Mechanical Maintenance: Basic Terms of Maintenance
This course introduces terms and concepts critical for effective industrial maintenance operations. Learners will explore key maintenance strategies, including preventive, condition-based, predictive, and corrective. It also covers precision maintenance as a cultural framework for excellence in maintenance practices.
Learners will examine key performance indicators such as Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), uptime, downtime, availability, and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). Other topics include maintenance safety protocols, lockout/tagout, routine maintenance activities, troubleshooting methods, and work management, including work requests, work orders, schedules, and recordkeeping.
The course concludes with a discussion of continuous improvement approaches, providing learners with comprehensive knowledge to excel in today’s maintenance environment.
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Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Differentiate between common maintenance strategies, including preventive, condition-based, predictive, and corrective
- Identify and explain critical performance indicators such as Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), uptime, downtime, availability, and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
- Explain maintenance safety guidelines and requirements, including the application of lockout/tagout procedures and the use of personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Describe work management processes, including the creation and use of work requests, work orders, maintenance schedules, and recordkeeping systems to support effective maintenance operations
- Identify continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean Maintenance, 5S, Kaizen, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Six Sigma, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
