An evaluation of formed maintenance programme effcacy

Abstract

This paper presents the basic ideas for programming the maintenance of complex technical systems, which is a set of rules for determining the diagnostic mode of the constituent parts of the system in the actual exploitation process and decision making regarding the need for their replacement or on the extent of the necessary maintenance based on the information of the actual technical condition of the system. Assuming that the condition based maintenance is, in fact, the management system of the technical state of the system in the exploitation process, upon choosing the strategy for the condition based maintenance we have performed an analysis of the applicability of formed variants of the maintenance programme and evaluated their efficiency by comparing them with basic indicators (for corrective and preventive maintenance). We have pointed out the importance of using the described maintenance programme to increase reliability level and decrease the stagnation of technical systems, which results in high efficiency, and thus increases the productivity of companies where the systems have been installed. © 2012 Journal of Mechanical Engineering.