Aim - To develop knowledge and skills on process equipment maintenance techniques.
Objectives
- Appreciate maintenance objectives and evaluate various maintenance strategies for process plant application.
- Critically analyze the functions of preventive maintenance and develop necessary planning and scheduling and control of preventive.
- Understand the advanced concepts such as RCM and TPM techniques and advantages for a company employing them.
A. Knowledge and understanding of the topic
- Demonstrate knowledge of acquisition of information
- Demonstrate appropriate application of module knowledge
- Demonstrate wider reading and comprehension of topic
B. Application and analysis of the topic (Module specific Skill)
- Critically analyze the functions of maintenance, necessary approach and study the maintenance activities adopted.
- Process equipment maintenance techniques.
C. The structure in terms of logic and coherence
Submissions should have a clear start and a clear end. Information within submissions should also be logical and well grouped. Report structure, Abstract, Introduction & Referencing, Result Analysis, and Conclusion & Future works.
D. The use of relevant work examples and/or examples gained from further reading
This coursework is an interesting and important part of study as it is proven that application of Process Equipment Maintenance (PEM) techniques to maintenance of equipment. It is suggested to read through some literatures especially those listed below and make a fair attempt to solve the questions.
These reading lists are not exhaustive and candidates are encouraged to read further and reference at the end of the course work using Harvard style of referencing.
Course Work Description:
Maintenance plays a very important role in all kind of manufacturing industries. Each maintenance has its characteristics, importance and drawbacks. Performance of a machine, depends on the type of maintenance strategies employed on it. Machines used in industries need proper maintenance because failure of machine may cause the production loss. Maintenance technique may vary from one machine to another machine because of the various conflicting factors like safety, cost, customer satisfaction etc. Factors affecting machines performance need to identify and control. Use of inappropriate maintenance plan may increase the maintenance cost. Increase in maintenance cost will increase the production cost. Selection of a maintenance approach to a particular machine or group of machines is a problem of decision making and it is always a challenging task for maintenance Manager/Engineer.
Each student will be assigned with a research paper from a reputed journal and is expected to critically evaluate while covering the following task:
a. Problems that has been addressed
b. Maintenance methodology/concepts that has been adopted
c. Critical analysis on maintenance approach
d. Implementation of statistical tools
e. Conclusion and recommendation made by the authors.
Article - Developing a Model of Equipment Maintenance and Repair Process at Service Repair Company Using Agent-Based Approach V.V. Panteleev, V.A. Kamaev, A.V. Kizim
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