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Maintenance and
Reliability
PowerPoint presentation to accompany
Heizer and Render
Operations Management, 10e
Principles of Operations Management, 8e
PowerPoint slides by Jeff Heyl
Additional content from Gerry Cook
Outline
The Strategic Importance of Maintenance and
Reliability
Reliability
Improving Individual Components
Providing Redundancy
Maintenance
Implementing Preventive Maintenance
Total Productive Maintenance
Techniques for Enhancing Maintenance
Learning Objectives
1. Describe how to improve system reliability
2. Determine system reliability
3. Determine mean time between failure
(MTBF)
4. Distinguish between preventive and
breakdown maintenance
5. Describe how to improve maintenance
6. Compare preventive and breakdown
maintenance costs
Orlando Utilities
Commission
Maintenance of power generating plants
Every year each plant is taken off-line for 1-3
weeks maintenance
Every three years each plant is taken off-line
for 6-8 weeks for complete overhaul and
turbine inspection
Each overhaul has 1,800 tasks and requires
72,000 labor hours
OUC performs over 12,000 maintenance tasks
each year
Every day a plant is down costs OUC $110,000
Unexpected outages cost between $350,000
and $600,000 per day
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Strategic Importance of
Maintenance and Reliability
Failure has far reaching effects on a firms
Operation
Reputation
Profitability
Dissatisfied customers
Idle employees
Profits becoming losses
Reduced value of investment in plant and
equipment
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Maintenance and Reliability
Reliability is the probability that a machine will
function properly for a specified time
Tactics to improve Reliability
Improving individual components
Providing redundancy
Maintenance: activities involved in keeping a
systems equipment in working order
Maintenance Tactics
Implementing or improving preventive maintenance
Increasing repair capability or speed
Reliability
Improving individual components
R s = R1 x R2 x R 3 x x Rn
where
R1 = reliability of component 1
R2 = reliability of component 2
and so on
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n=1
80
n=1
0
60
40
n
20
n
n
|
100
0
40
Reliability of the system (percent)
100
Overall
System Reliability
n=
n=
10
0
50
20
0
30
0
99
98
97
96
Average reliability of each component (percent)
Figure 17.2
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Reliability Example
R1
R2
R3
.90
.80
.99
Rs
Reliability of the process is
Rs = R1 x R2 x R3 = .90 x .80 x .99 = .713 or 71.3%
Product Failure Rate (FR)
Basic unit of measure for reliability
Number of failures
FR(%) =
x 100%
Number of units tested
Number of failures
FR(N) =
Number of unit-hours of operating time
Mean time between failures
1
MTBF =
FR(N)
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Failure Rate Example
20 air conditioning units designed for use in
NASA space shuttles operated for 1,000 hours
One failed after 200 hours and one after 600 hours
2
FR(%) =
(100%) = 10%
20
2
FR(N) =
= .000106 failure/unit hr
20,000 - 1,200
1
MTBF =
= 9,434 hrs
.000106
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Failure Rate Example
20 air conditioning units designed for use in
NASA space shuttles operated for 1,000 hours
One failed after 200 hours and one after 600 hours
2
FR(%) =
(100%) = 10%
20
2
FR(N) =
= .000106 failure/unit hr
20,000 - 1,200
1
MTBF =
= 9,434 hrs
.000106
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Providing Redundancy
Provide backup components to
increase reliability
Probability
of first
+
component
working
Probability
Probability
of second x of needing
component
second
working
component
(.8)
(.8)
(1 - .8)
.8
.16
= .96
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Redundancy Example
A redundant process is installed to support
the earlier example where Rs = .713
R1
R2
0.90
0.80
0.90
0.80
R3
Reliability has
increased
from .713 to .94
0.99
= [.9 + .9(1 - .9)] x [.8 + .8(1 - .8)] x .99
= [.9 + (.9)(.1)] x [.8 + (.8)(.2)] x .99
= .99 x .96 x .99 = .94
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Maintenance
Two types of maintenance
Preventive maintenance
routine inspection and servicing
to keep facilities in good repair
Breakdown maintenance
emergency or priority repairs on
failed equipment
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Maintenance Costs
The traditional view attempted to
balance preventive and breakdown
maintenance costs
Typically this approach failed to
consider the true total cost of
breakdowns
Inventory
Employee morale
Schedule unreliability
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Maintenance Costs
Total
costs
Breakdown
maintenance
costs
Maintenance commitment
Optimal point (lowest
cost maintenance policy)
Traditional View
Costs
Costs
Preventive
maintenance
costs
Total
costs
Full cost of
breakdowns
Preventive
maintenance
costs
Maintenance commitment
Optimal point (lowest
cost maintenance policy)
Full Cost View
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Maintenance Cost Example
Should the firm contract for maintenance
on their printers?
