QUESTION :

B1

What should be done first to address a gap between your manufacturing performance and

World Class performance?

A. Develop gap closure plans and begin to implement them

B. Assign additional resources to work on attaining World Class performance

C. Define the value of the gap to determine its worth to the company

D. Review gap analysis to ensure it reflects your current performance accurately

B2

When would a strategic plan for Maintenance and Reliability be most appropriately

required?

A. Planning and scheduling are not being property implemented at that plant (facility).

B. Improved plant (facility) throughput is required to allow the business to commit to the

requirements of a new customer.

C. The markets that the company operates in are changing on a weekly basis.

D. Fixed costs need to be reduced by 20% within the next year

B3

Which of the following is least likely to be linked to Maintenance and Reliability process

improvements?

A. Improved product design

B. Reduced rework

C. Lower operating costs

D. Better availability capability

B4

When acquiring mission-critical, major machinery, it is usually appropriate to use a detailed

equipment specification to assure the best equipment is selected and purchased. Which of

the following is the most appropriate approach to developing an equipment specification for

a piece of equipment?

A. Arrange for potential equipment suppliers to provide their own Sales and Engineering

representatives to visit the plant (facility) where the equipment is to be installed, as often as

necessary, to prepare an equipment specification

B. Review applicable company specifications, as well as supplier and other machinery

specifications. Develop a custom specification that provides detailed construction,

installation, performance, and other criteria as determined by mission requirements.

Confirm that machinery offered by suppliers will meet the criteria in the custom

specification

C. Review applicable specifications from appropriate industry groups, Bee the American

Petroleum Institute (API). National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) etc and

select the specification that best meets the business goals.

D. Send potential suppliers' copies of all of the applicable specifications your company has

developed, with a cover letter explaining that equipment provided must meet applicable

points within the specifications provided. Review supplier quotes and purchase the

equipment from the supplier whose quote best meets business goals.

B5

Which of the following failures, when avoided, is considered a"best practice" for

Industrial maintenance?

A. Design induced

B. Machine induced

C. Self induced

D. Manufacturer induced

B6

Process measures are leading indicators that offer an indication of task performance with a

lead time to manage for successful results. All of the following are examples of leading

indicators except:

A. % planned maintenance.

B. Asset Availability.

C. planner to craft workers ratio.

D. % rework

B7

In developing a business plan for a maintenance and reliability improvement initiative it is

important that the:

A. plant manager leads the planning effort to develop the business plan so that ithas

credibility and gains buy-in.

B. business plan is entered into the Computerized Maintenance Management System and

understood by the controller.

C. business plan outlines a payback on investment of between 1- 1/2 years and2- 1/4

years, with metrics totrack.

D. business plan is a formal document that is linked to the corporate business objectives

and operating goals and other initiatives

B8

The historical evolution of maintenance methods from earliest to latest has been:

A. reliability centered, predictive, preventive, breakdown (reactive).

B. preventive, reliability centered, predictive, breakdown (reactive).

C. breakdown (reactive), predictive, preventive, reliability centered.

D. breakdown (reactive), preventive, predictive, and reliability center

B9

Which of the following is not a typical element of a performance agreement between

maintenance and operations?

A. Repair response time targets

B. Machine availability targets

C. Agreed upon staffing levels

D. Call-out procedures and guidelines

B10

The primary use of a performance agreement between operations and maintenance is to:

A. Deploy resources most effectively.

B. Know who is responsible when a problem occurs.

C. Clarify operating roles and responsibilities.

D. Minimize unnecessary call-outs

B11

What is the relationship between leading indicator metrics and lagging indicator metrics in

the field of Maintenance and Reliability?

A. Lagging indicators are measures that reflect accomplishment of goals, while leading

indicators are measures of what must be done to improve results.

B. Leading indicators are measures that reflect accomplishment of goals while lagging

indicators are measures of what must be done to improve results.

C. Leading indicators are low level measures that reflect accomplishment of goals, while

lagging indicators are measures of what must be done to improve results.

D. Leading indicators are used by management, while lagging indicators are used by

personnel on the shop floor

B12

There are many ways to improve reliability in the design stage of rotating machinery

development. Eight basic ways are: minimize the static loading, minimize dynamic loading,

minimize cyclic effects, reduce operating temperatures, remove stress raisers, reduce

friction, design for accurate assembly, and isolate corrosive and erosive effects. In regards

to applying these principles to a machine that is already in service:

A. Once a machine is in service, the operating temperature can be lowered without

consulting the manufacturer since lowering temperature always extends machine life.

B. There is little that can be done to improve the basic designed-in reliability" of rotating

machinery once it has been manufactured and placed in service.

C. Maintenance and operations teams can improve machinery reliability by considering the

same basic things that designers look at when designing reliability into a machine.

