A MAINTENANCE STRATEGY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT IN THE MOROCCAN UNIVERSITY

Mohamed Lakhloufi

Abstract

The scientific equipment pool in the Moroccan universities has suffered from the lack of maintenance policy. This is why the LIS has built an appropriate strategy of maintenance, constructed on 3 main pillars: i) The knowledge of the current state of the existing equipment and human resources. So, according to the inventory, launched by LIS since 1998, in average, 19% of the scientific equipment is out of use. This percentage is higher than 50% for complex instruments. Only less than 1% of the equipment have maintenance contract, 4% have technical manuals and 14% with maintenance manuals, etc. ii) The consolidation of the capabilities in maintenance is based on 3 types of training. Accordingly, since mid 1999, more than 100 technicians were trained on maintenance methods, electronic integrated circuits, maintenance and repair of NMR spectrometer, repair and work of laboratory glassware. Surface Mount Technology (STM) repair is also concerned. iii) The creation of a national network of maintenance cells is scheduled to start in 2003, in cooperation with the France Embassy in Rabat. This network will be created, organised and supervised, by LIS, the national unit of maintenance.

Keywords

Maintenance, training, organisation

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TC11 - Measurement in Testing, Inspection and Certification

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