Units
Engineering Asset Management and Maintenance
Unit code: ENB432
Contact hours: 4 per week
Credit points: 12
Information about fees and unit costs
This unit includes the following: engineering asset management policy statement; overhaul and replacement of engineering assets; organisation for maintenance; maintenance planning and control; failure mode and effect analysis; reliability, maintainability and availability analysis; risk assessment; spare parts inventory management.
Availability
| Semester | Available |
|---|---|
| 2013 Semester 1 | Yes |
Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013
Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.
Rationale
Engineers are often involved in the management of substantial amounts of plant equipment, machinery and similar assets. In today's capital intensive industries, maintenance is a major cost element, and the efficiency of operations is heavily influenced by equipment reliability and effective maintenance. As an engineer, you need to know how to organise maintenance efficiently and how to create and implement effective asset management and maintenance plans. This unit is located in fourth year as it is applied to complex engineering projects developed over the course of your study.
Aims
The aim of this unit is to identify and apply concepts of maintenance, asset management, evaluation and reliability to create effective maintenance strategies for engineering plant and equipment.
Objectives
On completion of this unit, you should be able to:
1. Apply the life cycle management tools, including maintenance strategies and management, planning and logistic techniques to engineering assets.
2. Apply asset, risk management and reliability concepts to solve complex engineering problems.
3. Assess cause of failure and undertake Failure Mode Effect and Criticality Analysis (FMECA).
4. Evaluate an engineering component or system and recommend an appropriate asset management/maintenance strategy.
Content
The following topics will be covered:
- Overview of engineering asset management concepts and reliability theory.
- Maintenance vision, mission, organisation, responsibilities and tasks, planning and control
- Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM);
- Availability; Maintainability;
- Repair pools; Spare parts inventory management; Cost of Downtime; Downtime reduction; Maintenance project planning; hutdowns/turnarounds; Performance measures; Computer based maintenance management systems; Total Productive Maintenance (TPM);
- Condition monitoring technology and management; Performance measures; Risk management; Health and safety issues in asset management
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
Total No. Hours: 3
Lecture/Tutorial: 3 hours
Lectures/tutorials cover the main concepts with examples of applications to work through collaboratively in class to apply strategies (informal group work), including whole of class discussion of results. The main learning and teaching approach is to integrate theory with practice collaboratively in groups in real contexts.
Assessment
Assessment for this unit includes an individual assessment, a two part quiz and a final examination.You will get feedback on mini project/problem solving tasks in lectures/tutorials throughout the semester. For the group project report, you will get oral feedback during lectorials and written feedback on completion. For the exam, oral and/or written feedback is available on request after the exam.
Assessment name:
Final Exam
Description:
You are required to solve problems on all of the topics covered in this unit.
Relates to objectives:
1, 2, 3, 4
Weight:
60%
Internal or external:
Internal
Group or individual:
Individual
Due date:
Examination period
Assessment name:
Problem Solving Task
Description:
A series of problems dealing with topics covered in the unit which are more time-intensive than exam problems. Students are expected to work together to solve the problems but the final write-up should be done individually.
Relates to objectives:
1, 2, 3, 4
Weight:
25%
Internal or external:
Internal
Group or individual:
Group with Individual Component
Due date:
Week 12
Assessment name:
Two-part Quiz
Description:
A quiz will assess your mastery of the concepts introduced in lecture. Each quiz part will be handed out at two different points of the semester.
Due Date: Each part is due 48 hours after assignment in the tutorial.
Relates to objectives:
1, 2, 3, 4
Weight:
15%
Internal or external:
Internal
Group or individual:
Group
Due date:
see description
Academic Honesty
QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.
A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.
Resource materials
No: 1
Type: text
Author: Beasley, M
Title: Reliability for Engineers
Year: 1991
Publisher: Macmillan Press
Edition:
No: 2
Type: Reference
Author: Tobias, P.A. and Trindade, D.C.
Title: Applied Reliability
Year: 2012
Publisher: CRC Press
Edition:
No: 3
Type: Reference
Author: Ramakumar, R.
Title: Engineering Reliability: Fundamentals and Applications
Year: 1993
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Edition:
Risk assessment statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.
Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.
Last modified: 26-Feb-2013
