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Fleet Maintenance Management

MV 7121
Col (Prof) James K Varkey
02-03-2015

Fleet Maintenance Management

Syllabus
1. Introduction to Fleet Maintenance
2. Theory of Failure and Reliability
3. Maintenance Operation and Control
4. Vehicle and Equipment Replacement Strategy
5. Vehicle Maintenance Policy and Strategy
6. Vehicle Maintenance Programme
7. Vehicle Maintenance Planning
8. Maintenance Productivity
9. Implementation Steps of PM
10. Computerized Vehicle Maintenance Management
11. Total Productive Maintenance
12. Reliability Cantered Maintenance

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Introduction to Fleet Maintenance

Introduction
Overview of Maintenance Management
Definition of Maintenance
Objectives of Maintenance Agency
Responsibility of Maintenance Agency
Salient Features of Maintenance Management
Fleet Maintenance Management and Human
Body as Machinery: A Conceptual Approach
Life Cycle Approach
Importance of Maintenance Management
World Class Management

Fleet Maintenance Management

Introduction to Fleet Maintenance

Introduction.
The importance of equipment/fleet maintenance
particularly in the defence services, having increasing
numbers of complex and sophisticated vehicles and
weapon systems, needs no emphasis.
Equipment management encompasses all activities
commencing from concept formulation, right through
various phases of design, development, trials,
acceptance, production, usage and ultimate discard i.e.
from womb to tomb.

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Introduction to Fleet Maintenance

Overview of Maintenance Management

The responsibility of Maintenance Management involves

planning, directing, coordinating, guiding, allocating,
budgeting, maintaining, economizing and evaluating
products, services, or any machineries.
Maintenance management is an integral part of equipment
management activity which starts at design root level and is
an on-going process till the equipment is declared obsolete
and phased out of the organization.
Cost effectiveness and functionality to be kept in mind while
working out maintenance throughout the life cycle of the
equipment.
Maintenance activity should keep pace with latest
technology and sophistication.

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Introduction to Fleet Maintenance

Overview of Maintenance Management

Equipment management in defence services ensures

that The right equipment is in the Right Place,

at the Right Time, in Right Quantity, in the Right

Condition and at Right Cost.

The efficient and effective control of equipment, of its

operation and supporting resources, to ensure that the
users valid requirements are economically met at all
times
- British Army Definition

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Introduction to Fleet Maintenance

Definition of Maintenance
A combination of various activities required to retain all
equipment available in an organization in as-built
condition or restore to acceptable condition so that it
continues to have its original productive capacity.

The Responsibility of Maintenance

To ensure that the equipment and plant is available for
productive use at all time and at minimum cost, by
appropriate preventive maintenance activities.
To carry out break down maintenance when equipment
becomes out of action.

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Introduction to Fleet Maintenance

Objectives of Maintenance Agency

To increase functional reliability of

production facilities.
To enable desired quality through correctly
adjusted, serviced and operated
equipment.
To maximize the useful life of equipment.
To minimize cost of production.
To minimize frequency of interruptions.
To enhance the safety of manpower

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Introduction to Fleet Maintenance

Objectives of Maintenance Agency

To ensure high availability of equipment

To ensure operational readiness of all equipment at all

times

To ensure the safety of personnel using the equipment

To extend the useful life of weapons and equipment.

To keep the number of breakdowns per year at its

lowest

To keep the yearly downtime at its lowest

Achieving all the above objectives at the lowest cost.

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Introduction to Fleet Maintenance

Responsibility of Maintenance

Perform
break
down
maintenance
whenever required.
Plan and stock the spares, tools and
expendables for preventive and breakdown
maintenance.
Periodically inspect the equipment for
adequate maintenance and advise user for
the same.
To carry out trials on maintenance of newly
procured equipment.

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Introduction to Fleet Maintenance

Functions of the Maintenance Agency.

Maintaining the technical specifications.
Keeping record of type of maintenance work
done for all equipment.
Carryout periodic inspections
To plan and implement periodic
preventive maintenance of all equipment
Carryout approved modifications
Conduct defect analysis

and

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Salient Features of Maintenance Management
Repair as far forward as possible.
Economy of repair
Timeliness
Minimum MTTR
Ensure quality

Ensure all maintenance tasks

completed along with repair.

are

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Salient Features of Maintenance Management

It is system oriented.
It imbibes inter- disciplinary team approach.
It makes use of scientific methods to solve the
managerial problems of equipment.
Increases the effectiveness of equipment in
terms of efficiency and cost effectiveness.
Deals with complete life cycle of equipment.
Result oriented management.

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FMM and Human Body as Machinery

Human body is also a machine and carries out the

assigned job of each department in a well timed manner.
Each faculty is communicating to other when required
with out any external prompting
It maintains each part automatically
It detect any shortcoming in any part automatically
It feeds each parts requirement automatically
It self manages the maintenance
Coordination between various parts are automatic

Human body has a built-in management system

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FMM and Human Body as Machinery

The equipment/vehicle is like a child.

Cannot communicate.
Cannot diagnose.
Cannot feed himself.
Cannot co-ordinate his own activities.

The equipment managers have to play following

role: A mother of the child.
A father of the child.
A doctor (pediatrician)

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Life Cycle Approach

1. Requirement
Phase
2. Development
Phase
3. In-service Period

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Importance of Maintenance Management

Longer life of the equipment

Enhanced reliability.
Better availability.
Improved maintainability.
Economy in operation and maintenance.
Efficient usage
Effective control.
A tool for victory in war.

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To increase functional reliability of

production facilities.
To enable desired quality through correctly
adjusted, serviced and operated
equipment.
To maximize the useful life of equipment.
To minimize cost of production.
To minimize frequency of interruptions.
To enhance the safety of manpower

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