Practice Questions on Maintenance Engineering (ME 494)

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Provide reasons which make maintenance engineering an important aspect of Ghanaian economy
The accounting office of your company sees the maintenance engineering a drain to the company. Your
head of department is NOT pleased with such tagging. What will you tell the accounting office if you are
asked to address as negative notion in a seminar?
Explain the following five skills of a maintenance engineer- Social, Writer, Self, Technical and Legal.
Draw the organizational chart of the maintenance engineering department of a relatively small company.
In an attempt to have management on board with the maintenance engineering department activities,
propose four main objectives for preventive maintenance program.
Both management and maintenance engineering department are unhappy of inevitable unfinished
maintenance exercises in the work place. How well can the maintenance engineering department utilize
such data? Why do you think upper management will resist the purchase of predictive maintenance
gadgets?
Draw the follow diagram for developing a preventive maintenance program.
Preventive maintenance is carried out on scheduled interval; please indicate when corrective
maintenance exercise takes place at work.
In corrective maintenance program, explain fail-repair and salvage exercises
Logistics delay time, LDT, is one of the major corrective maintenance downtime components. Propose
two actions to reduce LDT.
Provide four human errors which are really affecting maintenance engineering department.
Should vendor specifications be a requirement during root cause failure analysis investigation? Provide
reasons for either yes or no response
Answer the questions below
What is mean time between failures?
What do you need to achieve it?
What is the significance of it in maintenance engineering?

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Discuss any four of the skills of a maintenance engineer.

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How is grease incompatibility defined? What is the significance of dropping point of grease?

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When is RCFA carried out and what is the purpose of RCFA?

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Justify two reasons why a bank will engage the services of a maintenance engineer?
The main foci of the maintenance engineering department are

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Preventive maintenance program has some pros and cons; it is a worrying concern to the maintenance
engineering department, why?

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Compare and contrast the relative merits and demerits of Reactive maintenance and Predictive
maintenance.

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In effective maintenance management, under the specific indicators, the accuracy of the maintenance
budget can be evaluated by the ratio of what?

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In assigning job priorities, it is important to consider some factors like

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Write the importance of what the knowledge of the backlog of maintenance organization used for?
How would you convince management to purchase a predictive maintenance gadget?

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Why do you think upper management will resist the purchase of a predictive maintenance gadget?

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Come up with the maintenance document to be used for brake system of a salon car.

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No likely questions from predictive and lubrication.
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