Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani

Work-Integrated Learning Programmes Division

Second Semester 2013-2014
Comprehensive Examination (EC-3 Regular)
Course No.
Course Title
Nature of Exam
Weightage
Duration
Date of Exam
Note:
1.
2.

Q.1 (a)
Q.1 (b)

Q.2 (a)

: ENGG ZC242
: MAINTENANCE & SAFETY
: Open Book
: 50%
: 3 Hours
: 06/04/2014 (AN)

No. of Pages
=2
No. of Questions = 5

Please follow all the Instructions to Candidates given on the cover page of the answer book.
Assumptions made if any, should be stated clearly at the beginning of your answer.

Explain the various financial, organizational, technical, human consideration and

customer relationship benefits that an organization will achieve after meeting its
maintenance objectives.
[5]
Explain the maintenances operational objectives, cost objectives and policies that an
organization will outline to achieve various financial, organizational, technical, human
and customer relationship benefits.
[5]
Interpret the following graph relating each metric to one another and their impact on
Maintainability, Availability and Reliability.
[5]

MDT : Mean Down time

MTBS: Mean time between shut down
ICC: Inventory carrying cost
Mops: Measures of Performance
Q.2 (b)

A XYZ company wants to provide training to its mechanics to upgrade their skill
level. Company has two choices, technical schools/colleges or contract training.
I.
Suggest a better choice to company and justify your choice.

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II.

If a number of technical schools/colleges or contract training firms are available

after selection. What criteria you will follow to select particular technical
school/college or contract training firm.
[5]
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Q.3 (a)

One week breakdown details of a lathe machine which works on a single shift basis
from 8am to 4pm is given below. Ignore lunch time. Assume all breakdowns are
unplanned shutdowns and numbers of maintenance actions are equal to number of
failures?
[5]
Day
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday

Determine
(i)
Down time %
Q.3 (b)

Breakdown period
11am to 11:30am
8am to 8:30am
No breakdown
9am to 11am
8:15am to 8:30am
10am to 10:45am
2pm to 3pm

(ii) MTBF (iii) Failure Rate (iv) MDT

It is estimated that the average no. of surface defects in 20 m 2 of paper produced by a

process is 3. What is the probability of finding no more than 3 defects in 40 m 2 of
paper through random selection?
[5]

Q.4. A Company is running a CNC milling centre that produced components on a schedule of
two 8 hour shifts, 6 days per week. The company had planned downtime of 20 minutes for
lunch per shift plus four 10 minute break per shift while the total actual downtime losses
(Non-planned) averaged 600 minutes per week. The milling centre produced 11223
components during actual operating time. If design cycle time is 0.2 minutes per
component and total there were 200 rejected components during the week, then determine:
i.
Availability Rate
ii. Performance rate
iii.
Quality rate
iv. Overall Equipment Efficiency
[4 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 10]
Q.5. Consider the seven component system shown in the Figure - 1. Assume that time to failure
for each component has an exponential distribution. The failure rates are as follows: A =
0.0005/h, B = 0.0005/h, C = 0.0003/h, D = 0.0008/h, E = 0.0004/h, F = 0.006/h, G =
0.0064/h,

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ii.

Figure -1 System with seven components

Find the reliability of the system after 1000 h?
What is the mean time to failure of the system?

[10]

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