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KAPOL VIDHYANIDHI COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY

SUBJECT: PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

SYBMS

ASSIGNMENT ON:

IMPACT OF POOR MAINTENANCE

SUBMITED BY:

NIMESH SHAH - 1020

SUBMITED TO:

PROF. HETA PAREKH

FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR: 2012 -2013.

DATE OF SUBMISSION: 14TH AUGUST, 2012.

INDEX

Sr. No.

Contents

Page No.

1.

INTRODUCTION

3

2.

THE BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY

4-5

3.

THE POTTER BAR RAIL ACCIDENT

6-7

4.

THE MINATO WARD INCIDENT

8-9

5.

THE LEARJET 60 N999LJ CRASH

10-11

6.

THE O'DONNEL PARK TRAGEDY

12-13

7.

WEBIOGRAPHY

14

INTRODUCTION:

WHAT IS MAINTENANCE? AND WHY IS IT IMORTANT?

Maintenance in simple words is a set of activities which help keep plant, equipment, machinery, vehicles and other facilities in good condition.

Every manufacturing organisation needs maintenance because, machines breakdowns, parts wear out and buildings deteriorate over a period of time of use.

Maintenance is an important factor in quality assurance . Inconsistencies in equipments lead to variability in product characteristics and result in defective parts that fail to meet the established specifications.

Good maintenance management is important for the company's cost control.

Organizations like airlines and oil refineries have huge investments in the equipment. Equipment failure will be disastrous for such companies.

Let us take a look at 5 such incidents caused due to poor maintenance, and the disastrous impact it can cause not just to the companies involved but also to the life of many people.

THE BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY:

DATE:

Night of 2-3rd December, 1984.

PLACE:

Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.

INCIDENT:

The tragedy took place due to the uncontrolled leakage of a poisonous gas Methyl Isocyanate known as MIC into the atmosphere from a storage tank in a pesticide manufacturing plant.

FATALITIES:

5,000 dead; 20,000 seriously injured and 2,00,000 seriously affected by MIC.

MAIN CAUSE:

Poor maintenance of plant and ignored security measures,