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PLANNED PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE PPM. Maintenance is the act of getting equipment to be functional, available and reliable in this case our dialysis machine. PPM involves daily inspections, cleaning, fine-tuning and adjustment of equipment to keep the machine in good condition.  It is regular repetitive work done to keep the machine working.  In this case, the operator is also the maintenance person engaged in PPM activities. The attitude of the user is that he/she has all business with the maintenance of the dialysis machine unlike in Corrective maintenance where the user has no business with even simple maintenance activities like cleaning but stick strictly to only machine operations. Common language heard is that it’s not my work. The attitude in corrective maintenance is that I operate to breakdown and the maintenance personnel has to fix it, ‘I have no business with maintenance’. It’s such a rude statement but unfortunately, this happens often.  Esprit de...

MAJOR BLOCKS WITH VITAL AND COMPLEX FUNCTIONS IN THE HYDRAULIC CIRCUIT. INTRODUCTION. The blocks in a hydraulic circuit with different functions helps in formulating a dialysate and delivery of the same to the dialyzer. These blocks are very essential to the working of a hydraulic circuit, without the blocks the dialysis treatment is rendered almost too impossible to undertake. There are SIX main blocks in a hydraulic circuit with various multi-functions that ensure the easy flow of the dialysate to and from the dialyzer. These include:       1.       HEATER BLOCK   #66a #66b #66c (please refer the above flow diagram)       2.       MULTIFUNCTION BLOCK #88a #88b #88c       3.       MIXING CHAMBER #205       4.       BALANCING CHAMBER #68       5.       HEAT EXCH...