Increasing maintenance reliability through a reduction of job switching time in the Mechanical Workshop and Transport Section at the MSIRI
| MSI05P4117 | |
| Bonne, E. F. B. | |
| Department of System Engineering, Brunel University, England | |
| Increasing maintenance reliability through a reduction of job switching time in the Mechanical Workshop and Transport Section at the MSIRI | |
| Thesis, MSc in Engineering Management | |
| Thesis | |
| 2004 | |
| 95 p.: 18 figs, 14 tbls, 6 appen. | |
| En | |
| En | |
| This company-based dissertation primarily aims at finding a reliable maintenance planning system that will reduce the occurrences of Job Switching Time (JST) in the Mechanical Workshop and Transport Section (MWTS) at the Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute (MSIRI). over the years, the JST problem has known a steady increase, thus affecting the maintenance planning performance of the MWTS, whereby more time is required to achieve the maintenance objectives. On the other hand, due to the crisis facing the sugar industry, there is an unceasing pressure to cut down on operating costs and increase efficiency. In fact, to minimise the effect of JST, a new maintenance system has been developed based on results of various experiments. Since different assets exhibit different wear characteristics, a structured method was needed. Various quantitative tools, such as the Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), Time Series, Pareto, Trends and correlation analyses have been applied to ensure accurate prediction of future breakdowns and planning ahead of time for an effective planning of workloads. The empirical analyses made in this study on the phenomenon of JST has brought about the following conclusions: workers who are motivated put less time in switching from one job to another; time saved in manpower utilisation can help improve maintenance effectiveness; and a significant correlation was observed bween job switching and delay in delivery dates. Finally, the implementation of neew maintenance (PM) has decreased job switching from nine to one per day together with a decrease in average time loss from 56 minutes to 20 minutes. | |
| Maintenance maintenance reliability job switching time engineering management MSIRI | |
| Mauritius | |
| Engineering | |
| 2005-01-24 | |
| En | |
| WKSHOP | |
| WKSHOP |