ENGG960 – Maintenance Requirements Analysi
Topic 7 – Compiling Activities into a Program
Key questions
This topic should assist you to develop the knowledge allowing you to answer the following
questions:
1. What are the key steps in aggregating individually optimised tasks into a practical
preventive maintenance program?
2. What should be considered in preparing PM task descriptions for entry inthe
maintenance management system?
Tasks
1. Work through the notes for this topic and the readings set out below looking for
answers to the key questions.
2. Answer the tutorial questions.
Reading
1 MRA PM Task Packaging Notes
2 NAVAIR 00-25-403 – 4.2 Packaging PM Tasks
3 PM Task Description Standardisation
4 E-reading - Kelly, A. (1989) Maintenance strategy: a systematic approach - Maintenance
and its Management, Conference Communication, Farnham, Surry, pp 86-98
Topic Questions
1. Tony Kelly (E-reading) describes his approach to establishing a preventive maintenance
program for a complex plant as a top down – bottom up approach. What are the top
down considerations in establishing a shutdown schedule for acomplex system?
2. What are the key considerations in determining an optimum grouping for proposed
preventive maintenance tasks?
3. What do you think are the important things to consider in publishing inspection task
descriptions for preventive maintenance?
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