What attribute of a Maintenance and Reliability professional is essential for future success?
Which of the following is least likely to be linked to Maintenance and Reliability process improvements?
When acquiring mission-critical, major machinery, it is usually appropriate to use a detailed equipment specification to assure the best equipment is selected and purchased. Which of the following is the most appropriate approach to developing an equipment specification for a piece of equipment?
One of our five pumps fails each month. We have been getting 45 days of service out of our dryer belts. We have to fix five piping leaks per month. We have had to replace three of our 25 air cylinders in the last two years. If a Pareto diagram was created for this failure data, which equipment type would show the highest failure frequency?
A process system consists of two units,A and B. "Unit A" feeds "Unit B." such that if either unit is not operating, the system is not operating. Given the data below, calculate the annual Reliability of the system. The system is in continuous operation
Unit A Reliability =0.40
Unit B Reliability = 0.32
t = 1 year
You are the maintenance manager for a manufacturing plant (facility) that runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The product is selling well. The business is healthy. Which consideration will bring the most value to your business when planning your next major shutdown of your operating area?
An employee fells to use his safety goggles on the job and. as a result, incurs an eye irritation from fumes. This incident is an example of a(n):
Guidelines for developing a defensible performance appraisal process include the following, except
Motor Circuit Analysis (MCrA) on a low (450-600) voltage 3 Phase motor reveals significantly higher capacitance-to-ground than baseline values. Resistance-to-ground readings are good. What does this indicate and/or what should you do?
Which of the following has the least impact on maintenance and operations process improvements?
With regard toquality of goods and serviceswhich of the following is true in all economies?
What is a high level metric used to evaluate the overall effectiveness of a Safety Program?
After plotting your failure data (six points) for a single piece of equipment in a Weibull chart (log-log x log), you notice that the data forms a line with a dog leg (two intersecting straight lines). This means:
The maintenance manager of a bearing manufacturer has asked you to calculate the reorder point of a spare part item. She has provided you with the following information to facilitate your calculations. The cost of the spare parties$100. The cost of earning inventory is 20% of the cost of the part. The cost of placing an order is$40 for which the annual demand is 100,000 units. The average tad-time for replenishment is two weeks and the buffer stock of 500 units S desired and the average inventory is 100 units per week. What is the reorder point in units for this spare part?
Grouping of data into families and eliminating statistical outliers from a statistical alarm calculation:
What is at the heart or core of the Organization for International Standards (ISO) 9000 series documents concerning quality of products and services?
Which answer is not one of the steps in performing an RCA (Root Cause Analysis)?
Which of the following is a directly controllable leading performance indicator?
Your plant (facility) is in a sold-out position You just told a visiting senior manager from the head office that the reason you place so much emphasis and spend so much money on maintenance planning is that it not only sales money, but it makes money for the business. He asks: How can it make money for the business? Your most comprehensive answer is:
The scheduler should assign work plans for the crew to execute what percentage of the forecasted hours?
When forming teams to address reliability issues, four stages of team development should be recognized and managed by the reliability professional In the Performing stage, team members should not:
When initiating change to an existing process or program,the best practice is to:
Key performance indicators can be classified as leading or lagging indicators. An example of a lagging indicator for manufacturing is:
The historical evolution of maintenance methods from earliest to latest has been:
Why may two different materials, both with the same surface temperature, appear to havedifferent temperatures when viewed with a thermal imager?
The maintenance function should be viewed in value added terms and should be associated with profit and the optimization of maintenance costs. When developing the maintenance budget, it is important to:
Of the choices below, which is the best way to evaluate the effectiveness of a Safety Program?
Surveys have shown that plants (facilities) with good planning and scheduling systems and good predictive and preventive programs have which ratios of maintenance tasks? (Does not include service to operations or capital projects or turnarounds)
Root Cause Failure Analysis has determined that 30% of premature equipment failures are due to human errors. As the maintenance manager, what would be your first step to begin improving this performance?
What is the best way for a Maintenance and Reliability Program to use process parameters?