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CRE · Question #268
What is the first step when conducting a maintainability study for a piece of existing equipment?
The correct answer is C. Identifying the problems that are causing the majority of downtime. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Maintainability and Availability
Question
What is the first step when conducting a maintainability study for a piece of existing equipment?
Options
- AAnalyzing the root causes of the downtime.
- BCalculating the availability of the equipment.
- CIdentifying the problems that are causing the majority of downtime.
- DInstituting a failure reporting and corrective action system (FRACAS) process.
How the community answered
(53 responses)- A8% (4)
- B2% (1)
- C85% (45)
- D6% (3)
Topics
#maintainability study#downtime analysis#Pareto analysis#FRACAS
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