Good Maintenance Program Elements

The facility should be maintained in a way that cost-effectively controls the probability of failure-induced incidents and their likely consequences. A cost-effective maintenance program allocates maintenance resources according to the level of risk. 

An effective facility-wide maintenance program should include the following key components  

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Elimination of dryer maintenance. Dryers are high maintenance items with clogged filters, heater element burnout, and contaminated desiccant beds. Even in shops with good routine maintenance programs, it is common to operate with ineffective dryers for long periods before they are noticed. When this happens, quality goes down, and scrap accumulates. 

The interpretation of quality assurance is, according to ISO 9000, all those planned and systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that the product or service will satisfy given requirements for quality . Basic elements of quality assurance are quality policy and activities of quality assurance programs, e.g., calibration, collaborative studies, good measurement practice (GMP), standard operating procedure (SOP), staff training, and instrument maintenance and inspection (audit). 

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