Number of
Breakdowns
Number of Months That
Breakdowns Occurred
4
Average cost of breakdown
= $300
Total :
20
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Maintenance Cost Example
1. Compute the expected number of
breakdowns
Number of
Breakdowns
Frequency
Number of
Breakdowns
Frequency
2/20 = .1
6/20 = .3
8/20 = .4
4/20 = .2
Expected number
of breakdowns
Number of
breakdowns
Corresponding
frequency
= (0)(.1) + (1)(.4) + (2)(.3) + (3)(.2)
= 1.6 breakdowns per month
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Maintenance Cost Example
2. Compute the expected breakdown cost per
month with no preventive maintenance
Expected
breakdown cost
Expected number
of breakdowns
x Cost per
breakdown
= (1.6)($300)
= $480 per month
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Maintenance Cost Example
3. Compute the cost of preventive
maintenance
=
Preventive
maintenance cost
Cost of expected
Cost of
breakdowns if service + service contract
contract signed
= (1 breakdown/month)($300) + $150/month
= $450 per month
Hire the service firm; it is less expensive
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Total Productive
Maintenance (TPM)
Designing machines that are reliable, easy to
operate, and easy to maintain
Emphasizing total cost of ownership when
purchasing machines, so that service and
maintenance are included in the cost
Developing preventive maintenance plans that
utilize the best practices of operators,
maintenance departments, and depot service
Training for autonomous maintenance so
operators maintain their own machines and
partner with maintenance personnel
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Problems With Breakdown
Maintenance
Run it till it breaks
Might be ok for low criticality
equipment or redundant systems
Could be disastrous for missioncritical plant machinery or
equipment
Not permissible for systems that
could imperil life or limb (like
aircraft)
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Problems With Preventive
Maintenance
Fix it whether or not it is broken
Scheduled replacement or
adjustment of parts/equipment with
a well-established service life
Typical example plant relamping
Sometimes misapplied
Replacing old but still good bearings
Over-tightening electrical lugs in
switchgear
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Another Maintenance Strategy
Predictive maintenance Using advanced
technology to monitor equipment and
predict failures
Using technology to detect and predict
imminent equipment failure
Visual inspection and/or scheduled
measurements of vibration, temperature, oil
and water quality
Measurements are compared to a healthy
baseline
Equipment that is trending towards failure
can be scheduled for repair
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Maintenance Strategy
Comparison
Maintenance
Strategy
Advantages Disadvantages
Resources/
Technology
Required
Application
Example
Breakdown
No prior
work
required
Disruption of
production,
injury or death
May need
labor/parts
at odd
hours
Office copier
Preventive
Work can
be
scheduled
Labor cost,
may replace
healthy
components
Need to
obtain
labor/parts
for repairs
Plant
relamping,
Machine
lubrication
Predictive
Impending
failures can
be detected
& work
scheduled
Labor costs,
costs for
detection
equipment and
services
Vibration, IR
analysis
equipment
or
purchased
services
Vibration
and oil
analysis of a
large
gearbox
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In-Class Problems from the
Lecture Guide Practice Problems
Problem 1:
California Instruments, Inc., produces 3,000 computer chips per day.
Three hundred are tested for a period of 500 operating hours each.
During the test, six failed: two after 50 hours, two at 100 hours, one at
300 hours, and one at 400 hours.
Find FR(%) and FR(N).
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In-Class Problems from the
Lecture Guide Practice Problems
Problem 2:
If 300 of these chips are used in building a mainframe computer, how
many failures of the computer can be expected per month?
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In-Class Problems from the
Lecture Guide Practice Problems
Problem 3:
Find the reliability of this system:
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In-Class Problems from the
Lecture Guide Practice Problems
Problem 4:
Given the probabilities below, calculate the expected breakdown cost.
Assume a cost of $10 per breakdown.
Number of
Breakdowns
0
1
2
3
Daily Frequency
3
2
2
3
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