MS-57 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT 2019 (Code: IGNOU MS-57 2015)

 ASSIGNMENT

Course Code : MS - 57
Course Title : Maintenance Management
Assignment Code : MS-57 /TMA/SEM - II/2019
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment to the coordinator of your study center on
or before 31st October, 2019.
1. “Forecasting of maintenance workload of a plant is essential for carrying out proper planning and
scheduling’’. Explain the statement.
2. What are the main sources of collection of maintenance cost? State the procedure with examples
for collection of data from these sources.
3. “In TQM organizations, the traditional approach of post-production detection of defects is
discouraged and a prevention philosophy is adopted to bring down the non-conformances’’.
Relate this approach to modern maintenance management systems.
4. “Replacement policies form an integral part of all industrial maintenance programmes’’.
Comment on the statement. Also, explain the decision regarding replacement of capital
equipment.
5. “The Japanese refer to autonomous maintenance as self-initiated maintenance’’. Explain the
meaning of autonomous maintenance in context of the statement.