Maintenance Engineering
MEPP 408
Bijendra Shrestha, D. Eng
Assistant Professor
UNG Coordinator (Energy Technology)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
20 March 2025
Course Details
Course Name : Maintenance Engineering
Code : MEPP
Course Number : 408
Credit :3
Group : Design & Manufacturing and Automobile
Class : Sunday (12:00-2:00) 8-304
Thursday (2:00-4:00) 8-301
MAINTENANCE
Course Details: PLANNED
MAINTENANCE
(PROACTIVE)
UNPLANNED
MAINTENANCE
(REACTIVE)
Module 1 :Introduction to Maintenance EMERGENCY BREAKDOWN
Module 2 : Predictive Maintenance PREDECTIVE
MAINTENANCE
PREVENTIVE
MAINTENANCE
IMPROVEMENT
MAINTENANCE
CORRECTIVE
MAINTENANCE
Module 3 : Computerized Maintenance STATISTICAL -
BASED
CONDITION -
BASED
ENGINEERING
SERVICES
DESIGN - OUT DEFERRED REMEDIAL
BREAKDOWN
Module 4 : Non-destructive Testing WINDOW RUNNING ROUTINE OPPORTU-
NITY
Industrial Tour - maintenance
Module 5 : Maintenance of Mechanical Drives
Module 6 : Maintenance of Fluid Power Systems
Presentation by students based
Module 7 : Maintenance of Heat Power Systems on tour and case study report
Module 8 : Safety Precautions
Module 9 : Protective Coating
Evaluation
Internal : 15 Marks [Average of 2]
Report : 6 Marks [Strategy Report]
Presentation : 4 Marks [Based on Module 4, 5, 6 and field visit]
Assignment : 0 Marks [Negative Marking -0.5 in each assignment]
Attendance : 0 marks [Negative Marking]
Total : 25 Marks
Requirements:
Attendance ≥ 80% , Else NQ
Note: Deadline will be finalized based on mutual understanding [Win-Win Condition]
Maintenance
•All actions which has objective to retain an item in, or
restore it to, a state in which it can perform the required
function.
•The action include combination of all Technical and
corresponding Administrative, Managerial, and
Supervision actions.
• Reinforced TMT bars are produced through a process of hot
rolling steel billets of sizes varying from 50mm X 50 mm to 250
mm X 250 mm and more
• The square or rectangular billets are heated to 1200 − 1300℃
in a furnace.
• The billet is then rolled through multiple rolling mill and passes
to produce TMT rebars of diameter 8 mm to 32 mm sizes
• The process is a semi-automatic single line continuous process
thus breakdown in any part of the production line
completely halts the process
• The production lines consists of 15-25 rolling mills with
numerous sensors, actuators, motors, pumps, bearings,
mechanical parts & linkages, and other machines working
simultaneously
• A breakdown in any of these equipment can cause the
whole production process to stop
• A breakdown during rolling causes numerous losses some of them
are:
• Loss of valuable Production Time
• Loss of idle Labor, including staffs from billet input to TMT
dispatch
• Waste of Billets and mid-rolled TMT bars
• Waste of huge energy in Furnace, and operation of rest of
the equipment of industry
• Loss of Labor and production time to clean up, set up &
start up all equipment and machines
• Task: Roughly calculate losses of a TMT Production Plant due to a
single breakdown using reasonable assumptions (40 MT/hr plant)
No Maintenance
Unplanned Breakdown
Maintenance
Imagine no maintenance of aircrafts?
Saurya Airlines Plane Crash at TIA
49 Killed, 22 injured in US-Bangla Airlines Plane Crash in
Tragedy at TIA
Nepal
Source: Report submitted by Girish Chandra Pokharel
and Niroj Koirala, 2019
This worker is doing his part by notifying his supervisor of a
defective tool.
15
Electricity and Water is a Dangerous Combination
Danger! Pull from Service. Do Not Use.
Notify Your Supervisor.
In General, the term maintenance has the following meanings:
1. Any activities such as tests, measurements, replacements, adjustments and repairs,
intended to restore or retain a functional unit in a specified state in which the unit can
perform its required functions.
2. Maintenance related to materials – All actions taken to retain material in a serviceable
condition or to restore it to serviceability. It includes inspection, testing, servicing, etc.
3. All supply and repair action taken to keep a force in condition or to carry out its mission.
4. The routine recurring work required to keep a facility (Plant, building, structure, ground
facility, utility system, or other real property) in such a condition that it may be
continuously used, at its original or designed capacity and efficiency for its intended
purpose.
Course Objectives:
• To develop the general rules and basic philosophies required to
establish a sound maintenance engineering organization.
Maintenance Engineering
MEPP 408
Bijendra Shrestha, D. Eng
Assistant Professor
UNG Coordinator (Energy Technology)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
23 March 2025
Maintenance
British Standard Glossary of terms (3811:1993) defined maintenance as:
The combination of all technical and administrative actions, including
supervision actions, intended to retain an item in, or restore it to, a state
in which it can perform a required function.
Maintenance is a set of organised activities that are carried out in order
to keep an item in its best operational condition with minimum cost
acquired.
Activities of maintenance function could be either repair or
replacement activities, which are necessary for an item to
reach its acceptable productivity condition and these
activities, should be carried out with a minimum possible cost.
Maintenance History
1. In the period of pre-World War II, people thought
of maintenance as an added cost to the plant which
did not increase the value of finished product.
Therefore, the maintenance at that era was
restricted to fixing the unit when it breaks because
it was the cheapest alternative.
Maintenance History
2. During and after World War II at the time when
the advances of engineering and scientific
technology developed, people developed other
types of maintenance, which were much cheaper
such as preventive maintenance.
In addition, people in this era classified
maintenance as a function of the production system.
Maintenance History
3. Nowadays, increased awareness of issues such as
environment safety, quality of product and
services makes maintenance one of the most
important functions that contribute to the success of
the industry.
World-class companies are in
continuous need of a very well organised
maintenance programme to compete world-wide.
Maintenance History
• Terotechnology – Study and practice of managing the entire lifecycle of physical assets, including Design, Installation,
Operation, Maintenance, and eventual disposal.
• Integrates various disciplines – Engineering, Economics, and Management to optimize the performance, reliability, and
cost-effectiveness of assests.
• The goal is to minimize the total cost of ownership over the life of the assest while ensuring it meets the required
performance standards.