D. Manufacturers have to take all potential operating conditions into account when

designing rotating equipment so it's not likely you can improve reliability by changing the

operating environment

B13

Which of the following best measures the effectiveness of the Maintenance and Reliability

workforce?

A. The amount of backlog work

B. A set of key performance indicators

C. Trends in the Maintenance and Reliability budget

D. Man-hours of Maintenance and Reliability work performed by production

B14

What aspect of improving reliability is most often overlooked?

A. Assessing the impact of change on the workforce

B. Development of employee skills in root cause analysis

C. Application of state-of-the-art condition monitoring technologies

D. Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) functionality

B15

Which of the following is a directly controllable leading performance indicator?

A. Monthly production levels

B. Schedule compliance

C. Unplanned downtime

D. Plant (Facility) profitability

B16

Superior quality of a product or service can be maintained if the organization:

A. continues product or service improvement and has effective market promotion.

B. holds product specifications constant and historically accurate.

C. ensures its marketing and field service quality controls are perfect.

D. continually promotes its claims to superior quality and market leadership

B17

A plant (facility) has acquired three new screw pumps to replace centrifugal pumps. Within

two months of installation it is found the seals have deteriorated allowing the release of

hazardous chemicals into the work place. Which of the following is the best step that the

maintenance or reliability leader could have taken to prevent this failure from occurring?

A. Assured an experienced maintenance representative worked on the design review of the

pumps

B. Participated in the development of manufacturers standards for screw pumps and seal

designs

C. Ensured the project provided an enclosure to contain fluids in the event of a seal leak

D. Reviewed and selected manufacturers to bid on the screw pumps based on their past

Performance

B18

Which time interval must be considered to decide how frequently to perform a condition

monitoring maintenance activity?

A. The time interval remaining before a failure after the most recent preventive

maintenance operation has been performed

B. The time interval between the occurrence of a detectable potential failure and its decay

into a functional failure

C. The Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) of the failure being detected, plus a time

safety margin

D. The MTBF of the failure being detected, minus a time safety margin

B19

Which of the following has the least impact on maintenance and operations process

improvements?

A. Cross-functional improvement teams

B. Preventive maintenance

C. Age and condition of assets

D. Manufacturing teams

B20

Return on Assets (ROA) is determined by:

A. Net income/Total assets

B. Gross income/Total assets

C. Revenue/Total assets

D. Net income/Maintenance costs

B21

Which of the following statements about reliability is true?

A. Reliability of a system or equipment can be improved as a result of administration or

legislation

B. A reliable system can be designed from unreliable components if enough redundancy is

used.

C. Reliability of a system or equipment can be improved as a result of testing.

D. Increasing the amount of maintenance cannot improve reliability above the level

established by the design of a system

B22

Using predictive technologies, approximately what percent of failures in rotating equipment

can be found?

A. 80%

B. 60%

C. 40%

D. 20%

B23

What analysis process can best be used to perform a gap analysis?

A. Risk analysis

B. Benchmarking

C. Root cause analysis

D. Fishbone diagram

B24

What is the first method that should be considered for controlling noise exposure?

A. personal protective equipment

B. reduction of noise transmitted

C. reduction of noise at its source

D. develop noise transmission standards in equipment specifications

B25

Two common reliability specifications to include in purchase orders for equipment are:

A. Availability (A) and Maximum Required Outage Time (MROT).

B. Guaranteed Uptime (GU) and Guaranteed Downtime (GD).

C. Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and Mean Time To Repair (MTTR).

D. Mean Time Between Repair (\1TBR) and Guaranteed Availability (GA)

B26

What is the best way for a Maintenance and Reliability Program to use process

parameters?

A. Justify replacement equipment purchases

B. Assist in the explanation of failures

C. Assign detects to equipment and systems

D. Correlate to changes in equipment condition

B27

Which of the following factors are considered when ranking equipment by Criticality? Select

the best answer.

A. Number of starts per year and cost of power to operate

B. Probability of equipment failure and severity of consequences

C. Equipment age and annual maintenance cost

D. Probability of environmental consequences if a failure occurs and cost of failure

B28

In a Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) program what is autonomous maintenance?

A. Proactive maintenance as a result of condition monitoring

B. Maintenance that is carried out by the production department

C. Maintenance performed while the asset is in production

D. Planned preventive maintenance such as lubrication

B29

What factor is not used to calculate Overall Equipment Effectiveness?

A. Availability

B. Failure Rate

C. Quality Rates

D. Throughput Rat

B30

Quantitative analyses, such as break even analysis, can be oversimplifications of the

problem because:

A. Assumptions depart too far from reality.

B. All of the variables are covered.

C. Management needs simple answers.

D. Options are analyzed and weighed.