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SMRP CMRP - Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional

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Total 148 questions

In lean Manufacturing environment which formula most accurately defines profit?

A.

(Price-Cost-Waste)/Volume

B.

Profit = Price - Cost

C.

Profit = (Price-Cost)/Volume

D.

Profit = (price-cost) X volume

Root Cause Failure Analysis has determined that 30% of premature equipment failures are due to human errors. As the maintenance manager, what would be your first step to begin improving this performance?

A.

Increase inspection of all equipment repairs

B.

Conduct a skills assessment of the craft (trade) workforce

C.

Implement a refresher training program

D.

Attach assembly diagrams to all work orders

When acquiring mission-critical, major machinery, it is usually appropriate to use a detailed equipment specification to assure the best equipment is selected and purchased. Which of the following is the most appropriate approach to developing an equipment specification for a piece of equipment?

A.

Arrange for potential equipment suppliers to provide their own Sales and Engineering representatives to visit the plant (facility) where the equipment is to be installed, as often as necessary, to prepare an equipment specification

B.

Review applicable company specifications, as well as supplier and other machinery specifications. Develop a custom specification that provides detailed construction, installation, performance, and other criteria as determined by mission requirements. Confirm that machinery offered by suppliers will meet the criteria in the custom specification

C.

Review applicable specifications from appropriate industry groups, Bee the American Petroleum Institute (API). National Electrical Manufacturer’s Association (NEMA) etc and select the specification that best meets the business goals.

D.

Send potential suppliers' copies of all of the applicable specifications your company has developed, with a cover letter explaining that equipment provided must meet applicable points within the specifications provided. Review supplier quotes and purchase the equipment from the supplier whose quote best meets business goals.

Which of the following is not a typical element of a performance agreement between maintenance and operations?

A.

Repair response time targets

B.

Machine availability targets

C.

Agreed upon staffing levels

D.

Call-out procedures and guidelines

What is a standard methodology to reduce or increase the frequency of a PM inspection?

A.

Risk Based Inspection (RBI)

B.

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

C.

American Petroleum Institute (API)

D.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

The two primary costs in the classical inventory management models that are utilized to determine the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) are the acquisition cost of inventory and the inventory possession cost. Which of the following best describes the relationship of these costs with the number of inventory turns peryear as the number of turns per year increases?

A.

acquisition cost increases and inventory possession cost increases

B.

inventory possession cost and variable cost increase

C.

acquisition cost decreases and inventory possession cost increases

D.

acquisition cost increases and inventory possession cost decreases

What would dictate the basicminimum skill requirements for new Maintenance and Reliability employees?

A.

The skills available in the general workforce

B.

The current level of plant (facility) technology

C.

The content of the apprenticeship program

D.

The educational demographics of the region

You are new to the job of maintenance manager. As you start reviewing the work done by your five planners you find that, on average, they are dividing their time as follows:

5% Interviewing area personnel to scope out jobs

2% Creating pipe sketches and other small drawings

9% Ordering materials through the Computerized Maintenance Management System

(CMMS)

5% Creating work order estimates

15% Researching what spare parts are needed and where to find them

25% Expediting materials that have not come in yet

5% Creating material kits for future jobs and maintaining the kitting area

1% Creating formal job steps in the work order record in the CMMS

10% Checking on field progress of the larger jobs

15% Talking with mechanics to explain the details of work they are to perform

8% Closing work orders and other data clean up tasks in the CMMS

In which two areas should you concentrate onto make the planners more productive?

A.

Eliminate the practice of job materials kitting or staging and purchase a different computerized maintenance and materials system

B.

Encourage the planners to create more detailed job instructions in the work order record and hire another designer draftsman

C.

Increase the planning horizon and improve the quality of bills of material in the computerized maintenance and materials system

D.

Improve their communication skills through training and train all planners on proper estimation methods

While performing an inspection of a machinery type it is noticed that the attached structure has more vibration that the actual equipment type. This is an example of what?

A.

Transmitted Hz

B.

Transmitted harmony

C.

Spectral radiance

D.

Resonance

When forming teams to address reliability issues, four stages of team development should be recognized and managed by the reliability professional. These stages in order are:

A.

Warming/Absorbing/Performing/Norming.

B.

Forming/Absorbing/Storming/Performing.

C.

Forming/Storming/Norming/Performing.

D.

Warming/Swarming/Absorbing/Norming.