MS057 Maintenance Management IGNOU exam question paper

MS-057: Maintenance Management last 3 yrs paper

June, 2021

  1. Explain ‘planned-maintenance system’. What are the steps involved in evolving a successful planned maintenance system? Discuss.
  2. “Spare parts go through various stages in their life cycle.” Explain the life cycle of spare parts in brief.
  3. “In TQM organizations, the traditional approach of post-production detection of defects is discouraged and a prevention philosophy is adopted to bring down the non-conformances.” Relate this approach to modern maintenance management systems.
  4. Explain, how component redundancy yields higher reliability than unit redundancy. For the general case of an n-component series system, prove that this is true.
  5. “Maintenance audit helps in analyzing performance factors and suggest improvements.” Explain this statement with some examples.
  6. “Plant shutdowns for equipment overhauls need to be adequately planned.” Why? What will happen if this is not done? What are the various steps of planning of maintenance shutdowns?
  7. Write short notes on any three of the following:

    (a) Terotechnology

    (b) Objectives of maintenance costing

    (c) Role of human resource development in maintenance management

    (d) Advantages of computerized network planning

    (e) Autonomous maintenance

February, 2021

  1. ‘‘In Breakdown Maintenance the equipment is allowed to run to its breakdown and then it is maintained and put back into operation.’’ Explain in the light of the above statement the important steps required to accomplish a corrective maintenance task.
  2. What is the aim of Spare Parts Inventory Management? In what way does it influence the different stages of the life cycle of spare parts? Also describe the different types of spare parts and the time of their usage.
  3. ‘‘Total Quality Maintenance is derived from Total Quality Management.’’ Explain the statement in the light of relationships between TQM, TQC and TPM.
  4. ‘‘Overhauling of plant and equipment constitutes an important part of the preventive maintenance effort of a manufacturing organization.’’ Discuss.
  5. Why are audits important for Maintenance Management Systems? What preliminary preparations are required before a maintenance audit can be commenced? Elaborate.
  6. What do you understand by Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)? What are the objectives of this process? Discuss in detail.
  7. Write short notes on any three of the following:

    (a) Maintenance Scheduling

    (b) Planning and Scheduling System

    (c) Elements of Maintainability

    (d) Replacement Decision

    (e) Pareto Chart

    (f) Pitfalls in Implementing RCM

June, 2020

  1. What do you understand by “Planned Maintenance System”? To implement a planned maintenance management system successfully, what various documents are required? Elaborate.
  2. What are the important components of a maintenance organization? Also provide factors to be kept in view while deciding roles and responsibilities for maintenance personnel.
  3. What are the basic expectations of the organization from the employees as far as maintenance management is concerned? Also explain the expectations of employees from the organization.
  4. What are the parameters of the Weibull model? Explain how the model is used for failure diagnosis by briefly explaining the relationship between the shape parameter 13 and the underlying cause(s) of recurrent failure
  5. What do you mean by Reliability Centered Maintenance (ACM)? What are the various steps involved in RCM methodology? Why is it said that, “Under RCM methodology, the problem is not failure at all, it is the consequence of failure”?
  6. What type of information you will be looking into before deciding a proper maintenance strategy? Explain the procedure for choosing a suitable maintenance strategy.
  7. Write short notes on any three of the following:

    (a) Basic principles of maintenance planning

    (b) Zero based budgeting

    (e) Total Quality Management (TQM)

    (d) Negative Exponential Distribution

    (e) Types of Audit

    (f) Chronic and Sporadic Losses

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