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Article history: Received: January 11, 2018 Received in revised format: March 3, 2018 Accepted: May 9, 2018 Available online: May 10, 2018 An effective operations of a projection spot welding (PSW) machine is closely related to the effectiveness of the maintenance. Timely maintenance can prevent failures and improve reliability and maintainability of the machine. Therefore, establishing the maintenance frequency for the welding machine is one of the most important tasks for plant engineers. In this regard, reliability analysis of the welding machine can be used to establish preventive maintenance intervals (PMI) and to identify the critical parts of the system. In this reliability and maintainability study, analysis of the PSW machine was carried out. The failure and repair data for analysis were obtained from automobile manufacturing company located in Uzbekistan. The machine was divided into three main sub-systems: electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic. Different distributions functions for all subsystems was tested and their parameters tabulated. Based on estimated parameters of the analyzed distributions, PMI for the PSW machines sub-systems at different reliability levels was calculated. Finally, preventive measures for enhancing the reliability of the PSW machine sub-systems are suggested. © 2018 by the authors; licensee Growing Science, Canada

A reliability-based preventive maintenance methodology for the projection spot welding machine