Preventive Maintenance and Cost Benefit Analysis of Splicing Machine

Abstract

Maintenance is undoubtedly the most important shop floor support function for production. It is necessary to ensure that available machines are utilized to maximum capacity and breakdowns kept to a minimum. Preventive maintenance believes in the principle ?a stitch in time saves nine?. It seeks to eliminate possible breakdowns through planned maintenance checks, production schedules were continually upset due to frequent breakdowns of machines keeping the above problem in mind; we have tried to formulate a feasible preventive maintenance schedule for 14 splicing machines to eliminate breakdowns. We have attempted to predict future breakdowns and devised a preventive maintenance programme to avoid these breakdowns. The prediction of future breakdowns has been done on the basis of statistical of past available breakdown data the actual preventive maintenance schedule has been formulated with mean time between failures and maintenance personnel availability as constraints.