An investigation into the maintenance culture of industrial generators in the agro-based industries in Ibadan,\nSouth-West Nigeria has been carried out. The instrument used for this survey includes: interview, market survey direct\nobservation and questionnaires. The study investigated the status of agro based industries with reference to electrical energy\ncarrying capacity, level of compliance with service schedule, response time to failure and repair as well as cost implications in\nmaintenance of such installations. Investigation revealed that over 75% of the agro-based industries in the South-West town\nof Ibadan are predominantly medium scale in status with a carrying capacity of less than 550KVA electricity generating\nequipment. There is high level compliance (92.5%) in keeping of daily maintenance record, negligence on long time fuel\nkeeping (up to 5 weeks at times), a greater degree of negligence in mean time to repairs (MTTR) on malfunctioned\ncomponents and poor response time to servicing the generator at the recommended hours of use. Therefore, the industries\nshould greatly improve on their attitude to wake-up calls on equipment servicing if recurrent failure and excessive spending\non generator is to be kept low. The continuous use of generator with malfunctioned part should be stopped. A stop and check\napproach is recommended immediately when abnormality is noticed in operation; there should be immediate stoppage,\nconfirmation and correction of the fault just developed
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