Following completion of Chapter 18, students should be able to:

1. Develop a maintenance program for your plant, including equipment, buildings, grounds, channels, and tanks.
2. Start a maintenance recordkeeping system that will provide you with information to protect equipment warranties, to prepare budgets, and to satisfy regulatory agencies.
3. Schedule maintenance of equipment at proper time intervals.
4. Perform maintenance as directed by manufacturers.
5. Recognize symptoms that indicate equipment is not performing properly, identify the source of the problem, and take corrective action.
6. Recognize the serious consequences that could occur when inexperienced, unqualified, or unauthorized persons attempt to troubleshoot or repair electrical panels, controls, circuits, wiring, or equipment.
7. Communicate with electricians by indicating possible causes of problems in electrical panels, controls, circuits, wiring, and motors.
8. Properly select and use the following pieces of equipment (if qualified and authorized):
   1. Multimeter
   2. Ammeter
   3. Megger
   4. Ohmmeter
9. Safely operate and maintain auxiliary electrical equipment, including during standby and emergency situations.
10. Describe how a pump is put together.
11. Discuss the application or use of different types of pumps.
12. Start and stop pumps.
13. Maintain the various types of pumps.
14. Operate and maintain a compressor.
15. Develop and conduct an equipment lubrication program.
16. Start up, operate, maintain, and shut down gasoline engines, diesel engines, heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems.

NOTE: Special maintenance information is given in the previous chapters on treatment processes, where appropriate. The main purpose of this chapter is to teach operators how to develop a maintenance program, schedule maintenance activities, maintain equipment and facilities, record maintenance performed, and analyze maintenance records.

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