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IGNOU MS-57 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. What are the major considerations taken while ‘planning for maintenance’ for a manufacturing unit/machine/equipment? Prepare a maintenance schedule for a plant.
2. Many organizations have standing conflicts among maintenance and production/operations employees. Describe the nature of these conflicts. What are the main causes?
3. Write a short note on the following:
a. MTBF
b. MTR
c. MTWS
d. TPM
4. “In TQM organizations, the traditional approach of post-production detection of defects is discouraged, and prevention philosophy is adopted to bring down the non – conformance characteristics”. Relate this approach to modern maintenance management systems.
5. Discuss the preventive maintenance. In what ways is preventive maintenance necessary in JIT/Kanban/pull manufacturing as opposed to push manufacturing?
IGNOU MS-57 (July 2023 – January 2024) Assignment Questions
1. Discuss the objectives and functions of a maintenance system. Explain how the total maintenance cost is affected by the level of preventive maintenance.
2. What do you mean by continuous improvement? Explain the similarities and dissimilarities between Deming’s PDCA Cycle and CAPD Cycle.
3. Write a short note on the following:
a. Reliability centred Maintenance (RCM)
b. Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA)
c. Predictive Maintenance
d. Maintenance Audit
4. What is a ‘bath-tub’ curve? Briefly describe the three regions into which life cycle of a unit or device can be subdivided.
5. What parameters are used for machine vibration monitoring? Mention the conditions under which they are used for machine condition monitoring.