ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF PREDICTIVE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE PARAMETERS OF SOME PARTS AND OPERATIONAL SUPPLEMENTS OF AGRICULTURAL TRACTOR ENGINE

Abstract

ABSTRACT Agricultural machinery maintenance has a critical role for successful agricultural production. It aims at ensuring the safety of operations and reliability of machines and related equipment for farming operations. Moreover, it is one main cost for agriculture operations. Thus, the increased competition in agricultural production demands maintenance improvement, aiming at the reduction of maintenance expenditures while keeping the safety of operations. This issue is addressed by the methodology presented in this study. It is the follow up all means of obtaining information and data, either from restricted records or personal interviews or experiments and tests. This was done in coordination with three sectors: Governmental sector (North Giza District – Giza Governorate), Private sector (mandate Landini® tractors in the governorates of Egypt) and Research oriented sector (The Agricultural Experiment Station, Fac. Of Agric., Cairo University). So, the aim of this study was to give a brief introduction to various preventive, predictive maintenance systems (specific condition-based maintenance (CBM) techniques), selection of condition monitoring techniques which can be applied.