The cost of labor is an important component of the maintenance cost. Labor costs are
made up of payroll information that is usually obtained from labor distribution reports prepared
by the accounting department. The information is required for four key areas:
Where :
BR = benefit ratio,
TLC = CemN.Eq(1.2)
Where :
N = number of employees
Example :
TAH = 2000 h
BR = 0.2
N = 40
Calculating the total labor cost associated with the maintenance activity by
inserting the above values into Eqs. (1.1) and (1.2), we get :
And
Thus, the total labor cost associated with the maintenance activity will be $1.44 million.
..Eq(2.1)
Where :
Example :
A system is scheduled to operate for 2000 hours per year. The systems MTBF and MTTR are
400 h and 20 h, respectively. Calculate the annual labor cost of corrective maintenance if the
maintenance labor cost is $20 per hour. By substituting the specified data into Eq. (2.1), we get :
This section is concerned with estimating the maintenance cost of the entire ownership
cycle of equipment, so that its present value can be added to acquisition cost to obtain equipment
life cycle cost. The following two formulas are often used to find present value of a sum of
money. They can equally be used to obtain present values of equipment ownership cycle
maintenance costs :
FORMULA I
This formula is used to estimate the present value of a single amount of money after k periods
and is expressed by :
.Eq(3.1)
Where :
PV = present value,
AM = single amount,
k = number of interest or conversion periods (normally taken as years),
i = interest rate per period.
FORMULA II
This formula is concerned with obtaining the present value of equal amounts of, say,
maintenance costs occurring at the end of each of k conversion periods (usually years). The
present value is given by :
Eq(3.2)
Where :
MC = maintenance cost occurring at the end of each (interest) conversion period.
Example :
A maintenance department considers procuring an engineering system. Two manufacturers are
bidding to provide the system and their corrective maintenance costrelated data are given in
Table 3.1. Determine which of the two systems will be less costly with respect to present
values of corrective maintenance and by how much :
Tabel 3.1 Maintenance Cost-Related Data
Manufacturer A System
The annual expected cost, MC, of a corrective maintenance action is :
The present value, PVA, of the engineering system life cycle corrective maintenance
cost using Eq. (3.2) and the specified and calculated values is :
Manufacturer B System
The annual expected cost, MC, of a corrective maintenance action is :
The present value, PVB, of the engineering system life cycle corrective maintenance
cost using Eq. (3.2) and the specified and calculated values is :
The PERT scheme calls for three estimates of activity duration time using the following
formula to calculate the final time:
Eq(4.1)
Where :
Ta = activity expected duration time,
OT = optimistic or minimum time an activity will require for completion,
PT = pessimistic or maximum time an activity will require for completion,
MT = most likely time an activity will require for completion. This is the time
used for CPM activities.
Example 3.1
Assume that we have the following time estimates to accomplish an activity:
OT = 55 days
PT = 80 days
MT = 60 days
Calculate the activity expected duration time. Substituting the given data into Eq. (4.1), we get :
Various measures are used in maintainability analysis: for example, mean time to repair
(MTTR), mean preventive maintenance time, and mean maintenance downtime. Maintainability
functions are used to predict the probability that a repair, starting at time t= 0, will be completed
in a time. Some maintainability measures and functions are presented below.
Where :
k number of units or parts,
i failure rate of unit/part, for i 1, 2, 3, k
CMTi corrective maintenance/repair time required to repair unit/part i,
for i 1, 2, 3..,k
Example :
Annual failure 3 failures per year 3.5 failures per year 2.5 failures per year
rate
Annual interest 4% 4% 4%
rate
Determine which of the three system will be less costly with present value of corrective
maintenance ( Find the value of (PV)?
NB : Using the Formula II.