Sana'a University Maintenance Fundamentals

Faculty of Engineering 1st semester 2017 / 2018

Mechanical Engineering Dept. Mid-term Exam
Fifth Year Date: /1/ 2018, Time: 2.0 Hours

‫نوع االنتساب‬ :‫الرقم األكاديمي‬ :‫االسم‬

20 ‫الدرجة من‬
Answer the following questions
Question 1: Define the following terms: (2.5 Marks)
a) Maintenance:
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b) Predictive maintenance:
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c) Lubricant:
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d) Prioritizing:
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e) Scheduling:
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Question 2: Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F). (6 Marks)
1) ( ) Reliability is the probability that equipment or an asset will perform its designed function without a failure for a
period of time under specific condition.
2) ( ) During and after World War II, people in that time classified maintenance as a function of the production system.
3) ( ) Availability is the fraction of time a piece of equipment is expected to be available for operation.
4) ( ) Maintenance objectives should be consistent with and subject to production goals.
5) ( ) One of the Maintenance Objectives is to Identifying and implementing cost reductions.
6) ( ) Delays is one of the major contributors to abnormal maintenance costs within a plant are.
7) ( ) Terotechnology is the combination of management, financial, engineering, and other practices applied to physical
assets.
8) ( ) In previous, they thought that "Maintenance is a necessary evil".
9) ( ) All preventive maintenance management programs are time driven.
10) ( ) Maintenance scheduling is predicated on the statistical trend data and the actual failure of plant equipment.
11) ( ) Mean time to failure is the average time that an item will operate before it fails.
12) ( ) Preventive maintenance programs vary greatly form plant to another.
13) ( ) Improvement Maintenance aims at reducing or eliminating entirely the need for maintenance.
14) ( ) Sensors measure conditions and transmit information to external indicators.
15) ( ) Some researchers classified predictive maintenance as a type of preventive maintenance.

Question 3 (6 Marks)
a) Mention the two maintenance philosophes, and what are the differences between them?
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b) There are some codes that aids short reports, standard terms, and rapid computer data entry, explain that?
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c) Define two indices that can be used to measure maintenance effectiveness?

d) The proportional size of the maintenance effort compared to the operating group has increased significantly
these days, explain that?
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Question 4 (3.5 Marks)

The table shows his list of the various activities needed for maintenance tasks. The first column represents the activity code,
the second column provides the activity duration in months and the third column gives important additional
information for coordinating the scheduling of the maintenance activities. Determine the critical path and duration by
calculating EET and LET of each event of the network.

Activity Activity Depends

code Duration on
A 2 -
B 3 -
C 4 -
D 1 A
E 2 B
F 5 B
G 7 C
H 2 D,E
I 3 F,G
J 2 H,I

Question 5 (2 Marks)
Assume that in a maintenance organization the total number of annual hours is 2100 h, the benefit ratio is 0.2, the hourly labor
rate is $22 per hour, and the number of employees are 45. Calculate the total labor cost associated with the maintenance activity.

GOOD LUCK
Eng. Tareq Al-hababi