Maintenance Engineer Interview Preparation Guide

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Capacity planning is the translation of the maintenance load into resource needed to meet the forecasted load. Resources include, number and skills of craftsmen, maintenance tools, labor, material, spare parts, etc.

You should tailor this to the responsibilities of the role you are interviewing for and try to keep your answer centred on the positives.

Maintenance scheduling is the process of assigning resources for tasks to be accomplished at a certain time in a certain frequency. Scheduling of tasks should take into account production schedules, optimization of resources and reducing costs.

It is a device to do drawing work neatly and quickly.An attachment provided to move any position and may be adjusted at any required height.

It is a graphical representation of a real thing to define and specify the shape and size of a particular object by means of lines.

It is used to limit a broken section. For short break an uneven freehand thick line is recommended and for long breaks a long thin ruled dashes joined by freehand ‘ Zig Zags’ are used.

Divide the shaft diameter size by 5, it will give last two digit of the bearing no. and according to type of load we have to chose the type of bearing and that will give prior no. of the bearing.

Maintenance forecasting is a major part of planning concerned with estimating the current and future amount of maintenance work and type needed. Maintenance load forecasting is a complex task that involves a lot of uncertainties and influenced by many factors such as the age of the equipment, the rate of use, usage climate, and skills of workers.

An accident is a unexpected and unforeseen event which may or may not injury to a person or a machine tool.

Centreline is a thin line in the form long and short dashes. It indicates area of symmetrical parts, circles and path of motion.

☛ Maintenance philosophy
☛ Maintenance load forecasting
☛ Maintenance capacity
☛ Maintenance scheduling.

First Aid is immediate and temporary care given to a person who affected accidental injury or a sudden illness before the arrival of doctor.

As per Indian Standards:
1250×900,
900×650,
650×500,
500×350,
350×250
sizes are available.

These are thin lines composed of long dashes with pair of short dashes. Phantom Lines used to show adjacent parts, alternate positionsand the lines of motion.

Chain dimensioning can be used where the possible accumulation of tolerance does not cause danger to the functional requirement of the part.

Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) was initiated by the commercial aviation industry and then adopted by the U.S. military in the 1970s and then by the U.S. commercial nuclear power industry (in the 1980s) followed by other commercial industries and fields in the early 1990s.

RCM is defined by the technical standard SAE JA1011, as ‘‘an engineering framework that enables the definition of a complete maintenance regime. It regards maintenance as the means to maintain the functions a user may require of machinery in a defined operating context’’.

This is used to measure very small unit with greater accuracy. It consists of a primary scale and a vernier scale.Vernier scale slides on the primary scale.

It is imperative that you do not complain about the workload in your previous job, even if it was taxing. Illustrate your efficiency; explain how you manage your time and prioritise tasks.

The oldest type of manufacturing system is the custom manufacturing where a person or a machine makes a certain product tailored to a specific need. A shoemaker is an example of this system. Modern manufacturing have intermittent, continuous or flexible production systems.

Section lines are thin lines and used to show the cut surface of an object in sectional view.

Software scope is a well-defined boundary, which encompasses all the activities that are done to develop and deliver the software product.

The software scope clearly defines all functionalities and artifacts to be delivered as a part of the software. The scope identifies what the product will do and what it will not do, what the end product will contain and what it will not contain.

Several maintenance concepts were developed in different parts of the world that are usually based on cultural and philosophical backgrounds. These trends encompass other strategies and technologies of maintenance. Some of these concepts are briefly introduced below:

☛ Total Productive Maintenance
☛ Reliability Centered Maintenance
☛ Maintenance Strategies

You could talk about one engineering achievement that you are especially proud of, or you could explain how day-to-day aspects of the work stimulate you. If it is the latter, you should again tailor this to the role for which you are interviewing.

Maintenance is one of the major activities in manufacturing as it highly influences production quality and quantity and directly affects production cost and customer satisfaction. As new manufacturing technologies emerge and global communication advances, new maintenance practices are developed to cope with these changes.

This is an ideal opportunity to depict several key qualities such as attention to detail, effective communication and creative thinking. You should come to the interview prepared with an example.