The Objective of Maintenance and Reliability Is To

question 79

Multiple Choice

The objective of maintenance and reliability is to:

• A) ensure that breakdowns do not affect the quality of the products.
• B) ensure that no breakdowns will ever occur.
• C) ensure that preventive maintenance costs are kept as low as possible.
• D) maintain the capability of the system.
• E) ensure that maintenance employees are fully utilized.

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Definitions:

Indigestible Substances

Materials that cannot be broken down and absorbed by the digestive enzymes and system of an organism, often passing through the system largely unchanged.

Entropy

Measure of how much the energy of a system is dispersed.

Energy Conversion

The process of changing one form of energy into another, such as solar energy into electricity.

Increasing Entropy

The process by which the disorder or randomness in a system increases, often associated with the second law of thermodynamics.