You are new to the job of maintenance manager. As you start reviewing the work done by your five planners you find that, on average, they are dividing their time as follows:
5% Interviewing area personnel to scope out jobs
2% Creating pipe sketches and other small drawings
9% Ordering materials through the Computerized Maintenance Management System
(CMMS)
5% Creating work order estimates
15% Researching what spare parts are needed and where to find them
25% Expediting materials that have not come in yet
5% Creating material kits for future jobs and maintaining the kitting area
1% Creating formal job steps in the work order record in the CMMS
10% Checking on field progress of the larger jobs
15% Talking with mechanics to explain the details of work they are to perform
8% Closing work orders and other data clean up tasks in the CMMS
In which two areas should you concentrate onto make the planners more productive?
What is the statistical average and the population standard deviation of the following series of numbers?
1.30, 1.25, 1.50, 1.12, 1.35, 1.38
After examining the work order history, a maintenance manager finds 25% of the work orders were written and executed on the same day (unscheduled); 60% were formally scheduled the day before they were started; 20% of the work orders have emergency priority; 10% were on the schedule for about a week; and 5% were on the schedule for about a month or more. Your planners are responsible for expediting materials. The Maintenance Coordinator meets with your planners each afternoon to make the next day's schedule. Operations does (Operations do) a good job of preparing equipment for the day's scheduled work. Maintenance costs seem high relative to the value of the equipment being maintained. What should be done first?
What is defined as "the supervision of a process designed to alter and improve the function of a business"?
Which of the following failures, when avoided,is considered a"best practice" for industrialmaintenance?
Which of the following is a directly controllable leading performance indicator?
A reliability block diagram is used in the analysis of plant machinery:
What aspect of improving reliability is most often overlooked?
For the oil in a pressurized lubrication system, oil samples for analysis and trending should be taken from:
For maximum effectiveness maintenance tasks should be allocated to:
TESTED 13 Sep 2025