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Certificate in Breakdown Maintenance

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Breakdown Maintenance


About Breakdown Maintenance
Breakdown maintenance refers to the maintenance being executed after the equipment breaks down. Breakdown maintenance is done after the equipment becomes non-operational.

Planned breakdown maintenance refers that the organization being prepared for breakdown and parts or components needed are present. Thus, when equipment breaks down, an RTF (run to failure) is initiated after which breakdown maintenance is initiated with available spare parts.

Unplanned breakdown maintenance is sudden as the equipment breaks down unanticipated. Companies need to plan to avert unplanned breakdown maintenance.

Why is Breakdown Maintenance important?

Breakdown maintenance is important as it provides a multitude of benefits to the company. The benefits accrued are
•    very least amount of planning is needed
•    Being simple, and easy in implementation
•    Minimal staff needed

Who should take the Breakdown Maintenance Exam?

•    Production, Process, and  maintenance professionals
•    Business owners
•    Anyone who wants to assess maintenance skills
•    Entrepreneurs
•    Production, Process, and maintenance managers and senior executives


Breakdown Maintenance Certification Course Outline

1. Maintenance Basics
2. Maintainability Management
3. Maintainability Analysis
4. Equipment Failures
5. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
6. Breakdown Maintenance


Certificate in Breakdown Maintenance FAQs

You can directly go to the certification exam page and register for the exam.

You will be required to re-register and appear for the exam. There is no limit on exam retake.

There will be 50 questions of 1 mark each

No there is no negative marking

You have to score 25/50 to pass the exam.

The result will be declared immediately on submission.

It will be a computer-based exam. The exam can be taken from anywhere around the world.