Good Maintenance Report Report Example

There are two types of maintenance, scheduled maintenance and unscheduled maintain. Scheduled maintenance is done periodically, and it includes preventative maintenance, reliability centered maintenance and predictive maintenance (Kister et al. 2006). Unscheduled maintenance is done throughout the running life of the plant. Unscheduled maintenance includes basic elements of repair such as fixing machines parts that have stopped working or are not working optimally.In our maintenance plan we plan to have a scheduled maintenance once a year which involves closure of the plant for a period of two weeks once every year for thorough maintenance of all the plant equipment and machines. The production manager is also always on site to carry out daily maintenance duties.
We have decided to run these two types of maintenance to ensure the optimum operation of the plant so as to contain operation costs that would result to wastages due to defects of the plant machinery and also increase the life of the machines. Production should be maintained continuously as much as possible, and this is only possible when the machinery is working at optimum (Kister et al.,2006 ).The staff that is employed by the plant are sufficient to carry out daily routine maintenance and occasionally unscheduled maintenance when the work involved is light.However for scheduled maintenance that involves the closure of the plant for major maintenance and repair extra staff is hired on a temporary basis for the period of the scheduled maintain ace.
Materials used for daily maintenance are made available by the store department but for scheduled maintenance extra requisition must be made to avail the materials needed( Kister et al.,2006).Unscheduled maintenance is done on the plant when there are sudden breakdown of machinery or decreased efficiency of a machinery affecting the level of production.

Work Cited

Kister, Timothy C, and Bruce Hawkins. Maintenance Planning and Scheduling: Streamline Your Organization for a Lean Environment. Amsterdam: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006. Internet resource.