IMPLEMENTATION OF RELIABILITY CENTERED MAINTENANCE IN LAMP MANUFACTURING UNIT
Keywords:
Reliability centered maintenance, lamp manufacturing, down time, maintenance planAbstract
In today’s competitive environment many organizations are required to reduce their overall cost while maintaining the value and reliability of their assets. Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) helps organization to develop a systematic maintenance plan, meeting these requirements in a cost effective manner. This paper presents a case study of mechanical based failures in lamp manufacturing unit, which has significantly benefited through the successful implementation of RCM. Due to consistent low machine efficiency, there was an urgent requirement for analysis of the maintenance system. The results of study suggested that as regards to down time of mechanical failures are concerned in lamp manufacturing unit; sealing, mounting, threading, pumping and stem machine contributes 27%, 23%, 15%, 10% and 7% respectively. The uptime efficiency for mechanical failures has been improved by 2% through the implementation of RCM.
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