Feasibility Study
of Preventive Maintenance Implementation
Based on Cost
Analysis
K.M. Mourad, T.A. Nosseir
Automotive
Department, Faculty of Engineering,
Ain Shams
University Abbasia, Cairo, Egypt. (kmourad@netscape.net)
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A.A. Salem
The
General Nile Direct Transport Company,
Gisr
El-Suez, Cairo, Egypt.
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Abstract:
The success in the
management of a truck fleet depends upon many factors. An important one is how
good the preventive maintenance is executed. For that reason it should be a way
or a method which can be implemented to measure or to evaluate the execution of
the preventive maintenance. The objective of this work is to use the cost of
repairs of the fleet as a base to evaluate the efficiency of the execution of
the preventive maintenance, and to find a relationship between the level of
executed preventive maintenance and the cost of repairs. In this paper, a new
parameter based on cost analysis is introduced. This new parameter, namely the
maintenance grade (MG) is used as a measure or indicator of the preformed
maintenance level in different working places. A cost study employing the MG was
carried out using real data obtained from different branches of a goods
transportation company. The fleet of the chosen company is composed of trucks of
different makes and having different operating lives. The relationship between
the MG for the fleet of tucks and the costs of the truck's maintenance and
repairs was studied. Results obtained provide insight into the execution level
of preventive maintenance and its relationship to repairs cost.
The objective
of this investigation is to obtain the relationship between the level of the
executed preventive maintenance (EPM) for trucks and their cost of repairs. From
this relation the efficiency of the executed preventive maintenance can be
judged.
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