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436-446 Advanced Work Design and Reliability | |
Credit Points | 7.1 |
Coordinator | Dr A. J. R. Smith |
Prerequisites | 436-346 Work Organisation and Design and 436-204 Engineering Economics and Statistics or equivalent |
Semester | 2 |
Contact | 22 lectures and 14 tutorials |
Subject Description | On completion, students should; understand in detail problems of workplace design, industrial accidents, task analysis and the working environment (including lighting, thermal effects and noise); have developed a consciousness for the effective design of workplaces for the human operator; understand the various approaches to the management of reliability; and be able to perform basic reliability analyses. Topics covered include; task/activity analysis methods in industry: allocation of tasks to humans and machines. The work environment: effect on task performance. Anthropometry of workplaces. Robots in industry: comparison with human performance. Allocation of tasks. Safety issues. Reliability and maintenance management: failure determination and measures; failure frequency distributions; analysis for optimal maintenance organisation. Design and organisation for humans to improve availability. |
Assessment | One examination not exceeding three-hours at the end of semester, and assignments of no more than 12 pages |
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