...Home Maintenance Paper Team A Pedro Viorato, Santos Nieto, Pao Yang, Samuel Vargas PRG/211 September 19, 2012 Bertram Lee University of Phoenix Home Maintenance Paper Our team has been assigned to come up with a software proposal that will help not only home owners but also those who rent homes. It is common knowledge that without regular home maintenance, whether it is a small or a simple fix could if gone unchecked mushroom into mega expensive repairs that might cause the homeowner to lose their investment. A routine maintenance check off list will ensure that the beauty and durability of a home and also will protect the homeowner’s investment for years to come. The routine maintenance check list that we have chosen to talk about is fixtures, appliances and pluming, which will be broken down into four different categories spring, fall, annual, as needed and as we know sometime we need a professional’s touch the last category is called pro needed. Problem Statement and Solution Our team of software developers won a contract in which we will develop a program to help its users identify recurring tasks to keep their home systems in good working conditions. The program will allow the user to keep a healthy home maintenance and stable home. The program will have different times of the year that it will be performed in order to maintain a good working conditions of the house. The tasks will be performed in the spring, fall, annual, as needed, and pro-needed...
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...Home Maintenance One of the biggest investments that a family will ever make is their home. Along with that investment comes another important aspect to owning a home, maintenance of it year around. Making the most of your investment is important and to insure this one must maintain the interior, exterior, plumbing, and the appliances. Maintenance benefits Maintaining your home comes with many benefits that can add value to your investment. Home maintenance is like a well checkup that is done on children but pertains to your house and its well-being. Keeping up with the maintenance saves you time and money in the long run as well as adds value to your investment. A home in despair increases safety/health risks, runs inefficiently which increases utility costs, and requires greater expenditure for maintenance and repair costs. Maintaining your home protects the value, improves the homes appearance, and keeps its appeal to the homeowner or other potential buyers. This also gives peace of mind to the home owner knowing that all systems, equipment, and components are in functional working order. The added value to the home with all the maintenance performed makes the home more desirable to potential buyers when it is placed on the market. Buyers’ take maintenance into consideration as well as other things like access to schools, neighborhood activity, traffic on through streets, and even the base price. In most cases a home inspector will be hired by the potential buyer...
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...Home Maintenance Program Nicole Chambers Andy Labance Pharia Reed 8/26/2014 PRG/221 James Johnson Have you ever finished cleaning your house, sat down to relax and then suddenly remember ‘I forgot to mop the floors’? Using this program will ensure that missing a step while cleaning your home is a thing of the past. We are going to use cleaning the kitchen as our example, and the way this program works is it will tell you in a sensible order to complete all of the required cleaning tasks to clean your kitchen properly, so that you’re not i.e. cleaning the floors then wiping counters and messing up the floors again. ABOUT THE PROGRAM: The first step this program tells you to do would be to wash the dishes, the program will prompt you to answer whether or not you have washed all of the dishes, if you answer no the program will tell you that you must wash the dishes in order to proceed to the next task and then prompt you to answer if you have washed the dishes. The program will continuously repeat this process until you answer ‘yes’ all of the dishes have been washed. After you answer ‘yes’ all of the dishes have been washed the program will tell you to proceed on to the next task of wiping down and sanitizing the counter tops. If in the beginning (the first time you are prompted to answer if the dished have been cleaned) you answer ‘yes’ all of the dishes have been washed this program will the direct you to proceed to completing the next task of...
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...BUSINESSES, WHY THEY THRIVE, THEIR LAPSES AND WHAT I THINK CAN BE DONE. s/n | list of businesses | what makes the businesses thrive | List five (5) identified lapses | WHAT DO YOU THINK CAN BE DONE | 1. | Crude Tank Cleaning & Maintenance Services | * It renders the business of supplying advanced cleaning services as well as cleaning equipment and systems to all industries where cleaning tanks are a requirement. It doesn’t just supply cleaning nozzles, but offers state of the art engineering services and support that is needed for cleaning applications. | * Expensive nature of cleaning per cubic meter. * Harmful environmental impact. * Released wastes are harmful to the environment. * Immovable nature of cleaning equipments(they cannot be removed from site even after applications * Stressed working conditions (at most 2 operators in 7hr-shifts). | * a reduced cost of cleaning per-cubic meter. * minimized preparation and construction costs * On-site utilities & equipments will not be required. * improved working conditions with increased number of operators per shift * production of sellable by-products * reduction of environmental impact | 2. | Software Engineering And Maintenance | * With the offshoot of the information age, and the lack of widespread competitive software engineers and maintainers * It provides anti-adware & malware technological flaws. * The frequent changes and upgrades in computer...
