Maintenance Strategies for Elphinstone Engineering

Maintenance
strategies

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
There are different types of machinery tools and equipment’s which are been used in
engineering companies. Each of them requires maintenance so that it works properly and for
long time. Every organisation highly focuses on maintaining their physical assets so that
efficiency is not impacted. The report has described about maintenance strategy of Elphinstone
engineering and how they are able to maintain various assets. The company have made some
changes in their strategy by implementing principle of lean management.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
QUESTION 1..................................................................................................................................1
Construct a process flow diagram and establish asset inventory in Elphinstone engineering.....1
2) Detail asset operating characteristics and production policy..................................................2
3) Assemble identified maintenance task in unit life plan...........................................................2
4) Outline needs for spare parts...................................................................................................2
QUESTION 2..................................................................................................................................2
1) Optimisation process utilised to determine PM methodology for gear box............................2
2) Outline current preventative maintenance schedule for asset.................................................4
3) Evaluation and optimisation of current PM schedule.............................................................5
4) Table comparing previous and optimised PM schedule..........................................................6
5) Discussion about PM tasks within a TPM program................................................................7
QUESTION 3..................................................................................................................................8
1) Discuss 5 lean principles.........................................................................................................8
2) Discuss application of lean principles utilised in maintenance strategies.............................10
3) Root cause analysis of asset..................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
In a company asset are the most important part that can be easily converted into cash.
They are classified into two types that is tangible and non tangible. The overall asset of company
reflects its market value. It is essential to maintain those assets so that it can be used for long
term (Seecharan, Labib and Jardine, 2018). In order to do so, a proper maintenance strategy is
required which helps in evaluating and enhancing efficiency of asset. Besides this, in strategies
different types of risks are identified and and mitigated. Furthermore, it enables in improving
efficiency of asset by making changes in its process. However, sometimes changes are required
in strategies so that it decreases cost, time and resources of maintenance. This report will give an
insight on maintenance strategy of Elphinstone engineering. It will discuss about lean principles
followed by firm in strategy. The company is engaged in manufacturing trailers and equipment’s
of trucks. of different types of machinery tools used in Elphinstone engineering. It was founded
in 1976 by Graeme Elphinstone.
QUESTION 1
Construct a process flow diagram and establish asset inventory in Elphinstone engineering
A process flow diagram indicates how overall machinery tools works. It briefly describes
relationship between various equipment’s (Wakiru and et.al., 2018). There are many steps
included in it which defines how machine works. PFD are usually used in engineering
companies. this gives them an overview about from where process starts and end and in which
direction it moves.
Process flow in Elphinstone engineering
In Elphinstone engineering there are various types of machinery tools used. it is used in
manufacturing parts of heavy vehicles and also its components. They have to maintain them in
order to ensure its efficiency. For this, maintenance department ensure that they are properly
maintained. It helps in smooth running of functioning of asset within organisation. It has been
found that most of machinery used by company is gear box, electro motor, etc. The process flow
at Elphinstone engineering is described below :-
Assets Areas of Storage
1. Printing Machine Backoffice department
2. Plating Machine Factory
1