Breakdown Maintenance Practice Exam

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.

There are other types of maintenance like preventive which is done to keep equipment running and prevent any break down.

Planned breakdown maintenance refers that the organization is prepared for breakdown and parts or components needed are present. Thus, when equipment breaks down, a 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 multitude of benefits to the company. The benefits accrued are
•    Very least amount of planning is needed
•    Being simple, 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 Exam Objectives

Breakdown Maintenance exam assess your skills in designing, developing and implementing breakdown maintenance program for the organization.

Breakdown Maintenance Exam Prerequisite

Breakdown Maintenance exam has no prerequisite. Candidate should have good knowledge of breakdown maintenance  to clear the exam.

Breakdown Maintenance Certification Course Outline
1. Maintenance Basics
1.1 Condition Based or Predictive Maintenance
1.2 Planned Maintenance
1.3 Functional Testing
1.4 Continuous Improvement or ultimately Design out
1.5 Run to Failure/Nil Maintenance

2. Maintainability Management
2.1 Planning
2.2 Maintenance Strategies and Allocation
2.3 Availability Tradeoffs

3. Maintainability Analysis
3.1 Maintenance Time Distributions
3.2 PM Analysis
3.3 CM Analysis
3.4 Testability

4. Equipment Failures
4.1 Age-related failure mode
4.2 Non-age-related failure mode
4.3 Failure Analysis Tools
4.4 Five Whys
4.5 Ishikawa/Fishbone Diagram
4.6 Cause-and-Effect Analysis/Causal Factor Tree
4.7 Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
4.8 Fault or Logic Tree Analysis
4.9 Barrier Analysis
4.10 Change Analysis/Kepner-Tregoe
4.11 Statistical Tools
4.12 Data Analytics

5. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
5.1 What is OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness)?
5.2 OEEE Example
5.3 The Six Big Losses
5.4 SMED

6. Breakdown Maintenance
6.1 Breakdown Maintenance
6.2 Breakdown Maintenance Tools
6.3 Breakdown Maintenance Techniques
6.4 Breakdown Maintenance Working
6.5 Preventive Maintenance
6.6 Predictive Maintenance


Exam Format and Information
Certification name – Breakdown Maintenance Certification
Exam duration – 60 minutes
Exam type - Multiple Choice Questions
Eligibility / pre-requisite - None
Exam language - English
Exam format - Online
Passing score - 25
Exam Fees  - INR 1199