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.... Chapter Failure prevention and recovery 19 Eurotunnel response team during one of their regular patrols in the tunnel Source: Eurotunnel Introduction One obvious way of improving operations performance is by preventing failure. Failure is rarely unimportant, but in some operations it is vital that processes do not fail. Failure in aircraft in flight, for example, or electricity supplies to hospitals, or car seat belts, or the emergency services can be literally fatal. For these operations dependability is not just desirable, it is essential. Even in less critical situations, having dependable processes can give a competitive advantage. But no process is perfect and failures will occur. So it is important that we learn from all failures and have plans in place which help them recover and minimize their effects. Figure 19.1 shows how this chapter fits into the operation’s improvement activities. Operations strategy Failure prevention and recovery Operations process improvement makes processes better Design Operations management Improvement Total quality management organizes process improvement Planning and control Failure prevention and recovery stops processes becoming worse Topic covered in this chapter Figure 19.1 This chapter covers failure prevention and recovery . 618 Part Four Improvement Key questions I I I I I ??? Why do operations fail? How is failure measured? How can failure and potential failure be...
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...excellences, product leadership, and customer intimacy (Business Dictionary website, n.d.). Coca-Cola has recently rolled out the Operational Excellent (OE) Site Lead within all of the facilities. This new position is in place to drive the OE culture, built OE capability, and to deliver the OE vision across the facility. The OE site lead is responsible to provide expertise, training and leadership on Lean Principles and Structured Problem Solving to all employees. Other programs that OE has led to are Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and Total Quality Management (TQM) Recently Coca-Cola has been rolling out a new program called Total Productive Maintenance. This Total Productive Maintenance is a maintenance program that involves a newly defined concept for maintaining facility and equipment. The goal of the Total Productive Maintenance program is to noticeably increase production while at the same time, increasing employee morale and job satisfaction. Total Productive Maintenance was introduced to help the company to avoid waste, reduce cost and that the product sent to the customer had no defects. This program is set up at Coca-Cola to help the plant reduce unscheduled downtime on the machinery that...
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...Spring 2010 School of Engineering Maintenance impact on Production Profitability - A Case Study Växjö, 2010 Thesis no:TEK 028/2010 Obamwonyi Martyn Enofe Gregory Aimienrovbiye Department of Terotechnology (Total Quality Maintenance) Linnaeus University School of Engineering Department of Terotechnology (Total Quality Maintenance) 4SE31E Degree Project Master Thesis Författare/ Authors Obamwonyi Martyn Enofe Gregory Aimienrovbiye Linnaeus University Institutionen / Institution School of Engineering Department of Terotechnology (Systemekonomi) Dokumenttyp/Type of document Examensarbete (Degree Project) Handledare/Tutors Matias Taye Examinator/ Examiner Basim Al-Najjar Title och undertitel/ Title and subtitle Maintenance impact on Production Profitability - A Case Study Sammanfattning/Abstract Maintenance has had a tremendous impact on company’s proficiency to optimize its production system in order to meet its long term objectives. Generally, a production system in which maintenance is not given attention may easily lead to the system producing defective product as a result of machine defect. The purpose of this thesis is to utilized tools and methods to analyze the impact of maintenance implementation in a production system. The analytical Hierarchy process was utilized to filter the defining factors and sub-factors considered to be related to the life length and performance of production equipment in the research which was carried out at SCA...
