maintenance strategies assignment
Question 1. Asset Life Plans (18 marks)
Utilising the Top Down Bottom Up Approach (TDBUA) for a critical asset identify MAXIMUM 50 components and prepare a life plan for the identified components from within your organisation. Both mechanical and electrical components should be incorporated within your answer.
In your response you should include references to discussions with relevant persons within the organisation along with tables and diagrams where appropriate to support your discussion.
1.Construct a process flow diagram and establish an asset inventory for asset determined critical to the organisation. (as per section 8.2.2)
2.Detail the asset/unit operating characteristics and the production policy of the identified asset (as per section 8.2.2)
3.Assemble the identified maintenance tasks in the form of a unit life plan (as per Table 6.9 and Table 8.3)
4.Based upon the implemented maintenance strategy determine and outline the need for spare parts inventory items for theasset/unit.
Question 2. Preventative Maintenance Optimisation (17 marks)
Using an analytical methodology carry out an optimisation of the current preventative maintenance tasks of an asset determined as critical from the criticality analysis of Question 1 of Assignment 2.
1.Outline the optimisation process (Reliability Centred Maintenance - RCM,Failure reporting and corrective action system (FRACAS) or Judgement based approach)utilised to determine the most effective PM optimisation methodology for the selected asset.
2.Determine and outline in tabular form the current preventative maintenance schedule for the selected asset.
3.Carry out an evaluation and optimisation of the current preventative maintenance schedule removing elements of,
otasks that fail to add value or actually create problems through the application of intrusive tasks,
oambiguity of maintenance tasks,
oelimination of redundant time-directed tasks currently being completed using condition monitoring/predictive maintenance tasks,
oRefinement of tasks to eliminate tasks that can be completed utilising TPM.
4.Provide a table comparing the previous preventative maintenance schedule and theoptimised preventative maintenance schedules.
5.Provide a discussion and outline in a table the preventative maintenance tasksrepositioned within a developed TPM program.
Question 3. Lean Principles (16 marks)
Identify and discuss the application of lean principles within the maintenance strategies of the student’s organisation. Your answers should be supported by Diagrams, Figures and Tables,
1.Identify and discuss of 5 lean philosophies,
2.Outline and discuss the application of lean philosophies utilised within the maintenancestrategies of the student’s organisation.
3.Utilising root cause analysis techniques determine the root cause of an unplanned downtime event associated with a critical asset within the authors organisation. Your answer should include:
a.Description of asset.
b.Description of the unplanned event along with asset downtime and cost to rectify the downtime event.
c.Description of investigation team and team members.
d.Description of root cause analysis technique.
e.Outcome of root cause analysis.
Grammar and Technical Presentation (4 marks)
Assessment Criteria
This is a criterion -based assessment item. Please note that it is highly recommended that you read beyond the course materials to complete assessment items. Your submission for this assessment will be evaluated by the following criteria.