On Production State

It is a state in which the production is going on & there is no loss of output. Such a state is the most ideal state that any production engineer or manager wish to have always. And to achieve the same state he would depend again on the maintenance engineer to maintain his equipment or machinery in perfect condition & operable state. The maintenance engineer or the plant manager shall monitor the equipment without disturbing his production. It is done while machine is running and therefore called on line monitoring.

There exist some small activities such like cleaning, lubricating, inspection and setting at contacting parts, etc. that will avoid the probability of failure of a machine and enhance the life. These activities can be performed while the machine is running by monitoring at suitable intervals. Such activities shall not take much time rather shall be in few minutes (five to ten) only and therefore will not interrupt the production. Production State might be considered as two sub-states as Production State with on-line maintenance and Production State without on-line maintenance. In the former state there might be a little disturbance in the production instead of any loss of production where as in the latter one, there is no maintenance activities involved when production is going on.