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...River Arch User Fee 451000 - Interest & Dividend Inc 470000 - Rental Income 496000 - Boat Ramp Income 499000 - Miscellaneous Income Total Other Income Total River Walk Income General & Administrative 504000 - Accounting/Audit 506500 - Committees 506600 - Swim Team 508000 - Corporate Fees 511000 - Dues/Subscriptions 524000 - Insurance 528000 - Legal 532000 - Postage/Distribution 534000 - Printing 542000 - Uncollectable Accounts 549900 - Administrative/Salaries Total General & Administrative Common Utilities 551000 - Electricity 552000 - Gas 555000 - Telephone 557000 - Water Total Common Utilities Service & Contracts 566000 - Grounds Maintenance 568000 - Management 570000 - Pool Management 573000 - Security 576000 - Trash Removal Total Service & Contracts Building Maintenance Exp 587000 - General Bldg Maint & Rep 589000 - Lights Total Building Maintenance Exp Page 1 of 2 2012 Budget 371,640.00 371,640.00 2,000.00 3,864.00 6,426.00 4,750.00 5,000.00 11,000.00 100.00 300.00 33,440.00 405,080.00 4,000.00 2,000.00 3,200.00 250.00 279.00 12,000.00 2,000.00 4,700.00 12,000.00 1,000.00 11,000.00 52,429.00 22,000.00 3,000.00 1,950.00 6,000.00 32,950.00 83,000.00 49,279.00 52,000.00 11,000.00 5,000.00 200,279.00 24,000.00 8,000.00 32,000.00 2012 Monthly Budget 30,970.00 30,970.00 166.67 322.00 535.50 395.83 416.67 916.67 8.33 25.00 2,786.67 33,756.67 333.33 166.67 266.67 20.83 23.25 1,000.00 166.67 391.67 1,000.00 83.33 916.67 4,369.09 1,833.33 250.00 162.50 500.00 2,745.83 6,916.67...
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...completed much faster by technicians that perform it regularly and have all of the special equipment necessary. Taking everything into consideration I recommend that we outsource the inspection. Should Pacific Jet outsource the 72 month inspection? This is the first 72 month inspection that our 135 charter company (Pacific Jet) has coming due. Since we are a small operation with only 3 aircraft and 4 maintenance technicians performing a 72 month inspection in-house will be a huge undertaking. The main items to consider are costs, aircraft downtime, and quality control issues. We have to decide if we want to perform this inspection in-house our outsource it. The airlines have been outsourcing maintenance for decades and have accelerated this outsourcing rapidly since 2001. In 2005, some airlines outsourced as much as 62 percent of their maintenance and that number continues to grow. While they have increased their outsourcing of maintenance their accident rates have declined, statistically proving that outsourced maintenance is safe (Armstrong, 2007). There are many companies that could perform this inspection for us if we decide to outsource...
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...performance. Resources include manpower, materials, tools and special equipment. Access refers to when the equipment will be prepared and accessible so that it can be worked on in safe (locked out/tagged out) condition, with necessary precautions taken, permits obtained, and any specialized documentation, drawings, or information in hand. Proper time relates to job start, duration of execution, and completion within the time frame agreed upon with the internal customer during the weekly coordination meeting. The Weekly Expectation Scheduling is the locus from which all maintenance activity is executed. Scheduling should be viewed as the “point” function and “marketing arm” of the system because it yields the earliest tangible results (often within weeks of start up). All individuals and groups perform better and accomplish more with clearly established, communicated and published expectations. When the maintenance function is managed without a weekly schedule, there are no specific expectations as to what is to be accomplished with the resources for which payroll checks will be drawn. Instead, whatever reactive demands are made is what will be done. The fundamental requirement target (the schedule) against which to control, followed by action (execution of the schedule) to achieve the target. The results, measured against the original intention (called schedule compliance), provide feedback for correcting deviations (improving future schedule compliance). Managers...
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...MOM350 CONDITION MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT PROJECT 2 – SPRING 2013 LINN WETTELAND STUD.NR 204592 “USING FAULT TREES TO DETERMINE THE ROOT CAUSE OF ROTATING EQUIPMENT FAILURES” (Robert X. Perez) In the paper “Using fault trees to determine the root cause of rotating equipment failures”, the author, Robert X Perez, explains through his own experience as a senior reliability engineer at Citgo Petroleum Corporation, and through examples of various events in different systems the importance of finding the root cause(s) of failures in rotating equipment. The author explains these “major failures causing significant undesired events are the result of a series of events, and compares it to the reaction of a domino line being tipped over by a single domino chip. And studying chain of event, or probable scenarios is at the heart of RFCA’s” (Perez) The author focuses on FTA (Fault tree analysis) as a tool to determine such root causes. And gives examples of cases where use of these tools could have OR have prevented multiple damages due to one component failure causing failure in surrounding components. RCFA – Root Cause Failure analysis “Root Cause Failure analysis is a structured process to identify any physical, human and latent causes of undesirable event(s).And how such a process can be used in achieving continuous plant reliability improvements by targeting mechanical and organizational deficiencies in a process facility” (Perez). A tool for “Identification and correction...
