Corp.
Performance
To yield:
Reduced inventory
Improved quality
Improved capacity
Reputation for quality
Continuous improvement
Maintenance Benefits
Lower
operating Faster, more
Reduced
costs dependable
inventory
throughput
Continuous Improved
improvement quality
Tactics for Maintenance
Reliability Tactics
improving individual components
providing redundancy
Maintenance Tactics
implementing preventive maintenance
increasing repair capabilities
Evaluating Maintenance
Reliability
Probability that an item will function for a given
time
Mean time between failures (MTBF)
Average time between failures of a repairable
item
Failure rate
Reciprocal of MTBF
Failure Rate (%)
Number of failures
FR(%) = * 100%
Number of units tested
Maintenance Decisions
How much preventive & breakdown
maintenance
Contract maintenance
Used if little equipment or expertise