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ME6012-MAINTENANCE ENGINEERING (Class A)
Basic Principles of maintenance planning – Objectives and principles of planned maintenance activity – Importance and benefits of sound Maintenance systems – Reliability and machine availability – MTBF, MTTR and MWT – Factors of availability – Maintenance organization – Maintenance economics.
Maintenance categories – Comparative merits of each category – Preventive maintenance, maintenance schedules, repair cycle - Principles and methods of lubrication – TPM.
Condition Monitoring – Cost comparison with and without CM – On-load testing and offload testing – Methods and instruments for CM – Temperature sensitive tapes – Pistol thermometers – wear-debris analysis
Repair methods for beds, slide ways, spindles, gears, lead screws and bearings – Failure analysis – Failures and their development – Logical fault location methods – Sequential fault location.
Repair methods for Material handling equipment - Equipment records –Job order systems -Use ocomputers in maintenance.
Reference Book:
1. Bhattacharya S.N., “Installation, Servicing and Maintenance”, S. Chand and Co., 1995 2. White E.N., “Maintenance Planning”, I Documentation, Gower Press, 1979. 2. Garg M.R., “Industrial Maintenance”, S. Chand & Co., 1986. 3. Higgins L.R., “Maintenance Engineering Hand book”, 5th Edition, McGraw Hill, 1988. 4. Armstrong, “Condition Monitoring”, BSIRSA, 1988. 5. Davies, “Handbook of Condition Monitoring”, Chapman & Hall, 1996. 6. “Advances in Plant Engineering and Management”, Seminar Proceedings - IIPE, 1996.
Text Book:
1. Srivastava S.K., “Industrial Maintenance Management”, S. Chand and Co., 1981 2. Venkataraman .K “Maintancence Engineering and Management”, PHI Learning, Pvt. Lt 2007
