Tutorial 2

Question 1.
a) What do you understand by the term median active corrective maintenance
time?
b) Use the data given on table 1 to calculate:
i. Median active corrective maintenance,
ii. Median active preventive maintenance, and
iii. Maximum active corrective maintenance at 95% confidence level from
the following information (For this sample Z at 95% = 1.65).
Maintenance actions 3,5,8,11 are preventive maintenance actions and the
remaining are breakdown maintenance actions

Table 1: List of maintenance times

Maintenance action Total downtime Logistics Delay Administrative
[Minutes] time [Minutes] delay time
[Minutes]
1 148 45 67
2 167 34 44
3 150 68 42
4 132 26 46
5 180 44 66
6 143 23 36
7 243 56 74
8 112 22 30
9 67 12 22
10 120 46 24
11 280 78 42
12 187 45 55

Question 2

i) What do you understand by the term maximum active corrective maintenance

time (Mmax)?

ii) Calculate Mmax at 95% confidence level from the data shown on table 1 and
table 2

iii) Use the data depicted on table 1 and intellectual assumption to calculate the
following data if given that the cycle time was 24,000 minutes:
a) Total Availability A;
b) Inherent Availability A1;
c) Achieved availability Aa;
d) Operational Availability Ao.

Table 1: Downtime of some selected maintenance activities. Activities number 3, 7, 9

and 14 are break down maintenance whereas the rest of activities are
preventive maintenance.
 Maintenance Activity No.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Td 3 4 2 3 4 6 4 2 3 4 6 8 8 10
[Hours]
LDT 75 120 40 45 100 160 98 44 45 90 155 200 230 320
[Min.]
ADT 65 45 25 35 80 140 102 26 35 90 145 160 159 160
[Min.]
Td is the total downtime that includes both the LDT and ADT.

Table 2: Risks/Upper limit variations

Risk Confidence Z Upper limit [min.]
5% 95% 1.65 65.72
10% 90% 1.28 64.89
15% 85% 1.04 64.35
20% 80% 0.84 63.89