220-252 Improving Asset Reliability

Students are introduced to maintenance principles and philosophies employed in the work place, and apply tools and methods to predict failure. Students will be able to select a maintenance approach and the steps involved in implementing a maintenance plan and evaluate its effectiveness.

Generic Skills

• Develop time management skills with regard to organising work loads and submitting assignments;

• Effectively investigate a problem and provide solutions;

• Build initiative through self-directed studies and tasks;

• Develop the capacity to effectively and efficiently analyse problems and develop solutions.

The subject covers the areas of:

• Maintenance strategies and systems;

• Maintenance techniques;

• Improving maintenance performance-tools and measurements;

• Predictive maintenance-tools and techniques;

• Maintenance planning and scheduling;

• Developing and implementing a reliability improvement program.

A written assignment of up to 2,000 words (55%) and 6 Workbook self-directed projects/activities (45% total).