[Deshmukh, 3(12): December, 2014] ISSN: 2277-9655 Scientific Journal Impact Factor: 3.449 (ISRA), Impact Factor: 2.114 http: // www.ijesrt.com © International Journal of Engineering Sciences & Research Technology [8] IJESRT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES & RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY An Optimal Maintenance Strategy for Effective Utilization of Engineering Workshop in Technical Institutes Yogesh P.Deshmukh Mechanical Engineering Department, G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering & Management, ` Amravati- 444603 (M.S), India Abstract Engineering workshop at the institute level is an important instructional area in the campus. It is subjected to frequent changes in operators after one batch of student to another. Workshop Supervisor and instructors face an uphill task to maintain the machine tools to be made available to students in good state of condition. Lack of experienced maintenance personnel and unavailability of time slot in the working hours leaves the machine tools unwarranted to any of the standard maintenance procedures. It is common scenarios in every institute to witness machine tools are under maintenance and less numbers available in commensurate to the students in the batch of 15 to 20. The paper recommends the combination of Preventive and Condition-Based Maintenance procedure to be followed to ensure all time availability of machine tools to the students in every batch. Recommendations on testing methods, maintenance plans is included to assist the Instructors and supervisor. Method of maintenance for several components of different machine tools is also elaborated. Keywords: Machine tool, workshop, maintenance. Introduction Maintenance General This research paper is proposed to set up suggested practice as well as to give broad opinion and direction in the maintenance of machine tools and auxiliaries in workshop at engineering institutes. Maintenance proposals are based on engineering standards and familiarity in workshop practice and manufacturing process facilities. Although, machine tools and situations vary to a great extent, and sound engineering and management decision must be used when considering these recommendations. Other sources of information must be checked (e.g., manufacturer’s suggestions, strange operating conditions, own experience with the machine tool, etc.) in combination with these maintenance suggestions. Preventive Maintenance Preventive maintenance (PM) is an activity of maintaining engineering equipment on a customary schedule based on utilization timing or meter readings. The purpose of PM is to “avert” maintenance problems or breakdowns before they occur by pursuing routine and all maintenance procedures. The aim is to accomplish lesser, shorter, and more unsurprising outages. Advantages of PM are,  It can be anticipated, facilitating budgeting, planning, and arranging resources possible.  When appropriately practiced, it normally prevents most of the problems, thus reducing enforced outages and hence reduction in maintenance costs.  It assures supervisors that machine tools are in good state and is being maintained.  It is easily to understand and justify. PM also has some drawbacks,  It consumes more time and resource intensive.  While scheduling and performing the maintenance activity, it does not consider actual machine tool condition.  Instead of solving, it can cause the problems in machine tools (e.g., damaging o-rings and seals, stripping threads). Despite these demerits, PM has proven well in the past and is still the important one among the most maintenance plans. Traditionally, institutional engineering workshop has been experiencing PM as the standard maintenance activity. The maintenance suggestions in this paper