Purpose of Maintenance

The main purpose of maintenance in an

industrial perspective is to reduce the

business risks.
In general, operation & maintenance is

synonymous with high level of availability,

reliability and assets operability linking directly
with production capacity, productivity and
business profit.

Maintenance Functions
To get a smooth, reliable and cost effective

maintenance in a company, different functions in

the company has to be co-ordinated and not only
the maintenance department alone.

Maintenance functions can be

grouped in two categories:
1) Basic Functions (Job-wise)
2) Composite Functions

1) Basic Functions
1) Replace: To remove an unserviceable item and

install a serviceable counterpart in its place.

2) Repair: The application of maintenance
services including fault location/troubleshooting,
removal installation, and disassembly/assembly
procedures and maintenance actions to identify
troubles and restore serviceability to an item by
correcting specific damage, fault, break down or
failure in a part, sub-assembly, module
(component or assembly), end item, or system.

3) Overhaul: the maintenance effort

(service/action)prescribed to restore an item to a
completely serviceable/operational condition as
required by maintenance standards in appropriate
technical problems.
overhaul does not normally return an item to like
new condition.
4) Rebuild: It consists of those services/actions
necessary for the restoration of unserviceable
equipment to a like new condition in accordance
with original manufacturing standards.

5) Service/Lubricate: operations required periodically

to keep an item in proper operating condition, i.e., to
clean, to preserve, to drain, to paint, or to replenish
fuel, lubricants, chemical fluids, or gases.
Lubrication is introduction of any of various
substances between sliding surfaces to reduce wear
and friction.
6) Inspect: to determine the serviceability of an item
by comparing its physical, mechanical, and/or
electrical characteristics with established standards
through examinations.

7) Test: to verify serviceability by measuring the

mechanical or electrical characteristics of an item
and compare those characteristics with
prescribed standards.
8) Adjust: To maintain, within prescribed limits, by
bringing into proper or exact position, or by
setting the operating characteristics to specified
parameters.
9) Align: to adjust specified valuable elements of
an item to bring about optimum or desired
performance.

10) Calibrate: to determine and cause

corrections to be made or to be adjusted on
instruments or test, measuring and diagnostic
equipment used in precision measurement.
11) Install: the act of emplacing, seating, or
fixing into position an item , part, or module in
a manner to allow the proper functioning of an
equipment or system, etc.

2) Composite function
1) protecting the buildings, structures and

plants/factories.
2) Reducing downtimes and increasing equipment

availability; also helping in increasing equipment

utilization.
3) Controlling and directing labor forces.

Composite function
4) Economy in maintenance department.
5) Maximizing utilization of available resources.
6) Ensuring safety of installation and reducing

environmental pollution.
7) Cost reduction and cost control; Also helping in

costing of individual jobs and departments.

Composite function
8) Preparing maintenance budgets.
9) Waste reduction and waste recovery.
10) Improving technical communication.
11) Training of maintenance personnel on

related jobs, etc.

Maintenance Objectives
1) To maintain plants and equipments at its

maximum operating efficiency, reducing

downtimes and ensuring operational safety.
2) To safeguard investments by minimizing rate of

deterioration and achieving this at optimum cost

through budgeting and controls.
3) To help management in taking decisions on

replacements or new investments actively

participate in specification preparation, equipment
selection, its erection and commissioning etc.

Maintenance Objectives
4) Help in implementation of suitable procedures for

procurement, storage and consumption of spares,

tools and consumables etc. (inventory control).
5) Standardization of spares and consumables, in

conformity with plant, national and international

standards and help in adoption of these standards
by all users in the plant.
6) Running of centralized services like steam

generation and distribution, water supply, air supply

and fuel supply etc.

Maintenance Objectives

7) Running of captive workshops for repairs and

conditioning and also for making some new

spares.


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