SOP Title: Preventive Maintenance of Instruments/Equipment’s
- Objective:
To lay down the procedure for Preventive Maintenance of Instruments/Equipment’s.
- Scope:
This SOP is applicable for Preventive Maintenance of Instruments/Equipments to prevent the failure of Instruments/Equipments before it actually occurs in Quality Control Department.
- Responsibility:
- Quality Control Department: To prepare and review the SOP. To follow the procedures laid down for Preventive Maintenance of Instruments/Equipments in Quality Control Department as per this SOP.
- Engineering Department: To carry out preventive maintenance as per schedule and procedure defined.
- Quality Assurance Department: To review and approve the SOP and Annexures.
- Accountability:
Head Quality Control Department, Head Quality Assurance Department
- Procedure:
| 5.1 | Preventive Maintenance of Instruments/Equipment’s: | |
| 5.1.1 | Preventive Maintenance is a schedule of planned maintenance actions aimed at the prevention of breakdowns and failures. | |
| 5.1.2 | The ideal Preventive Maintenance programme would prevent all equipment failures before it occurs. | |
| 5.1.3 | Long Term Benefits of Preventive Maintenance:
1. Improved Instrument Reliability 2. Decreased cost of replacement 3. Reduces Equipments/Instruments Downtime |
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| 5.1.4 | Preventive Maintenance activities include Equipments/Instruments checks, partial or complete overall checks at specified interval/period, e.g. oil changes, lubrication of parts, cleaning of parts. | |
| 5.1.5 | In addition to the above the analyst has to maintain the usage log book for all the major instruments. | |
| 5.1.6 | On the basis of the usage record and observations, an idea of the replacement of worn parts can be obtained. | |
| 5.1.7 | Preventive Maintenance of all major equipments is to be carried out as per Annual Preventive Maintenance Schedule by Engineering Department and the necessary records of the same should be maintained. | |
| 5.1.8 | On the day of Preventive Maintenance, label the Instrument/Equipment as “Under Preventive Maintenance”. | |
| 5.1.9 | Carry out the parameters for Preventive Maintenance as mentioned in individual Instrument/Equipment SOP. | |
| 5.1.10 | Preventive Maintenance Checklist shall be prepared for all Instruments/Equipments as per Annexure. | |
| 5.1.11 | Preventive Maintenance shall be carried out for analytical Instruments/Equipments as per frequency mentioned in Annual Preventive Maintenance Schedule and Preventive Maintenance window shall be ± 7 working days from the due date of PM. | |
- Definitions / Abbreviations:
- Definitions:
- Breakdown: Any activity leading to operation of Instrument/Equipment other than the set parameters or unusual sound or vibration observed in the instrument/equipment.
- Preventive Maintenance: Maintenance activity performed to ensure that the Instrument/Equipment will function smoothly and to avoid breakdowns. These activities are performed as per predefined frequency.
Abbreviations:
| Abbreviation | Expansion |
| SOP | Standard Operating Procedure |
| QC | Quality Control |
| QA | Quality Assurance |
| No. | Number |
| PM | Preventive Maintenance |
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