Maintenance Engineer

The role of maintenance in maintaining asset value over time is getting more visible at the business level with the increase in its acquisition and maintenance costs.

various manufacturing systems are introduced along with their distinctive features that influence maintenance strategies and practices.

Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) was initiated by the commercial aviation industry and then adopted by the U.S. military in the 1970s and then by the U.S. commercial nuclear power industry (in the 1980s) followed by other commercial industries and fields in the early 1990s.

RCM is defined by the technical standard SAE JA1011, as ‘‘an engineering framework that enables the definition of a complete maintenance regime. It regards maintenance as the means to maintain the functions a user may require of machinery in a defined operating context’’.

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It is imperative that you do not complain about the workload in your previous job, even if it was taxing. Illustrate your efficiency; explain how you manage your time and prioritise tasks.

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Several maintenance concepts were developed in different parts of the world that are usually based on cultural and philosophical backgrounds. These trends encompass other strategies and technologies of maintenance. Some of these concepts are briefly introduced below:

☛ Total Productive Maintenance

☛ Reliability Centered Maintenance

☛ Maintenance Strategies

You could talk about one engineering achievement that you are especially proud of, or you could explain how day-to-day aspects of the work stimulate you. If it is the latter, you should again tailor this to the role for which you are interviewing.

Maintenance is one of the major activities in manufacturing as it highly influences production quality and quantity and directly affects production cost and customer satisfaction. As new manufacturing technologies emerge and global communication advances, new maintenance practices are developed to cope with these changes.

The oldest type of manufacturing system is the custom manufacturing where a person or a machine makes a certain product tailored to a specific need. A shoemaker is an example of this system. Modern manufacturing have intermittent, continuous or flexible production systems.

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is developed from the preventive maintenance methodology introduced from the USA and further developed and implemented in many Japanese companies since 1971. It is then spread throughout the world.

TPM is defined as a system of maintaining and improving the integrity of production and quality systems through the machines, equipment, processes and employees that add business value to the organization. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a proactive and cost-effective approach to maximize equipment effectiveness using the principles of teamwork, empowerment, ‘zero breakdowns’ and ‘zero defects’.

Software scope is a well-defined boundary, which encompasses all the activities that are done to develop and deliver the software product.

The software scope clearly defines all functionalities and artifacts to be delivered as a part of the software. The scope identifies what the product will do and what it will not do, what the end product will contain and what it will not contain.

The main advantage of FMS is its high flexibility in managing manufacturing resources. The resulting gains are numerous including:

☛ Reduced manufacturing cost,

☛ Greater labor productivity,

☛ Greater machine efficiency,

☛ Improved quality,

☛ Increased system reliability,

☛ Shorter lead times.

However, FMS implementation requires a large initial capital and substantial preplanning. It also requires high skilled labor.

You should tailor this to the responsibilities of the role you are interviewing for and try to keep your answer centred on the positives.

Maintenance scheduling is the process of assigning resources for tasks to be accomplished at a certain time in a certain frequency. Scheduling of tasks should take into account production schedules, optimization of resources and reducing costs.

This is an ideal opportunity to depict several key qualities such as attention to detail, effective communication and creative thinking. You should come to the interview prepared with an example.

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