In order to have the greatest control over maintenance spending, which method of budgeting and reporting would work best?

• A.Historical spending
• B.Annual reduction of historical spending levels
• C.Activity-based costing
• D.Chargeback system where operations budgets and reports results

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Your plant (facility) is in a sold-out position You just told a visiting senior manager from the head office that the reason you place so much emphasis and spend so much money on maintenance planning is that it not only sales money, but it makes money for the business. He asks: How can it make money for the business? Your most comprehensive answer is:

• A.It improves quality yield through reduced process disruptions.
• B.It enables effective maintenance thereby increasing production capability.
• C.It ensures the mechanics are productive all day long.
• D.It reduces finished product inventory through increasing reliability.

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The historical evolution of maintenance methods from earliest to latest has been:

• A.breakdown (reactive), predictive, preventive, reliability centered.
• B.preventive, reliability centered, predictive, breakdown (reactive).
• C.breakdown (reactive), preventive, predictive, and reliability centered.
• D.reliability centered, predictive, preventive, breakdown (reactive).

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Which of the following best measures the effectiveness of the Maintenance and Reliability workforce?

• A.The amount of backlog work
• B.Trends in the Maintenance and Reliability budget
• C.A set of key performance indicators
• D.Man-hours of Maintenance and Reliability work performed by production

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When would a strategic plan for Maintenance and Reliability be most appropriately required?

• A.Fixed costs need to be reduced by 20% within the next year.
• B.The markets that the company operates in are changing on a weekly basis.
• C.Improved plant (facility) throughput is required to allow the business to commit to the requirements of a new customer.
• D.Planning and scheduling are not being property implemented at that plant (facility).

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