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Types of maintenance

1. Breakdown maintenance: In this type of maintenance, no care is taken for the machine, until equipment fails. Repair is then undertaken. This type of maintenance could be used when the equipment failure does not significantly affect the operation or production or generate any significant loss other than repair cost. However, an important aspect is that the failure of a component from a big machine

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An Introduction to Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

In today’s industrial scenario huge losses/wastage occur in the manufacturing shop floor. This waste is due to operators, maintenance personal, process, tooling problems and non-availability of components in time etc. Other forms of waste includes idle machines, idle manpower, break down machine, rejected parts etc are all examples of waste. The quality related waste are of significant importance

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Failure Analysis

Identification of the underlying problem Whenever a component or product fails in service or if failure occurs in manufacturing or during production processing, failure analysis plays a very important role. In any case, one must determine the cause of failure to prevent future occurrence, and/or to improve the performance of the device, component or structure. Typical examples of systems/equipment

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