Syllabus of National Institute of Technology - Tiruchirappalli (NIT-T) MBA - MB769 Maintenance Management

Maintenance: Its role and scope in total organisational contexts, role of maintenance. Centralized and decentralized maintenance organisation structures. Design of Maintenance organisation in multiechelon repair inventory systems.

Maintenance system - Design and its selection - Break down maintenance - Routine maintenance -Predictive maintenance - Preventive maintenance - Corrective maintenance - Total Productive maintenance - Design maintenance - Contract maintenance.

Pareto's principles for repetitive breakdown analysis - Spares management - Planning considerations for each type of activities.

Maintenance work measurement - Time standards - Incentive schemes.

Maintenance man power planning - Selection -Training. Scheduling maintenance costs - Budget preparation and budgetary control of maintenance expenditures. Maintenance effectiveness - various performance indices and their evaluation - uses and limitations - monitoring of maintenance performance. Replacement Technique - Application of Computer in maintenance.

Book:

1. Gopalakrishnan, P & Sundararajan, 'Maintanance Management', Prentice Hall Of India, New Delhi, 1996.