4.10 Maintenance

Question 1

What is the purpose of Maintenance

Answer 1

Sustain the capability of the system to provide a service

Monitor the system’s capability to deliver services, record problems for analysis, take corrective, adaptive, perfective and preventative actions and confirm restored capability

Question 2

What are the Maintenance inputs?

Answer 2

Concept Documents
Operator/Maintainer training
Initial Trained operators and maintainers
validated system
validation report

Question 3

Controls and enablers governing maintenance process?

Answer 3

Applicable Laws & Regulations
Industry Standards
Agreements
Project Procedures and Standards
Project Directives
Organization/Enterprise policies, procedures and standards
Organizational/Enterprise infrastructure
Project infrastructure
Maintenance Enabling Systems

Question 4

What are the maintenance process outputs?

Answer 4

Maintenance Strategy
Maintenance Enabling System Requirements (any requirements on systems needed to enable maintenance)
Maintenance constraints on design
Maintenance procedure
Maintenance report

Question 5

What items are in a Maintenance report?

Answer 5

Maintenance activity results
Report failures and recommendations for action
Lifetime performance data
Any required procedure or system changes that should be accomplished as part of on-going CM activities.

Question 6

What activities does the Maintenance process include?

Answer 6

Plan Maintenance

Perform Maintenance

Question 7

What actions comprise Plan Maintenance?

Answer 7

Establish a maintenance strategy
Define maintenance constraints on system requirements
Obtain the enabling systems, system elements, and other services used for maintenance of the system
Monitor replenishment levels of spare parts
Manage the skills and availability of trained maintenance personnel

Question 8

What actions comprise Perform Maintenance?

Answer 8

Implement maintenance and problem resolution procedures, including schuled replacement of system elements prior to failure (preventive maintenance)
Maintain history of failures, actuans taken, and other trends to inform operations and maintenance personnel and other projects creating or utilizing similar elements
Monitor customer satisfaction with maintenance and support