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.
Mitigate the risk
Perform risk analysis
Identify the risk
If the risk does not justify failure analysis
If the maintenance is required to fulfill warranty and/or regulatory requirements
If a run to fail strategy is justified
Both a and b are correct
Amount of work orders written against the equipment
The amount of labor hours spent working on the equipment
The risk priority number exceeds the established threshold for that equipment
The amount of times repair parts were used for the equipment
Labor hours charged against the work order
Repair material costs and expediting fees charged against the work order
Lost market opportunity cost
All of the above
Feedback mechanism for PM work order to collect information relating to asset health
Capture current operating parameters of the equipment
Annotate the time actually spent performing task
Document lubrication points on the equipment
A validation of the duration and frequency of the task
A means to review existing PMs for accuracy, value and comprehensiveness
A determination if current control strategies can be replaced by a PdM or operator care task.
All of the above
Install leak detection
Implement a PM task for periodic visual inspection of piping
Implement a PdM task to perform UT testing of piping to determine wall thickness
Perform failure and risk analysis to determine root cause and appropriate control
Inadequate or improperly performed PM tasks
Inadequate or improperly performed PdM tasks
Improper operation of the equipment
Lack of a failure reporting and corrective action system
Avoids a specific threat
Mitigates a specific threat
Manages the consequences of the risk
All of the above
E-mail all the planners of the change
Document the new control strategy in the CMMS or EAM system
Give training to all the craftsmen on the new strategy
Trigger a formal Management of Change process