GMS 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Total Productive Maintenance, Total Quality Management, Expert System

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 401
• Professor: Omid Jadidi

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There are 2 types of maintenance: preventive maintenance; a plan that involves routine inspections, servicing, and keeping facilities in good repair to prevent failure. Emphasis is on understanding the process and keeping it working without interruption: breakdown maintenance; remedial maintenance that occurs when equipment fails and must be repaired on an emergency or priority basis. Implementing preventive maintenance system requires service or when it is likely to fail. To perform preventive maintenance, we must know when a. A high initial failure rate is known as (cid:498)infant mortality(cid:499) Many companies execute a variety of tests to detect (cid:498)start up(cid:499) problems prior to shipment called (cid:498)burn in(cid:499) Once a product, machine, or process (cid:498)settles in(cid:499), a study can. Failures are not product failures per say, but. Not all repairs can be done in the firms facility. Preventative maintenance policies and techniques must include an emphasis on employees accepting responsibility for the: observe, check, adjust, clean, notify.