Maintenance Planning and Scheduling: Streamline Your Organization for a Lean Environment

The purpose of this chapter is first to determine your comprehension and retention of the material in Chapters 1 through 10, and second to provide a review and summary of that same material. The answers to all the questions and exercises in this chapter are contained in Appendix E. Since the material, the questions and the answers are all contained between the front and back covers of this text, you, the reader, are effectively empowered to approach this test in any manner you choose. However, to gain the most beneficial rewards from this test, the following approach is recommended:
Utilize a separate sheet of paper to enter the number of each question together with your response. ( Entering your answers in the book itself will preclude effective use of the self-test by anyone else.)
Proceed to answer the questions and complete the exercises in this chapter based on memory only, but if unsure of the correct answer, do not guess. Leave that response blank.
When you have completed the exercises and answered all questions that you were able to, go back to your first blank response and search the text for the information needed to respond correctly. Continue until your answer sheet has no more blanks.
Now, proceed to Appendix E to score your answer sheet. If any responses were incorrect, search the text again to find the information to substantiate the correct response given in Appendix E. ( Taking at face value the Appendix E answers...