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...our spirit all aided us to surmount difficulties during doing the research and show our ability confidently as well. We are also indebted to HUCFL Second - year English students for their cooperation to complete our questionnaires and their active contributions to suggest feasible solutions for our research topic. Last but not least, we can’t help mentioning the remarkable efforts of our group members. They conducted the research to the best of their ability and worked very hard to perfect the research as well as possible. Their merits are thankworthy. ABSTRACT Our research was carried out to investigate the attitude of HUCFL Second- year English students toward the school facility protection and some solutions for school facility maintenance. Due to the important of school facilities in the cause of HUCFL’s education- training and its status quo, we carried out the small- scale research to examine main causes of HUCFL’s facility damage. We delivered 20 questionnaires randomly to the Second – year English students and we thereafter analyzed the data collected from those questionnaires. Based on the research findings, we had the clear understanding about the concerned reality of HUCFL’s school facilities and the close relationship between the lack of students’ awareness and the degraded quality of the facilities. What is more, we realized that the students’ responsibility for protecting the school facilities is the main...
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...3 Ways to Prevent a Burst Pipe When cold weather strikes, the one thing you must be aware of is that your pipes can burst if they freeze. All it takes is one cold night to cause major problems and major damage to your home. It is important that you know exactly what to do to prevent a burst pipe in your home. The following are three ways to keep your home from becoming damaged from a burst pipe: Get Heat to the Pipes If your water pipes are located in an area that doesn’t get heat, they are at risk of freezing when the weather becomes cold. Find out where your pipes are and do what you can to get heat to the area. For example, with water pipes under your kitchen or bathroom sink, keep the cupboard doors open to allow the heat to get...
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...The ABC’s of Failure – Getting Rid of the Noise in Your System For the past 40 years, I have observed many companies, including DuPont (where I spent 27 years) pursuing planned maintenance with the standard tools of planned maintenance: inspections, planning, scheduling, materials procurement, CMMS systems, etc. with the same results. They succeed for a while and get their percent planned and scheduled maintenance up to the 80+ only to see that drop back later to 60 I am amazed how many of the companies we work with have had this experience. This pattern of behavior has led us to conclude that the reason for this experience is that only 60% of the normal work of maintenance is inherently plannable. The rest of the work is created by random acts of what we are now calling care-lessness. The sites where we see people break this pattern and achieve 92% to 96% planned maintenance for the long term without regressing, are the ones who eliminate the inherently unplannable work. Of course, this cannot be done by maintenance alone. Everyone who does work at a site contributes to the defects that create the unplannable work, and therefore everyone must participate in eliminating the defects that create the 40% of the work that is unplannable. In the diagram below we attempt to more clearly articulate the true significance of Defect Elimination by outlining the ABC’s of failure. Fundamentally, failures happen because things that exist are not perfect. To reduce failures we must eliminate...
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...Recommend and Implement a New Maintenance Ticketing Process Comcast South Florida has recently launched its new Customer Guarantee program that guarantees the work and services performed for 30 days or the consumer is able to receive several different packages as compensation. Recently the organization has changed its ticketing process when referring jobs to the Maintenance / Engineering Department and has asked my local leadership team to review and revamp the new process. This proposal provides a brief overview of the current process including its intricacies and outlines how we will perform our research and testing in preparation for our full report. Problem The newly revised Maintenance / Engineering ticketing system (also known as the - refer to maintenance) was intended to streamline the process and reduce downtime. Unfortunately, this revised ticketing process resides within its own system (TTS and Watchtower) and does not communicate with the current billing system (CSG), work order system or the call center. This has caused unnecessary additional down time for customers if their issues were not resolved the 1st time, financial loss from the company’s perspective and an inconvenienced customer. We need to identify a methodology that will allow the new ticketing system to communicate to the traditional billing system and all cross-functional areas. Justification/Feasibility With the new addition of Watchtower and TTS maintaining and issuing maintenance ticket numbers, the communication...
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