How Dynamic Is Your Maintenance Strategy?
Is your maintenance program doing all it can to optimize the reliability of your equipment? Take this quick quiz and consider whether you have the proper controls in place and whether reliability analysis is being used to ensure continuous improvement.
- 1.What is the first step in risk management?
- A.
Mitigate the risk
- B.
Perform risk analysis
- C.
Identify the risk
- 2.When it comes to risk ranking, OEM-recommended maintenance tasks should be used:
- A.
If the risk does not justify failure analysis
- B.
If the maintenance is required to fulfill warranty and/or regulatory requirements
- C.
If a run to fail strategy is justified
- D.
Both a and b are correct
- 3.How do you determine if a failure mode is predominant?
- A.
Amount of work orders written against the equipment
- B.
The amount of labor hours spent working on the equipment
- C.
The risk priority number exceeds the established threshold for that equipment
- D.
The amount of times repair parts were used for the equipment
- 4.How do you account for the true cost of down time?
- A.
Labor hours charged against the work order
- B.
Repair material costs and expediting fees charged against the work order
- C.
Lost market opportunity cost
- D.
All of the above
- 5.Meters and measurement points in equipment records of your CMMS or EAM are used for:
- A.
Feedback mechanism for PM work order to collect information relating to asset health
- B.
Capture current operating parameters of the equipment
- C.
Annotate the time actually spent performing task
- D.
Document lubrication points on the equipment
- 6.What does preventive maintenance optimization provide?
- A.
A validation of the duration and frequency of the task
- B.
A means to review existing PMs for accuracy, value and comprehensiveness
- C.
A determination if current control strategies can be replaced by a PdM or operator care task.
- D.
All of the above
- 7.What is the appropriate action to adjust the control strategy for a leak in a critical system?
- A.
Install leak detection
- B.
Implement a PM task for periodic visual inspection of piping
- C.
Implement a PdM task to perform UT testing of piping to determine wall thickness
- D.
Perform failure and risk analysis to determine root cause and appropriate control
- 8.Repetitive equipment failures are an indication of:
- A.
Inadequate or improperly performed PM tasks
- B.
Inadequate or improperly performed PdM tasks
- C.
Improper operation of the equipment
- D.
Lack of a failure reporting and corrective action system
- 9.An effective risk mitigation strategy:
- A.
Avoids a specific threat
- B.
Mitigates a specific threat
- C.
Manages the consequences of the risk
- D.
All of the above
- 10.How are changes to a control strategy sustained?
- A.
E-mail all the planners of the change
- B.
Document the new control strategy in the CMMS or EAM system
- C.
Give training to all the craftsmen on the new strategy
- D.
Trigger a formal Management of Change process
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