You have been appointed as a biomedical engineer for a new hospital and you will be reporting to the operation manager. from the hospital inventory list given to you by the operation manager, from the hospital of 588 medical equipment has been installed in the hospital, with a total purchase of RM25 million. all the medical equipment warranty for the hospital will be expiring in 6 months' time. you have three (3) competent and experienced biomedical technicians as your subordinate.

a- the operation manager plans to outsource all the medical equipment maintenance to respective service companies. the role of your team is to supervise the outsourcing companies. given the medical equipment numbers and purchase price (as stated above) calculate: annually, how much the hospital needs to allocate to outsource all medical equipment maintenance activities?

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(the operation manager later realize that the annual budget that you have tabled, is somehow can be reduced by performing plan preventive maintenance (PPM) in-house. your three (3) technicians are trained, competent and certified to perform PPM at half (or 50%) of the total medical equipment.

Given the annual outsource amount earlier, calculate:

b- allocation for all PPM activities (100%), in RM

c- savings generated from inhouse PPM activities, in RM

d- final amount (of allocation) for annual maintenance activities, considering the 50% of the PPM done inhouse, in RM.

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aThe hospital will need to allocate RM500000 to outsource all medical equipment maintenance activiti... View the full answer